What soapy thing have you done today?

[Lin19687]

I need to clean up buckets this afternoon can't really complain as I use the dishwasher.

 

[earlene]

So far today, I cut, trimmed & photographed soap all before 6:30 am. Then uploaded photos & posted to the Challenge entry thread here and voted at Soap Challenge Club. Now I am catching up on reading forum posts before cleaning some soaping dishes. Then I plan on making another batch of soap. And put away some supplies, I hope.

My WSP delivery is due via UPS today (the one that I got someone else's stuff & they had to re-order) so that'll be fun. I love opening packages. And my planer from Lee Valley is due tomorrow. So more soap beveling tomorrow. I am super excited about that.

But Hubby is off work today & tomorrow, so not sure how much soap related stuff I'll get done with him here. I tend to avoid making soap when he might need to wander through my space to get coffee or a snack, etc.

 

[cmzaha]

I thought about soaping, does that count? Of course it did not happen, since I had to go to the cemetery and finish up getting a plot market and Death Certs that my sister (her dad), did not manage to do. Should tick her off royally that I have the DC's, and I ordered the marker I wanted. Oh well.... Y'all will probably remember this has been since the end of Jan.

 

[Bladesmith]

Wanted to try out some new techniques and new ways to add colorant today.

I think I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Sandalwood Rose fragrance.

Hot processed, as usual.

 

[cmzaha]

Those are gorgeous Bladesmith, you should be proud, and I really like the colors

 

[Marilyn Norgart]

love the color combo Bladesmith!!!

 

[Lin19687]

NONE. I did think about it but all I managed to do was the dishwasher full of soap buckets.......... oh wait I think that counts

 

[Zany_in_CO]

I tend to avoid making soap when he might need to wander through my space to get coffee or a snack, etc.

LOL Same here. Doncha hate that?! Can't live with 'em; can't live without 'em. But why oh why can't they be more like us? I wouldn't wander through your space (or his, for that matter) when you're into your soap zone... wouldn't even consider it.

 

[Zany_in_CO]

Wanted to try out some new techniques and new ways to add colorant today.

Well done! Be sure to post this in the Photo Gallery too -- to share with all SMF members and for future reference. It will just get buried forever in this thread.

 

[Zany_in_CO]

Soaping Goal for the Day: Correct the oopsie I posted on the Gripes Thread. In a "senior moment" of lapsed concentration, I poured melted coconut oil into an opened, half empty, bottle of olive oil sitting next to the scale instead of back into its container. I wrote down the net weight of the CO. Now I have to calculate the weight of the OO before figuring out what I'm going to do with it. Then it will be "cross-fingers time" to see if the formula works.

It didn't take long to figure out that my Oopsie Oil contained 51% CO and 49% OO. I spent a couple of days ruminating about what to make with it. Of course, the easiest thing would have been to make LS. But noooo I couldn't make it easy on myself.

I really wanted to try a couple of variations on the No Slime Castile. I was able to fomulate 64 oz of the recipe by simply adding a lot more OO, and some castor. Then I divided the batch into two 32 oz. batches -- one made with citric acid, and one made with comfrey infused sunflower oil -- to test my theory that seawater or brine leaches natural colorants out of the finished soap.

Sounds simple enough, but it's been ages since I made hard soap. My daddy was a carpenter and one of the life lessons he taught me was "measure twice; saw once." So there was a whole lotta measuring going on -- and doin' the math made my head hurt! LOL But the soaps got made. Can't help but wonder what the dawn will bring...

 

[Dawni]

I have 4 colored clays I want to use in my next experiments, thinking of the banana soap I mentioned I wanted to try, with the yellow kaolin I have. If I have time I might do that today..

Wanted to try out some new techniques and new ways to add colorant today.

I think I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Sandalwood Rose fragrance.

Hot processed, as usual.

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Lovely! I love seeing pretty HP soap

 

[KiwiMoose]

Thanks Lin19687 I appreciate your post. I did use a very small % but I will do some research and make sure I feel safe with this before letting her have it for her dog. I wouldn’t want to be responsible if something bad happened. Thanks again for your input.:

Hi Heidi,
I also make a neem oil soap for my doggies - and I did avoid any mint EOs after doing a bit of research. I also don't use Tea Tree because there seems to be two opposing camps on using that with dogs too. I ended up using a blend of: Sweet orange, Cedarwood, Bergamot and May Chang. The thing is - it's very easy to find a lot of conflicting information about any EO. I think, as you say, if you are blending oils there will only be a small amount of any one, so you can only try. I've seen commercially made dog soap with Tea Tree in it, and they sell tons!

 

[KiwiMoose]

Woot! Aloe and Spirulina soap in the mould.

 

[DWinMadison]

Packaged and sold every single shave soap I have as Father’s Day gifts in about 30 minutes. The boxes I ordered fit perfectly for the soap, brush and a lagniappe bar of sandalwood, goat’s milk soap that I never intended to sell anyway.

 

[Lin19687]

Opened up windows the other day to let some light in as I reorganized the soaps on the rack. Opened up the window in DS room so his Lizard would also get some sun ... she did NOT like it.

 

[msunnerstood]

Ok these are NOT cleaned up yet. I still have to plane and bevel these but im really digging how the coloring turned out. This is Activated charcoal soap with tea tree and lemon oil.

 

[Zany_in_CO]

AWESOME!

 

[Hawksquill]

I was able to soap for the first time in ages today! I decided to try a few new things: tweaked my base recipe a bit (including adding borage oil!), and tried using colorants to create an ombre effect - I used orange EO, paprika, and cayenne to create layers of orange.

One thing I struggled with was making the colors distinct enough. I had originally planned to add orange EO to all 3 layers, paprika to the middle layer, and twice the paprika to the darkest layer. But the middle and darkest layer looked identical to me, and I didn't want the colors to blend too much, so I added a few shakes of paprika to the darkest layer to hopefully make it distinct.

It's insulated now, and I'm really looking forward to seeing how it turns out!

 

[TAS]

Ok these are NOT cleaned up yet. I still have to plane and bevel these but im really digging how the coloring turned out. This is Activated charcoal soap with tea tree and lemon oil.

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Looks like a gemstone - gorgeous.

 

[RobinRogers]

I cut a couple of beauties, Lemon Cake and Dogwood Ginger