Today I did a 3500g mini-masterbatch of oils so I could get a few pending things completed. I don't normally use shea butter in my soap recipe, but decided to use up some that had gone grainy and ended up with almost 20% shea in the recipe. It will be interesting to get user feedback on this pretty significant change from my usual recipe.
Next up was completing an order of Gardner-Mechanic Soap. This is my interpretation of @earlene's Blacksmith Soap, using her borax + pumice mix but with my oil recipe, with sorbitol instead of honey, and without the dual lye. Scented with d-limonene at 1% and Orange 10x EO at 3%, it smells really nice. I soaped hot because I wanted a medium-thick trace to suspend the pumice, so it was a quick batch. Now it is tucked into the boxes with the heating pad underneath.
I wish I had time to get a few more soapy things done, but as they say, tomorrow is another day, Scarlet.
Next up was completing an order of Gardner-Mechanic Soap. This is my interpretation of @earlene's Blacksmith Soap, using her borax + pumice mix but with my oil recipe, with sorbitol instead of honey, and without the dual lye. Scented with d-limonene at 1% and Orange 10x EO at 3%, it smells really nice. I soaped hot because I wanted a medium-thick trace to suspend the pumice, so it was a quick batch. Now it is tucked into the boxes with the heating pad underneath.
I wish I had time to get a few more soapy things done, but as they say, tomorrow is another day, Scarlet.