Soap I Have Made;

Okay, so this post is going to be mostly pictures [but that's the best part of soap blogs, right?] but you are not allowed to judge too harshly as these are literally ALL the soaps I have made in my whole life.

Starting with my first soap EVER, which is okay as far as first soaps ever go.

My First Soap

TADA! It's super tiny because I had NO idea how much soap 1lb of oils would make [not much] and put it in the large mold I had bought [which I haven't used since by the  by]. Those lovely weird swirlies are, I am told, glycerin swirls and occur sometimes in soap - perfectly normal, perfectly safe. They've become far less noticeable as they've cured.  This soap is 30% good ol' fashioned CRISCO, a whopping 35% Coconut, and 35% rosemary infused olive oil. I also added a bit of tee tree oil.

That same night I made soap #2

Pumpkin Pie

I call this soap Pumpkin Pie because I'm so creative that way. It's [significantly less] coconut, Crisco, and grapeseed oil with pureed pumpkin [out of a can] added to a portion of the soap at trace, along with pumpkin pie spice - and topped with more pumpkin pie spice. It smelled deliciously pumpkin-y for a few days but has since 1 - lost it's pretty orange-ness and 2 - lost it's yummy smell

Soap #3 I started to get a bit more confident

Sea Breeze salt bars

Yep, my third soap ever was a salt bar - I just couldn't bare to keep making crisco soap when the world of soaping offered so many possibilities [I did mention I decided to make soap in the first place 'cause I learned it could be made out of wine]. This one is 100% coconut oil, supperfatted to 20%, about 14oz of salt [by weight] to a one pound of oils recipe. I think I added too much salt because, even though I cut an hour and a half after pour it still came out pretty crumbly [and is still crumbling apart at the bottom - rebatch? maybe!]

Soap #4

Cafe Mocha

I call this one Cafe Mocha, I loved it right away, but my love has faded - maybe once I start using it I will love it again, then again maybe I won't. This one smelled HEAVENLY upon cutting. Just like a delicious mocha. Coffee grounds color the lighter side, while cocoa powder was added to the darker half. I could not stop smelling it! Now it smells vaguely of coffee, but it could be the whole coffee beans on top that I'm smelling.

Soap #5 & #6

Lemon Meringue/Beach Daisies

That's lemon meringue on top, not exactly what I was going for [and actually was bright orange in the mold] I used lemon peel powder and was hoping it would impart some sort of smell into the soap - nope, just brown-y yellow. I colored too much of it yellow, too. It was supposed to look like lemon meringue pie.
Beach daisies [named for the fragrance oil used] was just annoying at first! The fragrance I used accelerated the hell out of the soap, had a little ricing happening. Attempted a swirl anyway, thought it had worked until I got to the bottom of the pot and a big gloppy mess of the uncolored soap just plopped out. The green was colored with kelp powder and boy did that soap STANK when I first  cut it. It has since calmed WAY down, though. I haven't made up my mind on the kelp powder, but I do know I will NOT be using beach daisies again any time soon.

Soap #7 & #8 were made the same day one right after the other and were fun experiments. As they are a surprise for somebody I will not be talking about them just yet.

And we finally roll around to Soap #9

Cucumber soap fail

FAIL!!!


Until next time...