I am excited to announce that I can finally unveil my secret soapy experiment, a.k.a. Soap #7&8
Introducing: Vino, my wine soap [yep, I made soap out of wine!]
If soap is my raison d'être, then wine soap would be my raison d'savonner [that's me, just makin' up French words, my mother will be so proud..] It is the reason I learned how to make soap, and what finally pushed me to get over my irrational fear of lye.
I'm just going to do a quick rundown of how I achieved this as it's getting late and I want to watch an episode of Charmed before bed. First: choose your wine! I chose Cabernet as I understand it is a drier wine - the less sugar the better in wine soapy experiments! Then, you've got to cook out the alcohol, soap and alcohol are not very friendly with each other, as discussed in the beer soap post. The main difference between wine and beer soap is that beer has a less alcohol by volume, so it doesn't take quite as long to cook it out, and the beer doesn't reduce quite the same way wine does. For this experiment I used almost an entire bottle of wine, poured in a large sauté pan (that's the kind with the straight sides - the more surface area, the faster it will reduce) and let it simmer down to about 1-2oz, BIG difference! I wanted to try two different experiments, using ingredients I didn't care about wasting if the whole thing decided to [literally] blow up(the first is CRISCO based, the second Palm - since I want to avoid palm in my soap recipes, I wanted to use it up).
The soap on the left is Coastal Cabernet - I added 1Tb wine concentrate directly to the lye water (watch out, this will turn baby poop green and smell foul). I scented it with an ocean-y fragrance.
The soap on the right is Vino - I added 1Tb wine concentrate to ~1/2 the soap mixture at trace, then did a whisk "swirl." This soap is unscented as I was curious if the wine would impart any scent on the soap at all - it did not.
Of the two I love the look of Vino the best, the whisk gave it some pretty neat swirls in places (like the one in the first pic, just plain awesome!)
Two of each of these bars made their way to California as a Mother's Day present to my wonderful mommy! She loved them, of course :]
And of course my mother wouldn't actually USE the soap, but instead use it as bathroom decor
So Happy Belated Mother's Day, Mom, you are my rock - you support me and my dreams, you keep me level headed, and I miss you every day! [71 days, 18 hours, 46 minutes till I get to see you again!]
Until next time,
Peace·Love·Soap
Introducing: Vino, my wine soap [yep, I made soap out of wine!]
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| Some wine was harmed in the making of this soap |
If soap is my raison d'être, then wine soap would be my raison d'savonner [that's me, just makin' up French words, my mother will be so proud..] It is the reason I learned how to make soap, and what finally pushed me to get over my irrational fear of lye.
I'm just going to do a quick rundown of how I achieved this as it's getting late and I want to watch an episode of Charmed before bed. First: choose your wine! I chose Cabernet as I understand it is a drier wine - the less sugar the better in wine soapy experiments! Then, you've got to cook out the alcohol, soap and alcohol are not very friendly with each other, as discussed in the beer soap post. The main difference between wine and beer soap is that beer has a less alcohol by volume, so it doesn't take quite as long to cook it out, and the beer doesn't reduce quite the same way wine does. For this experiment I used almost an entire bottle of wine, poured in a large sauté pan (that's the kind with the straight sides - the more surface area, the faster it will reduce) and let it simmer down to about 1-2oz, BIG difference! I wanted to try two different experiments, using ingredients I didn't care about wasting if the whole thing decided to [literally] blow up(the first is CRISCO based, the second Palm - since I want to avoid palm in my soap recipes, I wanted to use it up).
The soap on the right is Vino - I added 1Tb wine concentrate to ~1/2 the soap mixture at trace, then did a whisk "swirl." This soap is unscented as I was curious if the wine would impart any scent on the soap at all - it did not.
Of the two I love the look of Vino the best, the whisk gave it some pretty neat swirls in places (like the one in the first pic, just plain awesome!)
Two of each of these bars made their way to California as a Mother's Day present to my wonderful mommy! She loved them, of course :]
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| Notice how nicely it matches the counter! |
Until next time,
Peace·Love·Soap
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