This in-the-pot swirl is becoming a favorite swirl technique. The color pattern is different everytime. Every bar is different yet similar.
Ingredients Olive Oil, Coconut Oil, Palm Oil, Castor Oil, Shea Butter and Mango Butter. Gingered Bergamot fragrance oil described as an exotic fragrance with citrus top notes of bergamot surrounded with nuances of freshly ground ginger combined with notes of sandalwood, cedar, Indian patchouli, and sweet basil.
Colors used were liquid pink, yellow, green and white titanium dioxide.
As always, I covered the in-the-pot swirl with white batter and top the soap with mantra swirl.
This week's cold process soap is loaded with skin loving oils, butters and contains Lavender essential oil and Tea Tree essential oil. This was made for a friend's daughter. I definitely hope her skin will love this soap recipe.
Ingredients include Coconut Oil, Palm Kernel Flakes, Olive Oil, Hemp Seed Oil, Shea Butter, Mango Butter and Castor Oil. I also added activated charcoal, colloidal oatmeal, lavender flowers and essential oils of Lavender and Tea Tree for more skin benefits.
Activated charcoal mixed in with the oils and butters.
Added some lavender flowers for some exfoliation.
After pouring the soap batter into the mold. I was contemplating leaving it
just like this.
But of course, I had to give it some texture. So I did a little spoon swirl.
Added more of the lavender flowers for some color.
I allowed the soap to settle for a few days before cutting. Some of the flowers came off the top of the soap. I sure hope this recipe would just be perfect for her needs. Thank you "J" for giving me the opportunity to research and learn more about soap ingredients.
Presenting my first soap after a two week hiatus. Inspired by the coming Saint Patrick's Day. This is my version of a Leprechaun's Lair.
I used teal, green shimmer and a golden yellow for my colors. Fragranced with "Oatmeal Stout" fragrance oil. Was thinking of making another beer soap, but I wanted to see how the fragrance oil will behave with water first. It did thicken a bit but manageable enough that I was able to do the "in-the-pot" swirl with it. I was hoping for the Irish hubby to be reminded with beer upon smelling this but he said it smells like "Cinnamon".
Of course with Leprechauns in mind, I have to make some golden balls as well.
These were made with "melt and pour" soap and they came out just perfect.
Oils and butters with the colorants. Oils included in this new basic recipe I concocted and love, Olive Oil, Coconut Oil, Palm Oil, Castor Oil, Shea Butter and Mango Butter. The green and teal ended up looking the same or maybe the fragrance oil morphed the color since the final product did not have both shades of green.
After pouring the soap batter. You can still see a lot of the white.
Before cutting, most of the white has morphed to brown.
I think the batch turned out ok considering that it has been two weeks since I last made a handmade soap made from scratch. Will be observing for more morphing of colors in the next few days.
Happy Chinese New Year! Presenting a batch I made a couple of weeks ago. The colors kept on morphing which was what I was hoping for, now it finally stopped changing so here goes:
This is my new basic recipe, it includes Coconut Oil, Palm Oil, Olive Oil, Castor Oil, Shea Butter and Mango Butter.
Used the fragrance oil "Chocolate Lovers" and because of its high vanillin content it should eventually darken.
Activated charcoal was used for the black.
This was how the soap looked after pouring and piping.
Leftover batter.
Before removing the cupcake wrappers.
After a few weeks of curing.
Noticed the brown?
Although I liked how the brown darkens. I would have love the black to darken even more. Instead, the black soap developed ash and since it has stopped morphing, this is how it would be. I sure hope you like what you saw.
The helix is not as apparent as I wanted but I like how it looked. I used titanium dioxide for the white, activated charcoal for black and a deep purple. This batch was fragrance with Bergamot and Tarragon.
Ingredients include Olive Oil, Coconut Oil, Palm Oil, Castor Oil, Shea Butter and Mango Butter.
These fun figures were inspired by a facebook inquiry I received. A mom mentioned that her kid is very sensitive to commercial soaps and would like to know if I can make fun soaps for kids. These were fragranced with Bergamot and Tarragon fragrance oil. I can add color to make them more fun.
Ingredients include Olive Oil, Coconut Oil, Palm Oil, Castor Oil, Shea Butter and Mango Butter.
I made a few cold process soaps in different simple molds but not with intricate designs. These did came out intact. The only difference I noticed were the back of the figures. They were not as smooth as the glycerin melt and pour soaps.
These are the backs and you can see the last pours are a little elevated and not as flat. Maybe I can pour the batter earlier when they are still more liquid and not as thick for the next batch. We shall see.
Thank you for your interests. If you want me to try something, please don't hesitate to let me know. I love the challenge and it would give me such pleasure to try new things and give you fun, skin loving soaps.
This batch is for a friend who asked me to make a lavender essential oil soap for her.
I added a hint of mint into the mix.
As I was going through my facebook notifications, a soaping group posted a picture of a swirl I haven't tried. So attached to this post is a video of my attempt.
Colors used were lavender, yellow, pink, blue and white.
I almost got the technique, will need to pour the colored soap batter thinner next time. Above picture was taken right after I swirled the top. It's wet soap. Ingredients include Coconut Oil, Olive Oil, Rice Bran Oil, Mango Butter, Shea Butter, Palm Oil and Castor Oil.
Above is picture three days after, dry enough to remove from the mold. Colors remained true to how it was when poured.
