Tuesday, September 12, 2017

September 2017 | Baby Giveaways | KCK Soapery


Baby giveaways scented with lavender and mint fragrance oil.


Coconut oil, olive oil, rice bran oil, castor oil, palm oil, mango butter, 


Oils and butter with the lye and water solution. As you can see, there is a big difference with the color I produced using tea from the previous post.


I decided to use white and blue for the babies' beds.


Mixed the white to the rest of the batter.


Dropped the blue at different sides and depths of the white batter.


Gave the bowl a little swirl.


Poured  the batter into three different molds.



Laid babies onto their beds.




I am happy with the way they turned out.  I hope the people receiving them will like them too.

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Thursday, September 7, 2017

September 2017 | Chai Tea | KCK Soapery


Scented with Chai Tea - a fragrance described as fabulous aroma of just the right amount of gourmet tea leaves, rich spices, and vanilla soy milk. An NG Original Scent!


The fragrance oil contains vanillin which will cause the soap to discolor to shade of brown.
So I decided to add a darker brown swirl and white. As the soap cures, all the colors above will turn darker.


 Olive oil and rice bran oil in white mixing bowl and melted mango butter, palm oil, and coconut oil in the glass container. I used brewed tea water instead of the regular distilled water for this batch just to continue with the theme of the chai tea fragrance oil.  


This is how it looked like after I poured the lye solution into the oils and butter.


Nice caramel color after mixing.


Poured all of the caramel colored batter as my base.


Alternately poured the white and brown batter at different height so some colors will go deeper into the loaf and some stays drizzled on top.


With the help of a chopstick I did the figure 8 on the top layer from one end all the way to the other side of the mold.


We shall see how the color deepens as they cure.

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Tuesday, September 5, 2017

September 2017 | Kentish Rain | KCK Soapery


This batch was scented with Kentish Rain fragrance oil from Brambleberry.  They described the fragrance as rainy, salty mist green notes made up of basil, green leaf and ozone notes with added notes of muguet lily, rose and jasmine bring out the touch of violet in the blend for sweetness. Our perfumer added bottom notes of Sandalwood and tonka to round out the earthy, coast like feel.


White using titanium dioxide and black using activated charcoal and a blue mica.


My favorite recipe of coconut oil, olive oil, rice bran oil, palm oil, mango butter, and castor oil.


Divided the batter into the small colored cups and two containers for the white.


Poured white for the base.


Blue line in the middle.


Alternately poured black, blue and white on the same middle line.


This was how it looked after I poured most of the colors.  The batter thickened faster than I was expecting.


As usual, I love covering my colors and hide the design.  Just to have something more to look forward to when cutting the loaf.


Sprinkled the leftover colors.


Made random chopstick swirl on the top.


Off the mold the next day.


Since the batter thickened faster than I anticipated, I did not get the effect I was going for.  But this turned out good as well.

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Sunday, September 3, 2017

September 2017 | Mistletoe and Ivy | KCK Soapery




This batch was inspired by it being September, which reminds me that Christmas is just around the corner.   Fragrance oil used was Mistletoe and Ivy which is described as blends of cedar leaf, Siberian fir, English holly, holiday mistletoe, cooling camphor, trailing ivy, sandalwood, vetiver, and frosted musk.


White plastic bowl contained olive oil, rice bran oil and castor oil.  Glass bowl contained melted coconut oil, palm oil, mango butter and lye solution in the small plastic container.


Colors used were green, red and white


I used a cardboard as a divider for the mold.  One side was intentionally made bigger than the other.


After pouring the white base, I alternately poured green and red on the smaller side.


Slowly added the white to balance the amount of soap batter on both sides.


Removing the cardboard.


It was exactly how I intended the soap to look like after cardboard was removed.


Poured all the rest of the soap batter.


Using a chopstick, I drew little circles that cross over the white batter.



The loaf looked the way I envisioned.




It was still a little tacky and did not cut as smoothly as I wanted.  The bars have some rough surfaces where some soap got stuck onto the cutter.

But over all, I am very happy with how the soap turned out.

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Tuesday, August 29, 2017

August 2017 | Lavender Mint | KCK Soapery


My first batch made with the microwave I received as a birthday gift from my family.  I now no longer need to climb up and down the stairs to melt my oils and butters.

These were scented with Lavender and Mint fragrance oil.

Oils used are my usual olive, coconut, rice bran, palm oil, castor oil and mango butter.

Colors are yellow and black using activated charcoal.

Hope you like what you saw and come back for more. We took a lot of pictures on the making but my computer refused to download them. We shall see what tomorrow brings.

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