January 2018 | Lavender Chocolate | KCK Soapery

With Valentine's Day in the horizon, I thought of pairing colors and scents.

Lavender essential oil and Chocolate Lover's fragrance oil with lavender mica and brown mica for colors.

Ingredients are my usual Coconut oil, Olive oil, Rice Bran oil, Palm oil, Mango butter, and Castor oil.   Divided the soap batter for both colors with a little white leftover.  Added some colloidal oatmeal, just because I felt the need to add something more and colloidal oatmeal is good for the skin and I have some available.

 Poured the brown batter and poured a little uneven layer of white leftover in the middle layer.

Dropped the lavender batter by the spoonfuls.

Textured the top with the spoon and drizzled some lavender buds on top.

Out of the mold.

Cut and ready to join you in your shower or bath.

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September 2017 | Chocolate Lovers | KCK Soapery

Fragranced with Chocolate Lovers, a scent described as a mixture of lemon, orange, bergamot and mandarin, lily of the valley and coriander with notes of sweet chocolate, warm vanilla, and musk. 

Inspired by the name of the fragrance oil, I decided to tweak with my recipe and incorporate cocoa butter.  This recipe includes Olive Oil, Palm Oil, Coconut Oil, Castor Oil, and Cocoa Butter.

Since this fragrance oil will discolor the soap to some shade of brown I decided to use that discoloration as the main color of the soap and made swirls of white using titanium dioxide and a combination of red and brown mica for the second color.

Dropped both white and the red brown colors into the main batter.

Used a chopstick to make a diagonal design on the top.

Off the mold.

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December 2014 | Chocolate Dipped Fruit | KCK Soapery

 

The hubby came up with the name for this batch and it is spot on.  This batch is a blend of the "Sex in the Shower" which is a juicy blend of fruits and "Chocolate Lover's" fragrance oil.  Ingredients include Olive Oil, Coconut Oil, Palm Oil, Castor Oil, Shea Butter and Mango Butter. 

 

 

Just like the "Heart Swirt" from the previous post, I unmolded this batch two days after it was made and it came out nicely.

 

 

A friend came to watch me do this batch.  I decided to make the swirl less complicated, so we can continue chatting as I pour the batter into the mold.  The three colors  (white from titanium dioxide, black from activated charcoal and red oxide) were poured alternately.  Since both Sex in the Shower and Chocolate Lover contains Vanillin I did not add any fragrance oil to the white soap batter.

 

 

Happy Soaping!

November 2014 | Heart Cupcakes | KCK Soapery

Five oil and two butter recipe.  My first batch of soap after almost two weeks.  Got a crazy October this year.

 

 

Made the little hearts using melt and pour soap base. 

 

 

Ingredients for the cold process soap include Coconut oil, Palm oil, Olive oil, Rice Bran oil, Castor oil, Cocoa butter and Mango butter.

 

 

The black was colored using activated charcoal and the white with titanium dioxide.

 

 

The black was fragranced with Chocolate Lover's blended with Butt Naked and the white part was with China Rain fragrance oil.

 

 

Frosting texture was a little on the soft side.  Most held up the spiked tip though.

 

 

Topped the frosting with the hearts.

 

 

The hearts stayed where I placed them and did not melt into the soap batter.  I was worried about the hearts melting during the saponification process since they were so small.  But they held up.

 

 

The leftover batters were poured into the regular soap loaf mold.

 

 

The frosting and the hearts behaved just as good as in the mini cupcakes.

 

 

The black was not as black as I wanted.  I hope it darkens as it cures since the fragrance oils used contain vanillin.

 

Happy Soaping!



October 2014 | Chocolate Lover's Cupcake Soap | KCK Soapery

 

These cupcake soaps were scented with Chocolate Lover's fragrance oil and sprinkled with iridescent sparkles.

 

 

The above and below pictures showed the original vision for these project. 

 

 

 

After a few hours of the saponification process.  I lost the creamy color of the frosting.  I had hoped for the color to changed to a very light creamy brown and the cupcake part to go even more darker as the soap cures.

 

 

Overall, I think the cupcakes and the frosting looks good enough to eat and that was what my daughter said when I showed her the finished product.

 

I don't have a video of this batch but had made a cupcake episode a while back. Please click KCKsoaps  and enjoy the youtube videos I had made so far.



October 2014 | Chocolate Lavender | KCK Soapery

 

Made this batch on Sunday, I sliced a bar off yesterday (Monday) but had to stop since the loaf was too soft.  I cut the rest of the loaf today (Tuesday) just because I am starting to get impatient.  But it was still a little on the soft side.

 

 

Ingredients were my usual Coconut oil, Olive Oil, Rice Bran Oil, Palm Oil, Mango Butter and Castor Oil.  I have been playing with the amount of each of the different oils.  This particular recipe turned out to be the softest of them all. 

 

 

Skin loving additives added were Tussah silk and white kaolin clay. 

 

 

The texture of the soap batter was just perfect for piping.  The chocolate brown layer was fragranced with Chocolate Lover's while the white and purple were scented with lavender essential oil.

 

 

I am happy with the result.  Just have to wait a few more days before I can unmold the little ghosts and snowflakes.