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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Lavender Tea Soap

 

 

These were made using Yogi Tea infused water, coconut oil, olive oil, palm oil and castor oil.  Fragranced with Lavender 40/42 from Bramble Berry and colored with titanium dioxide for white and deep purple colorant.

 

It all started with a friend tagging me to a facebook post about tea soap.  I finished my yellow cupcakes earlier than expected yesterday and since all the necessary oils were still melted, I decided to continue with this experiment without reading how other soapers do it.

 

 

Above picture is the tea infused water.  I am not sure if it was because of the tea reacting with the lye or I might have done something to this solution that created a lot of bubbles.  Will have to read more about that.

 

I added titanium dioxide to mellow down the dark brown tea water.  Then added more titanium dioxide to the batter that I planned to color white.  Picture above was taken after the soap came out of the oven. 



 

The soaps after it came out of the mold.

 

Soaps below shows the drop swirl results.  I am quite happy with them.  Every bar is different and unique and I like the purple color drop swirled into the white.

 

 

I again have a two part video with this soap due to the fact that  this soap was made in a whim when I found out I still have more time to experiment.  I forgot to get an extra mold out for extra soap batter.