March 2015 | Lavender and Tea Tree | KCK Soapery

 

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.

Thank you for stopping by!

Glynith



February 2015 | Oatmeal Stout | KCK Soapery

 



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.

 

Thank you for stopping by!

Glynith

 

 



February 2015 | Chocolate Lover | KCK Soapery

 

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.

Thank you for stopping by!

Glynith 

February 2015 | Helix Swirl | KCK Soapery

 

Helix swirl made using a skewer. 

 

 

 

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.

 

 

Happy Soaping!

Glynith

 

 



February 2015 | Cold Process Fun Figures | KCK Soapery

 

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.

Thanks for stopping by!

Glynith 



January 2015 | Lavender Mint | KCK Soapery

 

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.

 

 

Thank you for dropping by!

 

 



January 2015 | Fall In Love | KCK Soapery

 

Another Valentine soap made with Coconut Oil, Olive Oil, Rice Bran Oil, Castor Oil, Mango Butter and Shea Butter.  I did not use Palm Oil for this batch.

 

 

The heart embeds were from my previous post "Love Collection."

 

 

I decided to drop swirl both red and blue colors into a base but changed my mind at the last minute.   I quickly made an improvised divider using some newsletter paper and taped the paper in the middle of the mold.

 

 

I was quite happy with how the paper divider separated the colors.

 

 

Embedded the hearts which moved the red batter a little bit.

 

 

Sprinkled blue jojoba beads to red batter and red jojoba beads to the blue batter.

 

 

Poured the leftover red and blue batter into my oval mold and swirled it with a chopstick.

 

 

Topped the oval soap with red jojoba beads and a golden melt and pour baby.

 

 

Gave this to a friend who is having a baby soon.

 

 

Waited four days before removing from the mold and it came out nicely, no cracks or any part of the soap sticking on the sides of the mold which sometimes happened.

 

 

Some of the bars got a nice silhouette of the embedded hearts while others are more abstract.

 

 

 Hope you enjoy the making of Fall In Love.

 

Thank you very much for stopping by!