March 2020 | Gentle Hemp and Shea Soap | KCK Soapery

This batch was inspired by a post recommended by Pinterest.  Here is the link with recipe from Humblebeeandme.  I made mine simple without the white line and tweaked the recipe a little since I don't have tallow on hand.

My recipe include the following:

 Hemp seed oil which is the green colored oil, olive oil, and for my solid oils, I used shea butter, coconut oil, and palm oil.  I also added rosemary and peppermint essential oil for scent!

I just love the natural avocado-like color this soap end up being.

Here is the video of the making of gentle hemp and shea soap.  

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Enjoy and Stay Healthy everyone!

March 2020 | Pure Goat's Milk Soap | KCK Soapery

My First Pure Goat's Milk Soap - No water used

Jackie's First Handmade Soap

My brave friend Jackie really wanted to learn how to make handmade soap for a while now.  She finally decided to do it when her goat "Snoopy" started producing milk! We already have this date scheduled before the coronavirus self quarantine was imposed.  So we continued with the session but did it online through facetime instead of being in our houses where kids abound and with both of us being medical laboratory scientists.  Just for precaution!

Congratulations, Jackie, for making your first handmade soap using only goat's milk for liquid. 

Meet "Snoopy"! She absolutely likes snooping. Jackie said "it is because she is always checking my sleeves for mysteries.  May have treats, maybe not.  She doesn't know but she checks them".

Thank you very much, Jackie, for Snoopy's milk.  I get to try doing all goat's milk soap without investing too much on it.

This is our set-up. This is an ice water bath to prevent the sugars in the milk from scorching.  It is always better to use cold almost slushy or even frozen milk with this recipe so the milk don't get too hot when you add the lye.  Usually I only do half milk or cream and let the lye dissolved in water first and then allow it to cool down before adding the milk/cream.  This is my first full goat's milk and no water is being added to this batch.

Jackie decided to incorporate oatmeal and poppy seed to her batch.

I kept mine plain.

We did not use any fragrance or essential oils for this batch.  This batch only included olive oil, coconut oil, goat's milk, and lye.  As you can see in the above pictures, I kept my soap plain and Jackie decided to add oatmeal and poppy seed to hers to give that pretty texture.

While the moms were making cold process goat's milk soap.  Jackie's kids also made melt and pour soap.  Look at how cute they turned out.  They used orange/lemon zest and food coloring to add color and texture to the final product.

Here is the video of our goat's milk soap making using facetime session.  Hopefully we can do this side by side next time!

Enjoy!!!

March 2020 | Shave Camo | KCK Soapery

The hubby is missing my camo designed soap so I made this batch for him.  I used the same usual recipe.

Shave and a hair cut fragrance oil is described as a mix of lemon, bergamot, cool mint, lavender, green accord, sandalwood, cedar wood, amber, and musk.  It smells just like walking in to a barbershop!

Enjoy!

March 2020 | Mother's Love | KCK Soapery

This just reflects our school color!

Yellow mica, black activated charcoal, and white titanium dioxide (using the same oils).

Mother's Love fragrance oil is a slightly sweet and innocent scent that includes a blend of peonies, hyacinth, day lilies, apple blossoms, and soft bergamot.

Enjoy!!!

March 2020 | Fresh Corona | KCK Soapery

A friend suggested a corona virus inspired soap.  This is what I came up with.  

Colors used were:

- yellow, orange and pink mica for bright and vibrant corona virus

- white, titanium dioxide for, hopefully, peace soon

- black for all the chaos spreading around the world.

I used "Fresh Linen" fragrance oil which is a clean accord with soft subtle back notes of powder and musk.  Notes include jasmine, lilac, peony, Egyptian musk and French vanilla.

Enjoy!

March 2020 | Kentish Rain | KCK Soapery

My vision for this batch was a rain drop in the middle but the soap batter got hard fast and did not behave the way I needed it to give me the look I wanted.  It still has a unique look which I like very much though.

Fragrance oil used is described as a fresh and earthy mix of basil, green leaf, ozone, lily, rose, 

jasmine, violet, sandalwood, and tonka bean.

Same usual recipe olive oil, coconut oil, palm oil, shea butter, castor oil, and mango butter.

Activated charcoal for black, titanium dioxide for white, and blue mica.

My camera ran out of memory in the middle of my designing. You still get to see most of the pouring though.

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March 2020 | Cool Water | KCK Soapery

Cool Water fragrance oil used in this batch is a combination of lavender, jasmine, oakmoss, musk, and sandalwood; Scent is Musky citrus, with light florals.

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Enjoy the video below: