One more to Unveil!

Here are all three. the other milk carton standing tall looks good and now we are ready to cut the bars! Stay tuned on how to do that.

For my second try I am pretty happy with the result. I have desire to make more and perfect my soaps so eventually I can market them!!! Craft fairs and Farmers market here we come!

More Unwrappimg

Here is the small milk container looks rough on the edges but thats part of it. I'm excited!

Unwrapping of the LOVE SOAP!

This is the big one came out of my 3 lb wood mold looks pretty good!

Love Soap....Its in the mold!

Okay so after blending and mixing here it is poured into the molds. My friend Sandy from Little Meadows Sheep Farm, told me a good thing to use as a mold are empty milk containers, they are waxed and hold soap well so I used those too!

And does this soap smell like a winner! Much better then the first batch I made.. I covered the molds with plastic food wrap and then covered with nice buble wrap to keep them warm they have to sleep now for a good 24 hours. I can't wait to open them up! made my house smell so good too!

Love Soap Cont'd

Here is the stick blender. I got mine at Canadian Tire and the box said "Stainless Steel Blades" Gotta have one! This makes life easy.

Back to Recipe on Love Soap!

We left off making sure your lye and and oils reach the same temperatures. While I was waiting I got my molds ready. I used my new wooden soap mold and lined it with the waxed freezer paper.

Made sure I had my stick blender ready and plugged in and my patchouli oil to mix in.

When the oil and lye reached a hundred degrees I poured the lye slowly into the oils. You will se it turn color right away. Place your stick blender into the mix and then turn it on to blend. This recipe traced real quick, Trace occurs when the oils and lye are blended to turn your recipe into a pudding like mix. When you take your blender and pull it out the soap should stick to the blender and the leave trace marks on top of your soap. At this stage I added the 4 ounces of patchouli and blended it into the soap. It was ready to pour into the mold. Process time 1.5 hours

Patchouli Love Soap!

After my first batch of soap turned out badly...I refuse to give up! I am still scanning the net and books that I've purchased and decided to give Patchouli LOVE SOAP a try. Book by Sandy Maine, I carry it around like a bible. I love this book! its called. "The Soap Book" Simple Herbal Recipes. Its easy to follow. I found a great Canadian Company "Saffire Blue" http://www.saffireblue.ca/ and have been ordering from them. This recipe was real simple as follows:

24 ounces olive oil

24 ounces coconut oil

38 ounces vegetable shortening (Crisco)

12 ounces sodium hydroxide (lye)

12 ounces distilled water

4 ounces patchouli Essential Oil

(and by the way I ordered myself a new wooden soap mold that comes apart and got the proper freezer paper for lining the mold)

The first thing I did was get my work space ready, I lined my counter with a large garbage bag, got my pots ready, scale, stick blender, measuring cups and spoons my oils at the ready.

Take the scale put your measuring container on it and tare to zero so you are only measuring the weight of the oils. add your oilve oil and measure out 24 ounces, put the olive oil aside.

Next measure your 24 ounces coconut oil, remember to tare the scale to zero, add that to your stainless steel pot, and then again same thing for your Crisco Oil, tare to zero measure out 38 oz and add to the stainless pot with the coconut oil. At a medium high heat on the stove start to melt these oils together.

SAFETY! are you wearing your robber gloves and goggles?? put them on!

While the oils are melting, make your lye solution. Measure out on your scale 12 ounces sodium hydroxide, remembering to tare to zero first, put aside. Measure 32 ounces of distilled water, taring to zero, put your water in your other stainless steel pot and in a well ventillated area take your sodium hydroxide and slowly add to the water, never the other way around as it will erupt like a volcano! and stir until the lye is mixed well into the water. You will notice the fumes and the heat rising. Now check your oils on the stove. Don't ever leave them alone too long.

When your oils on the stove have melted to clear take off the heat and add your olive oil that you have set aside. Allow your oils to cool to 100 degrees F you can check your temperture with a candy thermometer. Your oils and lye need to be at the same temperature to mix together.

Sweet Almond Oil Oatmeal Bars

Here is the first batch of soap. pretty rough looking but a start.

First Soap Batch Ever!

Well its been awhile since I blogged! I made a couple of batches of Sweet Almond Oil and Oatmeal. these were made with Olive, Canola, Safflower Oil and blended with ground Oatmeal which is supposed to be good for your skin and I added sweet almond oil which is supposed to skin moisturizing. I have to say they turned out but not too happy with the result. I didn't line my mould properly and had trouble taking it out so the bars look a little rough. and I ended up using the wrong type of freezer paper and had trouble removing the soap. I was swearing at the end of it all. I have 40 bars that I'm just going to use up myself and throw in for gifts to people. I don't think I will be able to sell any of these.