Olive Oil infused soap Down Under

Last fall I had herbs growing in my garden, that I planted just for this..... Soap. In a large jar I placed lemon thyme, rosemary, lavender, spearmint leaves.  I then poured olive oil over all the cuttings, and let it sit all winter I kept it in a cool dark place gave time shake now and then and today, 5 months later, I strained it.  It smells wonderful, like sweet spearmint.  I also love the fact that it's natural. And it was super dark green! After straining it I added my other oils from a recipe I found online for an olive oil soap.  This recipe was simple. Olive, coconut, palm, distill water, sodium hydroxide. I added Shea butter to it also.

Yesterday I visited one of my favourite thrift shops and squeeled with delight when I found two, silicone bread molds. 3$ each! Yahoo! Lucky lucky find.  And look in that photo there, they have ripples, now how soaperiffic is that! Squee! As I was looking at these molds I thought ok the bottom would be the top so I'm going to have to build a soap upside down so to speak. Lol! Then it dawned on me to make a soap "down under".  So what is Australian or New Zeland ish? Eucalyptus for one and I thought a perfect match with the spearmint scent of my infused olive oil. I went through my micas and picked out what I thought would be perfect for a down under tropical soap and looking at them above I am pretty happy with those colours. China jade, green vibrance, gold shimmer, white TD. Blending them in sweet almond oil, I brushed the bottom of the soap mold. Then sprinkled iridescent body safe glitter.  Mixed my oils of infused olive, coconut, palm, shea butter, with distilled water, sodium hydroxide. Adding eucalyptus essential oil only to the white TD portion of the soap batter. Left the other colours naturally scented.  I poured the soap on one side of the mold alternating them.

           Love that gold,shimmer mica in there, 

Then I took a plastic fork and ran that through.  On the top I took the handle of the fork and fanned the soap to look like leaves. I love how that's looking too!

It smells amazing.  I can't wait to cut it up and reveal the inside. The green on here is so beautiful.  Great way to break the monotony of recouping from hand surgery.  I am getting back to normal and to make soap, yah I'm getting better. Come back and check out the results! Thanks for always stopping by my soap kitchen

 Update on this soap it's amazing! Smells beautiful, Looks beautiful! Check it out

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