Hand milled soap

My blog is supposed to be about how to make handcrafted soap so I suppose I should write about some things I do.  I have always looked at rebatching soap and never tried it until I had a batch of soap that went wrong.  So instead of throwing it away I hand grated it down into a crock pot and added my missing ingredient.(coconut oil)   I wasn't sure how that was going to turn out so I was skeptical.  I had fun doing this and it was easy and a good arm workout lol.  Here is the result I call it a rock.  I added pumice and pink clay to the mix and voila 

               So cool !!! To the grated soap I added coconut water to the crock pot of grated soap I wasn't sure how much at first so I added it slowly in. Then as it melted I added my coconut then I added in activated charcoal and the pink clay.  When it was melted to like a thick sauce I said it's gotta be ready and I poured it into milk containers ( I love the half pint size ones) they are already waxed lined, I'm repurposing them, and they make a nice squarish bar of soap.  Rustic. 

I let these sit in the molds for almost a week I had to remove them to see the result.  They were pretty soft I thought oh no good but thought maybe if I cut them they will cure faster to get the extra moisture out of them and after two weeks they hardened right up.  Bubbly, soft and scrubby.  I got so excited about this that I'm doing it again with some older bars of soap that I just didn't like and revamping them up.  The new batch is wild blueberry I can't wait to see the result of this one !  

Stay tuned .