A friend sent me some wine and of course I didn't notice the bottles at first. My first thoughts were, "Oooh look a soap mould!". So here you can see my latest batch in a mould that used to be a wine presentation case. Gone are the narrow Converse shoe boxes I used for the previous batch. The mould is perfect for many reasons since the dimensions mean easy cutting and there's even a wooden lid to aid insulation. Next time I will no doubt be lining the other side to accommodate another batch.
After my ever increasing awareness stepped up a notch, I felt like I needed to get rid of the rest of the palm oil and did so in this highly conditioning bar of soap. I read of people using beet-root juice as a natural colorant so I gave it a shot expecting 3 tbsp to make pretty raspberry swirls. I did get a slight swirly effect by using 2 pots and thinking I was clever but *sigh* what you see here folks, is no raspberry swirly oh no...
Here is the rosemary and swirls of a different colour, not quite green but certainly not pink. It looks interesting enough and smells very natural, well of course it is vegan after all.
My ingredients for this earthly batch were:
- Palm oil
- Olive oil
- Coconut oil
- Sunflower oil
- Castor oil
- Grapeseed oil
- Rain water (melted snow)
- Lye
- Beetroot Juice (obviously not enough)
- Rosemary
And now to order some more oil excluding palm...
You know, my boyfriend thought that beet juice would make a great colorant. I did ask around, and was told that the color would get lost in the saponification process.
ReplyDeleteSorry. :(