Rosemary HP

I decided to do a video of my latest soaping event. Gotta love time lapse.

Next time I'll do a longer one for sure. The soap is strongly scented with rosemary essential oil and the top has been decorated with safflower and calendula petals in moderation. Yellow dock root was infused with the olive oil to give a pink colour. Hopefully they'll pinken up in the next few days. Here are the 'just cut' pics:

I Want To Eat Them...

But I can't *sigh* I am quite happy with the way the bubble wrap effect turned out and the scent reminds me of a gourmet dessert. I shall call these slices of sweet goodness, 'Honey Bee Goode'. It's a fairly appropriate name I think and if you could smell them I'm sure you'd agree. Three months into soaping and it's becoming clear I've caught the soap bug. Now I must make some more soap to wash away this filthy addiction. 

~Ingredients~

• Olive oil
• Coconut oil
• Grapeseed oil
• Shea Butter
• Castor oil
• Cocoa Butter
• Beeswax
• Water
• Lye
• Orris root powder
• Honey
• Sweeet orange E/O 
• Palmarosa E/O
  

Citrus 'C'

Citrusy indeed! By following an online recipe and doing a little bit of subtracting/substituting, I was able to achieve the following results:

Eight 4oz bars of soap slipped easily out of my new plastic un-photogenic mould. The darker areas are (I think) where it hasn't dried as much but if the other bars I've made are anything to go by then the colour will soon even out. No colourings were used and I don't intend to use them at-least not for a long time anyway.  I haven't quite yet decided whether I should stick with the new mould. While it makes cutting so simple and bars of equal measure, I like how the other mould creates unique bars with character. What would you prefer?

~Ingredients~ (in no order)

• Avocado oil
• Castor oil
• Olive oil
• Coconut oil
• Shea butter
• Lye
• Flat Corona
• Orris root powder
• Lemongrass E/O
• Sweet orange E/O
• Palmarosa E/O

Palm Free Guiness

I decided to follow an online soap recipe and chose to use Guiness as the liquid. There are plenty of horror stories of people not using flat beer and I didn't want any lye volcanoes in my kitchen so two days previous, I had heated the Guiness just before boiling point and then stored it in a jar. 

Here is proof that you don't need palm oil to make soap work: 

(I tested a teensy bit)

Ingredients:

• Avocado oil
• Coconut oil
• Castor oil
• Olive oil
• Shea butter
• Flat Guiness
• Lye
• Palmarosa E/O