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August 11, 2015
This week has been a crazy one. We made lots of soap, (two of them were for Amy Warden's Great Cakes Soapworks August soap challenge), entertained guests, made airport runs, chauffeured kids & grandkids.....well you get the drift, just a normal, busy week.
One of our best selling soaps is one we first tried as a small experimental batch; it sold out immediately, as did the second batch. So today we needed to make some more Sea Salt and Rice Flower. We buy this fragrance from +Rustic Escentuals, Their description says it is "a clean, fresh, and spa-like scent. This fragrance has notes of creamy rice flower, citrus peel, cotton blossoms, night-blooming jasmine, azure sky ozone, grey sea salt, bamboo leaves, vanilla bean, and sheer musk."
We used +Rustic Escentuals colorants in this soap: the beautiful Frosty Rose Petal Mica and - to keep the base batter light and bright - Icicle Mica.
We added the Icicle Mica right into the oils before adding the lye/water.
After the addition of the Icicle Mica we stick blended it so it would mix thoroughly throughout the batter.
Since we added Tussah silk to the lye water, we strained it before it went into the soap.
The crock was set on high, and we blended it until we had a heavy trace.
After putting the lid on and letting the batter cook for 30 minutes the soap looked like this. It was a little scary, and we wondered if we hadn't checked on it if it would have volcanoed right out of the pot!
We quickly stirred it down, and let it continue to cook. We both did the zap test
after 45 minutes and the soap was DONE!!!
We are still getting used to 45 minutes...
We love the shorter cooking time
We mixed the Frosty Rose Petal Mica (1/2 tsp.) into 1 tsp. of safflower oil.
Thankfully Alison reminded me to add the fragrance!
Heavenly!!!
We put a few scoops of batter into the Rose Petal colorant.
And this is what it looked like all mixed together; this pink mica is truly a divine color.
Several carefully placed splats of pink mica go into the white portion of the batter.
This is what the mixed batter looked like, a nice soft blended pink and "white."
Into the 18-bar mold went the batter with dividers going in next.
Then it cooled and hardened in the curing room for 24 hours.
On Aug. 12, we removed the soap from the mold and were happy
to see such pretty soap and to inhale its lovely fragrance.
You can see photos of the finished soap below:
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We will let the soap harden and cure for a week, but it is safe to use right now.
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