Deep Purple Memories Part II

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This is the second time we've made this popular soap. It evolved from a soap challenge we had entered to create a spinning swirl (no, this is not the soap we entered, and no, we didn't win).

We made up our own blend of essential oils; lavender, litsea cubeba, and clove bud.  It's a wonderful combination, kind of exotic but soft at the same time.  The one thing we learned (added to a long list of things we've learned) on that first batch is that clove bud essential oil causes soap to thicken pretty quickly.  That caught us by surprise.  In this case, accelerated batter wasn't in our favor because we needed loose batter to create a spinning swirl.  We definitely didn't have a loose batter, and our planned spinning swirl definitely didn't spin.

Even though the swirl didn't work as we had hoped, this soap was gorgeous and also very popular, so we made it again - in mid September to be exact.

Rather than try and explain what happened, and what didn't happen when we made this soap, it's easier to just show you the video we made of the first batch. Below is the video from the 1st time we made the soap (in case you're interested).

Below are final shots of batch number 2,  all lined up and ready to go.
The smell is absolutely amazing!

Deep Purple Memories is available though this link to our Etsy Store

Deep Purple Memories

While trying to think up a name we concentrated on the colors and finally came up with the title of a song from the sixties called Deep Purple, which color-wise totally fits this soap. Do you remember this song? It was our inspiration!

Deep Purple Memories cold process soap.