Three More Soaps

Nov
4

I’ve been doing a lot of playing with soaps in the past couple of weeks. Here are three more. The first one is a cherry-scented soap. I took out a small portion of the soap mixture after it came to trace and mixed in red soap coloring.
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Then I layered part of the plain soap mixture in the mold.
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I wanted random streaks of red through the soap, so I drizzled in some of the red.
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And more of the plain.
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And more of the red.
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And so on, until all the soap was in the mold.
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And this is the result.
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Then I made a soap with lemon pound cake fragrance, which was the base of my inspiration for how I wanted the soap to look–reminiscent of a pound cake. I divided the soap mixture in two parts. The bigger part of the soap mixture, I didn’t use any soap coloring (though it was colored some by the fragrance oil itself–some fragrance or essential oils will add color to soap, and some don’t) and I added about a teaspoon of dried lemon peel. I poured that part in the mold, then added some yellow soap coloring to the smaller part and poured that on top. I wanted to make an effect that was like how a loaf cake will rise in the center when it’s baked. Here, the soap is in the mold, tamped down, with a flat top.
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I let the soap sit about five minutes, enough time to start setting and thickening some. Then I used a spoon to mound the soap up toward the middle, to recreate that “risen cake” center effect.
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This is how it came out.
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And then this one–my favorite, really. I think it’s so pretty. It’s a half and half milk soap–meaning, the bottom half of the mixture (to which I added ground oatmeal) is made with water, so that it will stay light and nearly white.
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The top half is made with milk, and has pieces of oatmeal embedded in the top, which I pushed into the soap lightly, to make it stick, after putting it in the mold.
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I’ve been making a lot of candles also, in matching scents.
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I have four shelves full of product in the studio. I have workshops coming up the next three weekends in a row, then two more in a row after Thanksgiving, until I stop for the year in mid-December.

Winter is my season of (workshop) rest!

Note: I used the same recipe you can find here in my hot process tutorial, only I made these soaps with the cold process method.





Comments

  1. cabynfevr says:

    Someone asked but I never saw an answer… will you be selling soap by mail? I REALLY want some of the cherry!!

  2. Starfish says:

    I recently purchased two of Suzanne’s soaps via mail, Sassafras and Honey & Clover. The scents are light and beautiful and the suds are wonderful (I love soaps that make nice suds). I highly recommend them! 🙂

  3. GrammieEarth says:

    You are making wonderful Patience Soaps 🙂 Maybe I need to try that route myself! Beautiful outcomes, as I hope for you…as always :heart: :moo:

    Pam

  4. boulderneigh says:

    Everything looks YUMMY! (I love-love-love homemade scented soaps and good ol’-fashioned terry washcloths.)

    Your personal references went from “we” to “I”. I sure hope this doesn’t mean that the man who moved in wasn’t the perpetrator mentioned recently. :-/

  5. Minna says:

    Have you ever tried silicone soap molds? You could make your soaps look like cup cakes! Or apples or ducks or…

  6. yvonnem says:

    Your soaps are beautiful…looks like you could eat them! You have certainly come a long way from your first scary soap making post. Hoping all is well with you. :heart:

  7. starmartin says:

    You have been a very busy little beaver!!!

    The soaps look great (almost good enough to eat!!)

    Because of you, I want to practice, practice, practice making more soap.

    Thanks for your posts.

    Keep up the good work!!

  8. Leck Kill Farm says:

    I sincerely hope you are on your way to healing and so glad that you are ok. We were victims of a break-in that really was very minor yet it took me a very long time to get over the emotional damage. Not doubt it is much harder when it is violent physical crime.

    But a woman?!?!? that is odd, sadly it is nearly always a male on female violence. I am ashamed to admit I am curious……you may material for another book once the dust settles……

  9. boulderneigh says:

    Oh, I’m so glad in wasn’t your man, Suzanne!

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