Teach Soap

Hello everyone, I'm a newbie and I'm planning a recipe for my first batch of soap. I want to make a vanilla-lavender soap but I read that vanilla can turn soap brown so I thought I could make a layered soap, bottom lavender colored with Alkanet root and top vanilla sort of a brown color. My question is after pouring my bottom layer do I spritz it with Alcohol (for bubbles) then pour the top layer like in Melt N Pour???

In a word...."no". You don't need to spritz with alcohol. Not all vanilla turns soap brown. BB has a non discoloring vanilla. I make my lavender-vanilla using goat's milk, then mix the 2 fragrances together. The soap turns a very nice tan and my customers find it appealing.

If you want to layer, I would make two simultaneously and layer them together. Or, you can make one batch and split it in half then add your colorants, then fragrance to each half independently. Hope this helps.

I was hesitant about the brown color that BB Relaxing FO turns soap. Guess what? It is the bars that everyone likes regardless of the color so don't be put off by the color in vanilla.

Thank you so much!

In order for the layers to stick, make sure the whole soap gels.

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no one that I've ever sold soap to seems to care that my vanilla soap is brown