Teach Soap

Very happy new year to everyone!
Just want to share my first batch with you. After reading lots of threads here, I decided to try CP. I got a beautiful opaque white soap that is now curing on the shelf. My recipe was:
550 gr olive oil (49.54%)
407 gr lard (36.66%)
153 gr sunflower seed oil (13.78%)
These are fats readily available here in Spain, I've never seen things like coconut oil or palm kernel oil. If I want to try some of these, I'll have to buy online.
I didn't add any colorant or scent. Being my first batch I wanted to keep it simple. Moreover, I plan to give a few bars to a friend who has a very sensitive, prone to dermatitis skin, so the fewer 'suspicious' ingredients the better.
It was a lot of fun, and I'm already planning my next batch.
Here is the soap:

Your soap looks great. Welcome.

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Diana
Butter Babies Soap
bbsoap.com

nice job! your soaps look great.

Your soap is lovely. So white, like snow. Did you use a color in it to enhance the white color?

Welcome to this forum and Happy and Joyous New Year 2010!

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~bytheSEAsoap~ Mella bythesea, bythesea, bythebeautiful sea

海の皂

Welcome and good job!

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Irena
Closed minds are like faulty parachutes; they refuse to open.

Thanks for your nice words
Mella, I did not use any color. I thiink that the white color is in part caused by the very white lard, and in part caused by the soap not going through gel phase. This was not intended, it's just that my kitchen is pretty cold these days.

Very nice! And welcome..

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Deb.....


If you blow in a dogs face he gets mad....take him for a car ride ..and he sticks his head out the window....

Hey those look great! With my last batch I tried not to let it gel but I think it did anyway. What kind of mold did you use?

Thanks!
My mold was just a mitre box with a piece of cardboard closing each end.
My kitchen was at 15C (59F) while I was soaping, I guess that's why the soap did not gel.

I want to try using a mitre box for a mold because I think it would make it so easy to cut nice, evenly sized pieces. Mine was a itty bitty roasting pan. It looks like a bread pan but the sides are straight up and down and it has a lid. Just something I got at goodwill for $1 while I decide what to do next