Teach Soap

Starstastic,

Your first soap is beautiful & the scent sounds great.

Awesome, Star! Alas, you have better swirl skills then I, and I'm almost 10 batches in.

Starstatic I see a great work and beautiful colors, congratulations for your first soap. Now to be patient and wait (I think this is what costs us more)

I also left here a link to a color that I tested and I came out as I expected, but not upset me at all:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/jaboneros/4716724260/

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http://aureana.artesanum.com
http://haciendojabon.blogspot.com

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

Soapbuddy not the way I did, I had another idea in my head, but as I say the soap was his idea and I followed with mine. The top of the soap if I did it on purpose but I wanted to do as a kind of vortex or something similar and as you can see I cut out the soap and I found the surprise.

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http://aureana.artesanum.com
http://haciendojabon.blogspot.com

It's really pretty, I like that color combo.

I have about 15 batches under my belt at this point, so I thought I'd do the whole chilling/non-gel thing I've read so much about... Here it is, fresh cut....

Goats milk with Oatmeal
http://www.flickr.com/photos/63539227@N00/4722763859/

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

..Congratulations..

fun fun fun..

So many amazing soaps!! One of these days I'll get pictures of the soaps I made for my brother's wedding (for guests that are traveling).

TryblTrtle ... I got swirling after a first horrific batch LOL What I can't get with swirling is getting the swirl to go DOWN! lol I need to pour my second color higher, but I'm a little clutzy so it makes me nervous LOL I just love your soaps!

Soapbuddy, that Mayan Gold is really beautiful! The swirls look like they went exactly where you meant them to, like you painted them in!

Starstatic ... So very jealous that you can just drop in, meet Toby and pick your things up!! Your soap looks fantastic!!

Ana Maria ... The swirls on your soap are really pretty!!

mandylou ... Congrats on trying out chilling. Oatmeal soap is one of my favorites still!

I can't wait to get back at the end of July and try out some new soaps! Actually, I may do up one last cp batch this week before I leave

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Amy in Soapland

My first CP sucesses! Plain, and it took long enough... but I am happy to share these =)

Shea Butter Supreme, from Smart Soapmaking book

&

Oatmeal Honey with Cranberry Sweet FO

They look awesome!

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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....

Great job! I love the honey oatmeal - it looks so natural.

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Susie
Sometimes A Mistake is so much fun, You just have to do it again!

Last night I made my first batch of soap from scratch. Well technically my second, but the one I made before was over 20 years ago (hand rendered tallow soap). The new soap is a version of Castile Soap with 75% olive oil and 25% Coconut oil.

I used a cold process, oven process (CPOP) method. Here are some of the notes I took while making my soap last night...
1) The canning pot I purchase just for making soap is too big. The stick blender was barely submerged and there was some light splattering. Fortunately I had some vinegar on standby just in case to clean it up.
2) I used filtered tap water chilled in the refrigerator. The ambient room temperature was about 75° so the coconut oil was slushy.
3) Using the stick blender, it took about 5 minutes to get to light trace (the point where the sodium hydroxide and the oils have emulsified and will no longer separate). The soap was poured into the molds at light trace.
4) Soap was unmolded and cut at about 16 hours. The soap was firm, but still very easy to cut. I could definitely use a mitre box to make more uniform cuts.

There are more photos at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Seashore- ... 4157282519.

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Beautifu!! Can't wait to see it cut.... Congrats!

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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....