Seems Like a Soap Frenzy Here…

Hello…
Since Christmas is creeping over the horizon, and soap takes about a month to cure… I thought to get into a bit of a soap making session.
Above are the last batch of Christmas tree soaps for one of the local shops.

Sharon dropped off the other soaps from our last workshop and I took them all into a local shop for people to collect

This was lovely… soft greens with a scrub

Coffee! And two tone!

This grey and saffron turned out pretty

So did the bee soap!

I am sure they are all going to be really happy with their soaps!

So… what soaps have I put together?
Some stock standard ones that sell well…
Eucalyptus and beach sand hand scrub – two batches

Cedar and Saffron… three batches!

Today I did another confetti soap.. looking forward to cutting it. There is a layer of pink on the bottom and I’ve used the rose and geranium essential oil, since that one sold so well last weekend

I also did a black raspberry and vanilla loaf… but muffed up the colours lol. Bit too much black.

Then… whats on the inside??

So pleased with this technique! It worked!

Super keen to try more raindrops!

Then there was this epic effort/experiment

Underwhelming from the top??

Sneak peek…

The slab mould tasks one and a half times the mixture… so I divided that into 6 and made 6 separate batches… letting each one set up a bit so I would get even layers

I learned that one should not leave it too long between each layer – I had dinner between the pink and purple layer and it wants to part company from the rest of the soap.

Oh the cutting 🙁
I had to use a knife as my cheese cutter is too small.

I am going to have to make a bigger wire cutter for occasions like this

So… once I had it cut down the middle I could use the cheese cutter to tidy things up. There is a bit of wastage but I am planning to cube all the bold colours and drop them back into another soap.

Final result? Pretty great! (Lemongrass and Exotic Lime fragrance)
Would I do it again? Maaayyybeee?? (It was an all day up until 1am kind of effort in between everything else so…)

I’ll return with the latest cuts soon!
Cheers!