Soap Update

Hello!! How is everyone?
Did people do something for Halloween?
I think a few local kids did some trick or treating in town and the staff at the supermarket dressed up a bit 🙂

So – I peeled some slivers from an orange and chucked them in the dehydrator. I was a bit excited about a new fragrance called ‘Orange and Bitter Chocolate’
Oh yes… yummo!
I wanted to put some actual orange peel on the soap as a decoration.
That kind of thing needs to be dehydrated though otherwise it will go mouldy. (Not a good look in soap haha)

Well – the fragrance made the mixture thicken up SUPER quick. I practically had soap in the bucket before I could get it into the mould!

Panic panic.
It did make for a really interesting texture and the colours underneath once unmoulded looked ok too

It does smell delightful.

Another one I did prior to this also did the same acceleration to the ‘trace’ (thickness of the mixture in soaping terms)
I was going to do a drop swirl with a new Strawberry and Champagne fragrance… it ended up going into the mould in layers as it was so thick!

I haven’t remembered to get photos of the cut version…

Then there was a new batch of the Oatmeal and Stout (Smells divine)

Again no unmoulded photos yet, same as the one below which is another new fragrance which I am loving already ‘Coconut and Lime’

Then there was another attempt at the embed mould of the Christmas tree…
I really liked the stripes better on this one

(Little hearts)

Funny thing though… the tree got a bit fat!!
Too much pre Christmas Cheer… or I didn’t snick the sides of the mould together quite firmly enough and it… bulged haha

This whole loaf (12 bars) is destined to be sold in a local shop that one of my friends owns!! I’ll be able to hand them over in the first week of December as they should be (just) ready by then.

I got a fantastic order from my parents – 35 soaps!!
They’ve asked around their retirement village who wanted to buy some. So I put a box together and even made up a special request (Round soap with pink)

My parents showed the lady in question the photo and she really liked them and also requested a couple of the ones with the purple too! (Lavender and Cedar)

And last but not least… attempt number two on my ‘Fir Tree in a Snow Storm’

Charlie Brown would be proud… 🙂
I remembered the olive granules in the bottom layer as a scrub and had the mixture thinner this time.
The indigo powder does streak … and I think I need to put the green in spread a little wider to get a less lopsided tree….
Still a work in progress but so much fun to create!

Okies… thats all from me!
Hopefully I’ll pop in tomorrow evening to say hi, as we are planning to disappear south again the following day to hunt more fossils and agate (and yes I know I haven’t even taken photos of the last lot properly)
Jeff was all fired keen to go again (cough… nerd… cough). I wasn’t going to go as it was all to hard with the animals, but apparently Wonderful Cousin Beau is free to stop in for a couple of days!
Yay… trip for me too!

Cheers!