cupcake soaps

So those cupcakes that I iced with melt and pour soap…  I forgot that M&P soaps “sweat”.  The humectant qualities of the soap draws moisture from the air and beads of fluid show up on the soap.  So now the cupcakes look like wet cream cheese frosting.  Usually I shrink wrap or plastic wrap M&P soap to prevent “sweating”, but I needed to keep the bottom gingerbread CPOP soap to cure with circulating air.  I didn't like the wet look so I scraped the frosting off.  I'll need to try to make whipped CP soap for frosting.  I should be able to pipe the “frosting” onto the cupcakes.  That would make for some really cute cupcake soaps, like real cupcakes.  Next time.  Right now, I'm waiting for internet orders to arrive.  I need some more ingredients including lye before I can make more soap.  I think they are scheduled for delivery on monday. 

I also really want to try 100% coconut oil soap.  Usually it makes for a super cleansing, super hard, but very drying.  However, people have said to they love it superfatted to 20% to increase conditioning. My recipes have had 6% superfatting.  So 100% coconut oil at 20% will definitely be apart of my soap recipe testing. 

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