I just finished up a soaping session.  This time I made

1. 100% coconut 20% superfat salt bar soap.  I made this just like I did my other 100% coconut oil soap, but I also added 75% of the oil weight of table salt.  I hear that the salt does great things… what I guess I'll find out next month.  It's not a scrub bar, I shouldn't feel any grit from the salt.  It's supposed to just make a nice smooth bar. 

I think the salt bar will be ready to unmold today.  I hear the salt
bars set up really quick and if you use a large mold you need to cut it
while it's still warm.  If you wait until it's cooled down cutting into
the loaf will cause it to crumble.  I put my salt bars into individual
silicone molds so I am avoiding the short window for cutting salt bars.
I also used Gingerfish fragrance oil.  Mmmmm… smells like ginger ale or Sprite.  Yummy, refreshing smell.

2. Basic bastile soap (90% pomace olive oil/10% castor oil) and I threw in a bunch of my trimmings from other soap batches.  So the color and fragrance comes from all of the colored trimmings and their fragrances.  I put this one in a 1/2 gallon milk carton.  I think I'll cut these into triangles.  I'm not sure what kind of fragrance is going to come out since it's a mix of a bunch of differently fragranced soap bits.  Hopefully it's going to be a nice mix…

3.  Basic bastile (90% OO/10% castor) made with half and half instead of water.  So a basic milk soap.  I've read that milk, whether it's cow or goat, adds a nice creaminess and gentle quality.  Since bastiles are already a nice mild soap, adding the half and half should make it even nicer.  I put half of the batch in the freezer to prevent gel and half in the oven to gel.  I am curious to see the difference.  Usually gelled milk soaps come out darker in color as the sugars in the milk carmelize.  Preventing gel should prevent too much carmelization, but it will take a little longer before I can unmold and the saponification process will take longer, like in the whipped soaps.

4. Basic bastile and half and half with some honey added.  Honey and cream soap. The addition of sugar, whether honey, white sugar, molasses, etc. adds more lather to a bar.  So I thought I'd add some honey.  I don't think the smell of the honey will survive the lye process, but I'll see.  I also used some bubble wrap to create a sort of honey come texture to the soaps.  I also put half of the batch into the oven and half into the freezer.  The addition of sugars also makes the batter really heat up.  If one isn't careful one could not only caramalize the sugars, but also burn the sugars and come out with a really dark brown, burnt sugar soap.