So the soaps from 3/25/10.
I LOVE how the cupcakes came out with their whipped soap topping! The multicolored jojoba beads just completes the look! Even though my whipped soap went a little flat it still looks delicious! The remaining whipped soap I put some color and fragrance and put into oval molds. I wonder if I whipped it enough to make the soap float on water? Air, that's what makes Ivory soap float.
The milk carton made a great rounded square shape when the sides bowed out. I really like it. Fits in the hand well.
The eye shaped hair colorant packaging didn't fair as well. It warped in the heat and some of the packaging ink came off onto the soap. So I had to shave off some of the outer sides of the soap to take the inked soap off. I still got an eye shape, although a little warped.
The pomegranate and black currant soap is weeping oil. I have read that sometimes the oil will absorbe back into the soap. So I'll wait and see in a few weeks. The swirl color with the burgundy and purple came out nice.
The rice flower and shea fragranced soap is an example of how colors can morph in the heat and high pH. I used violet oxide which looks like a wonderful purple violet color, but when it hits the soap batter it turns grey. So I heard that if you mix in some blue oxide it will become a nice slate grey. Well, I got sort of a dark brown black. Also when I added the fo and colorant I got an ammonia burning smell. Maybe something happened to the fo?
The 100% coconut oil soap I swirled with a light sky blue. Came out real pretty. But it too is a bit oily to the touch. I did do a 20% superfat though, so maybe that's expected.
Superfat is the amount of oil you put in on top of what gets used up by the lye. 0% superfat is just the amount of oil that will use up all of the lye to make soap. If you put more oils in than that it will not saponify and have more moisturizing qualities as more oils are left in the soap. I usually superfat at 6%, so 20% was a huge departure for me.
The smallest of the Staples boxes produced a blockish bar that seems a bit awkward in the hand. If I cut it in half it would make a nice guest soap size.
