I beveled my very first kaleidoscope soap today. Huge thanks to @not_ally for sharing her notes. This batch would not have been nearly as pretty without you.
One unexpected thing that I should have thought of but didn’t, make an extra 200 grams or so of batter. I had planned to get 5 - 1 1/4”...
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1. Justsomeguy - it's gonna be nerve wrecking but I'm in. My first venture into multicolored soap😬
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I used the recipe for oily hair which contains rice bran and castor oils. I figured I would try the recipe as written first, before I start modifying it. I only made 50 grams so not too much wasted product if I don’t like it.
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I tried my DIY pourable shampoo bar last night. As mentioned above I was unimpressed with the lather. My next batch will definitely include both SCI and SLSa. My last recipe used about half of each so I’m thinking of starting there.
The good news is that my hair feels great. I was concerned...
Made these cute horsey bath bombs today.
Followed that up with a 50 gram bar of DIY B&B hot pour shampoo. Thank you to all the folks who helped with specific instructions on melting the SCI. That helped a lot!
My inspiration this month was a combination of a Bundt cake and a swirl cake. The last picture is my inspiration. I used three colors, 40% natural, 50% cocoa powder and 10% a blend of sparkle gold mica mixed with bronze brown. Fragrance is BB Dark Chocolate mixed with Mocha from a local...
Thank you for sharing this! I love the idea of using little tubes for preparing the fragrance.
Great idea with banding the pipettes to the fragrance bottle. I love using pipettes but hate the plastic waste too. I think I have some glass pipettes with rubber tops that I might be able to wash. 🤔