soapandwine
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Hi everyone,
A couple of days ago, I decided to use fresh strawberries and blueberries to make a soap. I pureed the fruit and pushed it through a fine mesh giving me a very smooth and creamy sauce. I doesn't look too good and it's a bit oily after cutting. I don't really know if the soap is bad or not, perhaps it just needs to dry and cure a while.
I added a couple of tablespoons of my berry sauce and some red colorant to about a third of the mix so as to create a swirl like effect (I thought). The top looks beautiful. While at gel stage, it looked so nice I celebrated having a glass of wine. But when I cut the soap, no so nice inside... You can see the top of the soap actually looks a lovely pink, with some rosemary sprinkled.
Big question: can this soap be used? the part without the berry sauce looks like soap and it's nice, but the berry part doesn't feel like soap, but maybe that's just the nature of adding fresh fruit to it. did I add too much? :cry:
Recipe:
30oz Olive Oil
11.25oz Coconut Oil
0.75oz Castor Oil (I had that much and wanted to finish it)
7oz Sweet Almond Oil
3oz Shea Butter
7.2oz Lye
13.3oz Water
4oz Coconut Milk (added at light trace)
2tbsp Berries mix (added at light trace to about a third of mix)
20 drops of red color (fd&c and added at light trace to about a third of mix)
Fresh rosemary sprinkled on top.
FYI, I licked the soaps all over and no zap.
A couple of days ago, I decided to use fresh strawberries and blueberries to make a soap. I pureed the fruit and pushed it through a fine mesh giving me a very smooth and creamy sauce. I doesn't look too good and it's a bit oily after cutting. I don't really know if the soap is bad or not, perhaps it just needs to dry and cure a while.
I added a couple of tablespoons of my berry sauce and some red colorant to about a third of the mix so as to create a swirl like effect (I thought). The top looks beautiful. While at gel stage, it looked so nice I celebrated having a glass of wine. But when I cut the soap, no so nice inside... You can see the top of the soap actually looks a lovely pink, with some rosemary sprinkled.
Big question: can this soap be used? the part without the berry sauce looks like soap and it's nice, but the berry part doesn't feel like soap, but maybe that's just the nature of adding fresh fruit to it. did I add too much? :cry:
Recipe:
30oz Olive Oil
11.25oz Coconut Oil
0.75oz Castor Oil (I had that much and wanted to finish it)
7oz Sweet Almond Oil
3oz Shea Butter
7.2oz Lye
13.3oz Water
4oz Coconut Milk (added at light trace)
2tbsp Berries mix (added at light trace to about a third of mix)
20 drops of red color (fd&c and added at light trace to about a third of mix)
Fresh rosemary sprinkled on top.
FYI, I licked the soaps all over and no zap.