Recent content by Hamia

A week after the bars being solidified and cut. I understand the basic science behind this, which is why it stumps me. I can wash with an ungelled bar and it feels noticeably different than a gelled one of the same formula

Hi, I have experimented with gelled and ungelled soaps using the same formula. I noticed when I washed with samples from the gelled batch, they didn't give my skin the dried out feeling at all while the ungelled soaps were still drying a week later. Is this just due to gelled soaps getting...

you were right. i was wrong. just washed with another bar from that same batch and the edges were dark brown while the insides were creamy. i just don't know the mechanism for how that happens.

My bad for not saying i used cocoa as a colorant I'll have to remember that for next time. I think getting these into a chocolate mold with that effect would be cool af Now that I think of it I'm not sure what happened

It's brown because of cocoa powder Also thank you

This is one of the first batch of chocolate soap i ever made. I cut open a piece just on a whim and i guess i didnt mix it enough because the inside is still uncolored. Looks like a chocolate buttercream!

Hi there! I got into soap making when a friend of mine raved about how castile soap is the best all around cleaning product in the house. Of course I wasn't a fan of paying the high prices for the commercial castile soap. After I found out how easy it was to make my own, it was like a whole new...