Saswede
Well-Known Member
I've struggled with uploading photos from my iPad (probably my limited skills!), and don't usually get a lot of time at the desktop to upload photos ...... so these are the first I've managed to share on SMF.
I make natural, palm-free soaps using only vegetable oils and butters, so have a fairly limited color palette to work with. And I've focused on getting a creamy, moisturizing bar rather than turning my soap into works of art. But some of the fabulous soaps I've seen on the forum over the last few months have encouraged me to try some new techniques - and I've really enjoyed it! So I hope that you'll like the results ......
Hibiscus and coconut milk - using dried hibiscus petals, with no fragrance added. This set up really quickly when I added the petals (which are quite acidic) and coconut milk at trace, so I struggled to get it into the mold before it was rock hard. The soap is now about 6 weeks old, and the petals are still the same dark red they were when I made the soap - and there is a subtle scent from the hibiscus too:
Rose geranium "curl". Colored with French pink clay, and scented with rose geranium EO:
"Sapin" (pine needle) - ready for Christmas! Colored with French green clay and kaolin, and scented with pine EO blend:
This was a column pour that went wrong because the soap set up quickly - but it ended up OK anyway! Coloured with French red and green clays, and activated charcoal, and scented with an EO blend (mainly ylang ylang):
Belgian chocolate - colored with cocoa powder, and I used some chocolate FO I was given by a friend (who didn't realize that it wasn't an EO!):
I make natural, palm-free soaps using only vegetable oils and butters, so have a fairly limited color palette to work with. And I've focused on getting a creamy, moisturizing bar rather than turning my soap into works of art. But some of the fabulous soaps I've seen on the forum over the last few months have encouraged me to try some new techniques - and I've really enjoyed it! So I hope that you'll like the results ......
Hibiscus and coconut milk - using dried hibiscus petals, with no fragrance added. This set up really quickly when I added the petals (which are quite acidic) and coconut milk at trace, so I struggled to get it into the mold before it was rock hard. The soap is now about 6 weeks old, and the petals are still the same dark red they were when I made the soap - and there is a subtle scent from the hibiscus too:
Rose geranium "curl". Colored with French pink clay, and scented with rose geranium EO:
"Sapin" (pine needle) - ready for Christmas! Colored with French green clay and kaolin, and scented with pine EO blend:
This was a column pour that went wrong because the soap set up quickly - but it ended up OK anyway! Coloured with French red and green clays, and activated charcoal, and scented with an EO blend (mainly ylang ylang):
Belgian chocolate - colored with cocoa powder, and I used some chocolate FO I was given by a friend (who didn't realize that it wasn't an EO!):
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. Really beautiful
