That sounds good! I love molasses cookies and I thought coconut sugar might work well in them.
I made the "black sugar" soap. I really liked the smell of the brown sugar and molasses so I used Brown Sugar & Fig to scent it. JMO, but it smells wonderful.
Some observations - I scraped the brown sugar and molasses into the oils and was surprised by how it appeared to swell up in the oils. It looked odd. I hit it a few times with the stickblender to disperse it and then added the lye. Another surprise - it took well over 15 minutes to even get to a light trace. I can't say exactly how long because I didn't look at the time when I started blending. After awhile, I thought "???" and then started to track the time. This isn't normal for this recipe to be this slow to trace plus I didn't let it get too cool before I blended. I don't know the temp but both containers were warm to the touch so I'm guessing at least 110F. Now I'm thinking of other ways to do this type of soap. One - make a double batch with one part with the brown sugar/molasses and the other part without because I might be able to get a nice swirl with it. I'm mulling over some other ideas. One thought is I now know that Stacie is an enabler. I may have to avoid reading her posts from now on. :lolno:
I'll have to take a picture after I cut so people can see how it turned out.
I made the "black sugar" soap. I really liked the smell of the brown sugar and molasses so I used Brown Sugar & Fig to scent it. JMO, but it smells wonderful.
Some observations - I scraped the brown sugar and molasses into the oils and was surprised by how it appeared to swell up in the oils. It looked odd. I hit it a few times with the stickblender to disperse it and then added the lye. Another surprise - it took well over 15 minutes to even get to a light trace. I can't say exactly how long because I didn't look at the time when I started blending. After awhile, I thought "???" and then started to track the time. This isn't normal for this recipe to be this slow to trace plus I didn't let it get too cool before I blended. I don't know the temp but both containers were warm to the touch so I'm guessing at least 110F. Now I'm thinking of other ways to do this type of soap. One - make a double batch with one part with the brown sugar/molasses and the other part without because I might be able to get a nice swirl with it. I'm mulling over some other ideas. One thought is I now know that Stacie is an enabler. I may have to avoid reading her posts from now on. :lolno:
I'll have to take a picture after I cut so people can see how it turned out.