ResolvableOwl
Notorious Lyear
Everyone feel free to contribute and extend this thread! I'm including some links to the few projects that came to my mind, but this of course is a terribly incomplete list!
Reasons for this thread:
I will start with cross-referencing to some of my red palm projects across SMF:
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80% red palm LS. Stayed bright orange for its whole life time, noticeably yellow lather, yet no prominent staining issues.
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100% red palm M&P, pure and in dilution with 8% | 25% | 65% white (pigmented) M&P soap
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Red palm bar soap confetti, embedded into clear M&P, to watch how the colour diffuses through the clear base
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4% red palm as HP post-cook superfat
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12% red palm in CP
Still “unpublished” is this fun little project. I haven't talked much about it, because some of the steps didn't quite meet my expectations (and I might repeat it, some time in the future):
This is a lollipop swirl (avoided gel). I've cut the column into “peace symbol” shape, and the leftover batter kneaded into soap dough, to use it as a rim + glue between the pieces of the symbol. Soap batter is 30% palm oil, RBD in the white parts, and zomi red palm oil in the yellow-orange sections. The soap dough is about 2:1 (i. e. ~10% red).
The brilliance never was too overwhelming, because zomi contains some particulate stuff from the palm pulp, that gives it a more yellowish-brown than orange-red look. It lost some of its colour depth, but it also spread by quite some distance, ruining the contrast.
Lather is not noticeably yellow. When in use, the red portions do dissolve noticeably quicker than the RBD, so the dark areas are in fact lower than the light ones. They also appear to have caught more stearic spots.
Finally, some accomplishments of others:
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@Ford : 15% red palm oil
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@dibbles : Layers with 0% | 2% | 5%
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@Zing : red palm at 5%
to be continued…
Reasons for this thread:
- Praise the marvellous colour of red palm oil!
- Give a clue about dosage to obtain different shades of yellow or orange (or other hues in combination with extra pigments)
- Diffusion: carotenoid colours are notorious for migrating into adjacent layers of a composed soap.
- Staining. How strongly coloured is the lather? Does it stain white fabric? Hands?
- Long-term stability. The orange-yellow goodness has not an infinite life span, the colour fades over time, and loses some of its brilliance. If applicable, include pics of soap bars at different ages, to estimate this fading.
I will start with cross-referencing to some of my red palm projects across SMF:
Conceptual Soap Opera
I'll open this thread to dump ideas and results of some (more or less experimental) approaches that came to my mind (and my curing rack) over time. There will be updates in loose succession. If you think you have something in line to present, feel free to join! I know too well that, in our...
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What soapy thing have you done today?
It's been a couple of months since I've posted. Life has taken some unexpected turns which see me travelling up to 5-6 hours a day to help my step father navigate palli care for my mum. Both of whom are in deep denial that she's got less than six months. He actually said to me "well Miette (my...
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What soapy thing have you done today?
Centrifuge tubes got delivered! 😍🧪 Good luck guessing what soapy things I'm intending to do with them. 🤭🤓
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What’s with the halo?
Well, no halos or indents around my little cubes. Top to bottom, unmolded and cut at 24 hrs, 48 hrs, and
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July 2021 SMF Soap Un-Challenge - Confetti/Cubes
This challenge has motivated me to use the crazy amount of soap scraps I forgot I had. I chose the orange and yellow ones for this fall soap, I put them inside and on top, but have not taken pictures of the bars which I just cut today. Scented with caramel apple crunch from Wsp.
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Triple Maize Soap
I've learned about nixtamalisation like a foreign language. Corn doesn't play much of a role in the cuisine over here, and when, then it's cultural (more often than not literally pop-cultural) import: corn flakes, polenta, popcorn, tortillas. Accordingly exotic was it for me to read up the...
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When Life gives you ugly scented candles … make soap out of them!
Among the slightly early Christmas presents, was a candle, scented with a questionable FO cocktail and some sloppy decoration. I won't show it out of respect to the gifter (totally not because I forgot to snap it). But that jar!!! 😃 Hunter-gatherer genes, y'know 🙄 I found a label on the candle...
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Still “unpublished” is this fun little project. I haven't talked much about it, because some of the steps didn't quite meet my expectations (and I might repeat it, some time in the future):
This is a lollipop swirl (avoided gel). I've cut the column into “peace symbol” shape, and the leftover batter kneaded into soap dough, to use it as a rim + glue between the pieces of the symbol. Soap batter is 30% palm oil, RBD in the white parts, and zomi red palm oil in the yellow-orange sections. The soap dough is about 2:1 (i. e. ~10% red).
The brilliance never was too overwhelming, because zomi contains some particulate stuff from the palm pulp, that gives it a more yellowish-brown than orange-red look. It lost some of its colour depth, but it also spread by quite some distance, ruining the contrast.
Lather is not noticeably yellow. When in use, the red portions do dissolve noticeably quicker than the RBD, so the dark areas are in fact lower than the light ones. They also appear to have caught more stearic spots.
Finally, some accomplishments of others:
Red Palm butter....
Hello everybody. Used up last of Red Palm. Also added apricot kernel oil, avocado oil, Cocoa butter. Thanks for looking.
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What soapy thing have you done today?
I tested the red palm soap I made about a week ago. The soap is 5% red palm in the bottom layer, no color-no red palm in the middle and 2% red palm in the top layer. I cut a small piece off of the 5% and 2% red palm I poured into little pots. Both lather white. After sitting on a white paper...
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Mechanic's soap
Nothing special here, totally utilitarian. Don't look at the drag marks! I scented with rosemary, litsea, basil essential oils. I'm not crazy about the smell but it does smell earthy. Mrs. Zing loves the scent so there's that. My gardening hands are hard to keep clean so it's full of...
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to be continued…
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You might also place one piece at a light/sunny place, and let light bleach out some of the carotene dyestuff.
