annalee2003
Well-Known Member
Since I don't have the ingredients or supplies to make soap yet (will at the beginning of October though, yay!), I've been impatiently researching here and there while I wait.
When I do eventually make soap, I think I'd like to stick close to "natural" ingredients. Which brought me to infused oils.
I found a few useful websites, and a lot of very informative threads here on the forum the help me along.
While looking up infused oils, I realized I could start some today!
So I started to search our cupboards for what I could infuse. I had a bag of dried hibiscus flowers that my sister in law brought over about a week ago, coffee, and cinnamon. The only oil that we have at the moment is a big 5 quart jug of vegetable oil from Costco (which is just soybean oil, when I looked at the ingredients). I chose the cold or slow version of infusing them, since I obviously have time to wait (no heating in hot water baths right now).
Honestly these are just experiments at the moment, something to just kinda bide my time with. But if they work, I'll at least have some infusions to add to my soap at some point.![Smile :) :)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
Just wanted to share my excitement with everyone, haha. This waiting process is slowly killing me. :x
When I do eventually make soap, I think I'd like to stick close to "natural" ingredients. Which brought me to infused oils.
I found a few useful websites, and a lot of very informative threads here on the forum the help me along.
While looking up infused oils, I realized I could start some today!
So I started to search our cupboards for what I could infuse. I had a bag of dried hibiscus flowers that my sister in law brought over about a week ago, coffee, and cinnamon. The only oil that we have at the moment is a big 5 quart jug of vegetable oil from Costco (which is just soybean oil, when I looked at the ingredients). I chose the cold or slow version of infusing them, since I obviously have time to wait (no heating in hot water baths right now).
Honestly these are just experiments at the moment, something to just kinda bide my time with. But if they work, I'll at least have some infusions to add to my soap at some point.
Just wanted to share my excitement with everyone, haha. This waiting process is slowly killing me. :x