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i couldn't be more amazed and pleased than if i had invented electricity! good-bye old fashioned cold process!! i have sparkling white, fragrant soap!

i would appreciate your thoughts and comments....

i used a bb 18 bar soap mold. i use 54 oz oils to make a bar 1.125" thick. with this process it makes a bar 1.5" thick, which to me gives it a greater preceived value to customers.

another benefit i see is being able to use f/o's that accelerate trace or caused my soap to sieze!

i wanted to use up some mango butter and cocobutter, and plan to sub shea butter in the future.

i also wanted to use more olive oil, no crisco, and use steric acid to firm up the olive oil for whipping.

i used soap calc for my recipe.

melt the night before:

17 olive
7.5 palm kernel
12 coconut
4.5 castor
4.5 cocobutter
4.5 mango butter
4 steric acid

i used an 8% lye discount

7.5 lye
20 liquid

i added the lye to 12 oz water and let cool overnight.

the rest was reserved until just before adding fragrance:

blend:

1 oz aloe concentrate (10:1) liberty naturals
1 oz vegetable glycerine
1 tsp powdered sugar
6 oz coconut milk

it took about 6 hrs before the mold warmed up. i had placed an extra blanket over it. the next morning, out popped perfect soap! it had the consistancy of a medium-firm brick of cheese. it was easy to hand-bevel the edges.

these come from soap calc:

hardness: 49
cleansing: 23
conditioning: 47
bubbly: 31
creamy: 33
ins 165

with an 8% lye discount i figure it will increase conditioning and offset any negatives of a higher ins.

could someone suggest what type colorants i should use? i would like clear bright colors, as i believe they tone down after processing. i would like pink, purple, plum, yellow, golden, lime green and darker green so i can try my hand at swirling!

veteran rtcp's, i would sure appreciate your comments and suggestions.

i haven't been this excited in years!

monet
 
Wow, that should be one rock hard soap when cured! I may have to try this one.

Colorant choices seem to be as individual as people who use them. For the mint soap, I used Select Shades. I have the basic 8 set and you can mix them to make a myriad of colors. There are several charts to help in case you are mixing challenged like me. http://selectshades.com/charts.html

I also like micas. TKB Trading has a great selection and good prices. http://www.tkbtrading.com/index.php?maincat=8 I prefer the powdered because you can also use them for stamping or lightly brushing on with a paint brush. The POP colors are awesome!!! Just a little bit will give you a pastel color. One of the reds (I do not remember off the top of my head) morphs to orange, but the others are fab!! http://www.tkbtrading.com/index.php?ite ... egory%3D29 To start, you can get the sampler set to try. A little goes a long way. Oh yeah, they have a neon pink that I just got but have not used yet. :lol:

Digit
 
colorants

digit said:
Wow, that should be one rock hard soap when cured! I may have to try this one.

Colorant choices seem to be as individual as people who use them. For the mint soap, I used Select Shades. I have the basic 8 set and you can mix them to make a myriad of colors. There are several charts to help in case you are mixing challenged like me. http://selectshades.com/charts.html

I also like micas. TKB Trading has a great selection and good prices. http://www.tkbtrading.com/index.php?maincat=8 I prefer the powdered because you can also use them for stamping or lightly brushing on with a paint brush. The POP colors are awesome!!! Just a little bit will give you a pastel color. One of the reds (I do not remember off the top of my head) morphs to orange, but the others are fab!! http://www.tkbtrading.com/index.php?ite ... egory%3D29 To start, you can get the sampler set to try. A little goes a long way. Oh yeah, they have a neon pink that I just got but have not used yet. :lol:

Digit

just ordered the glycerine based neon sampler from tkb trading. it says all colors are non-bleeding and good in high ph rtcp soaps.

i can hardly wait!

monet
 
I love mango butter in soap .. makes for a nice hard bar with a very cream lather. I usually use 10% of some kind of butter in all my recipes.
 
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