well, i made the rhubarb soap but it won't be soap until tomorrow 8 pmish.
i'm not sure how the color will end up though.....before i added the rhubarb water to the lye it was a beautiful pink color. i had to dilute the pink water somewhat as i didn't have enough. the minute the lye hit the water everything turned a terrible black/brown color. but then as i stirred, it seemed to lighten up a bit to be a kind of orange tan....
i used a recipe w/ coconut oil, sweet almond oil, shea butter, palm oil, jojoba oil and inplace of avocado oil i used olive oil as i didn't have any avocado oil. at trace i threw in a handful of some very nice dried lavender i had gotten and an ounce of lavender essential oil. (i ran the recipe thru a
lye calculator (1st time to do this!!) and i think it's ok....it's a 8% superfatted soap....which i guess is ok.....it may take longer to gel because of this?)
the color looked to be more of a greyish lavendar rather than any kind of pink.....i guess i'm not suprised as i wouldn't think very many substances would survive the lye monster. i can't wait until it's soap....i may have to peak.....
:shock: gulp....i looked and it's been a bit shy of 4 hours post pour and the color is a very dark brownish....and it's very gel like, not hard at all.....i don't think i've ever peaked this early before, so is this normal....i don't know.....i hope so....i hope it works....would hate for it not to. i followed the recipe exactly except for the substitution of olive for avacado oil.....i'm not sure how that will effect things. guess i'll see tomorrow...fingers crossed...will post pix if there is anything to take a picture of.......