What soapy thing have you done today?
- Thread starter FlybyStardancer
- Start date
Help Support Soapmaking Forum:
AliensrReal
Well-Known Member
Been busy making soaps. There’s soda ash on them, but I’m not gonna worry about it. Scents used BB champagne and ginger ale, indigo fragrance celebration and Calacazz and JS Rosemary lemon. I am in love with ginger ale and champagne. I need this in everything! Celebration and calacazz are lush dupes and smell exactly like it too. I just hope they stick. Rosemary lemon is perfectly balanced. I used my 1lb molds for some.
Attachments
I played with a soap stamp on a couple of curing soap bars. I like the results on the green bar but not so much on the other. Green soap has Crisp Apple Rose FO with confetti soap scraps throughout. The other is a turmeric and activated charcoal soap scented with Orange Valencia essential oil. Both are goat milk soaps.
I made my third batch of soap ever! First time using fragrance and wow do I have some things to learn. Everything smells like lavender.
That last green and yellow one is heavenly!
I am excited to use by Ginger Ale after reading your take on it.
That is a cute stamp! Love it!
AliensrReal
Well-Known Member
I did the clamshell swirl for that one.That last green and yellow one is heavenly!
I am excited to use by Ginger Ale after reading your take on it.
Ginger ale is fabulous! It smells so dang bubbly. It’s holding up so far but it’s only been a week. I think I like champagne more as there’s a boozy and a berry note in it. It could also be used for ginger ale. They are both wonderful.
I tried to unmold my third batch of soap ever. Less successful than the making part was yesterday. 
It's well softer than the previous ones and it tried to crack. Giving it more time, but it's in the only mold I have so it's difficult to be patient!
(edited to correct spelling)
It's well softer than the previous ones and it tried to crack. Giving it more time, but it's in the only mold I have so it's difficult to be patient!(edited to correct spelling)
AliensrReal
Well-Known Member
Yeah, that’s why I got two molds when I started soaping. I’m very impatient.I tried to unmold my third batch of soap ever. Less successful than the making part was yesterday.
(edited to correct spelling)
That happened with my lavender slurry soap experiment ~ my poor husband
The scent throughout the tiny apartment finally faded after a few days (at least that's when he stopped complaining), but now I'm finally using a bar and it smells lovely with each shower Patience is the hardest part!I tried to unmold my third batch of soap ever. Less successful than the making part was yesterday.
(edited to correct spelling)
Update: I have flunked patience. Unmolded it just short of 48 hours even though it's still soft. I was able to cut it, but it was messy. Now trying to figure out whether it was actually emulsified when I poured it (posted the question in the beginner thread), or genuinely my only problem is that I'm a baby who can't wait.
Windy Point is where I got that amazing dark purple clay ~ and they haven't had any more since
I've been watching though 
I have flunked patience a couple times myself
mostly when I was working with high percentages of olive oil, which takes a while to firm up in the mold. But now that I'm adjusting my recipes to include more butters, my soap batters go through emulsion and get to trace real quick and set up nice in the molds! Which is nice because olive oil takes FOREVER to come to trace also ~ it's just a slow oil to work with altogether 
definitely a patience tester, which I didn't realize when I started working with it 
Just keep experimenting and tweaking your recipe ~ you never know what you will end up with as your favorite recipe Happy soaping 
AliensrReal
Well-Known Member
Steamed one of my soaps. It’s shiny.
Beautiful!
AliensrReal
Well-Known Member
I’m pretty sure it’s the white sparkle mica from WSP that made it shine like that. I love the effect
I made a couple of batches of soap with my daughter's help today. I would have made more, but I realized I bought disodium EDTA rather than tetrasodium EDTA. So I masterbatched everything else and ordered the correct stuff.
So problem ~ I've been sitting here waiting for my sodium citrate to arrive and I just received a notice that I received a refund (with no explanation as to why, mind you). When I went to the website, it says they are out of stock ~ not such a shock since they were running great prices on all their sizes, including the itty bitty 4 oz size, which would have been perfect for experimenting with at first.
So my question is ~ is the sodium citrate used in soap the same kind used in food? Because that's what keeps coming up in searches. I priced some on the soap making websites but I don't want whole pounds or large quantities right off, especially since I don't make soap very often. Amazon has some 6 oz bags but they all say for food use, like as an emulsifier and such. Is that the same thing?
So my question is ~ is the sodium citrate used in soap the same kind used in food? Because that's what keeps coming up in searches. I priced some on the soap making websites but I don't want whole pounds or large quantities right off, especially since I don't make soap very often. Amazon has some 6 oz bags but they all say for food use, like as an emulsifier and such. Is that the same thing?
AliensrReal
Well-Known Member
It should be the same thing.
Yes, it's the same.
Um, just two?
Similar threads
