July 19, 2018...
Finally made a successful soap! It set right away! I used the mixer!
Scented with the cannabis terpene profile blend, made it again with a few adjustments, added green clay. Its sunflower and coconut oil soap!
So excited for it to fully set.
Even got to do the fancy thing on top.
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oh man the soap looks messed up. im gonna have to learn how to rebatch. theres blotches of darker dots of oil on top. the milk box one is fine, i mixed it more. the large one, it looks messed up.
i should have mixed it fully and not just half ass on top. i wonder whats going to happen to it.
.rebatching seems awful. i hope its just the top part thats messed up so it can be sliced off.
aw my first loaf soap project. another failure. i hope the milk box turns out.
im so curious what is going to happen to this blotchy loaf????
well the blotchy loaf isnt so bad after all!!! im so pleased. it has a great texture and colour, mild very faint green from the green clay and milky looking.
the only thing was the white spots.
i think they are stearic acid spots. i googled "dreaded white spots in soap" and got the dreaded orange spots a lot but i found this great soap makers blog on the white spots.
http://www.lovinsoap.com/2017/01/white-spots-in-soap/
remembering my process, i didnt fully melt the coconut oil, there were some solid pieces and i just shook it till the pieces melted. could that be the reason??? anyway i think its great and will try to do better next time. also i still have the mini milk box worth of soap to unmold and will see if the white spots are there. my kitchen knife is too thick and i didnt make a soap cutter today so unless i find a really thin knife i will make a wire cutter out of something. what, maybe a hanger and wire. idk.
here is the soap!
the bottoms (the fancy top part i thought i messed up) are softer.
reading that article i also think the soap went into false trace? i dont know!
ive used some of the shavings and it bubbles great. i will wait for the bars to harden up a bit more before trying them out. like the one experiment soap (the round one with beeswax from the cbd oil salve from stepping stone holistic) the top oils separated and i left it to dry and it took a while but it did eventually firm up. so exciting! i think the soap looks really high quality, i mean, except the white spots. and it smells amazing!!! it smells like my cannabis blend. but it also smells like soap. it smells and looks like a really nice bar of soap.
turns out the white spots are not stearic acid spots like i thought, they are just bubbles that got swiped when i cut it with a knife. because i am not using an immersion mixer/blender.
and its also ridiculously soft. bendy in the shower. i could not wait.
went to the RNMKR women in cannabis trailblazers event on wednesday the 27th and gave out the soap slices to the speakers, well not all, not the dutch company or 48north :(
so yeah its pretty soft, i think it works great though. so the next soap will be sunflower and coconut with stearic acid. so its quick and fresh cos the essential oils will evaporate. but im almost out of the french green clay (froggy)
the only lady i was able to convey that the soap was fresh was trina fraser a lawyer with a cannabis law group. https://www.blogto.com/events/rnmkrtalks-women-trailblazers-toronto/
here are some pics from the event!
it was the merchants of green coffee in the east side along broadview and carol
love that spot
got a free ticket from a pr guy named phil wong off linkedin - whew, stoked!
met a lot of amazing people, everyone was dressed to the most highly smart casual which was great. so many cool women, wow.
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june 25, ive made another cannabis soap. this one has inclusions of the previous cannabis soap. made it last night and it has sunflower, coconut, hemp seed oil and west african shea butter (given to me)
i also added some cbd oil (liquid life from med man) and some of my aromatherapy cannabis blend.
its got a buttery yellow colour from the hemp seed oil and shea butter, and the inclusions are the grey-green from the french clay. it just set this morning so i wont be cutting it till maybe tomorrow.
i think its going to be a nice soap too.
so when i made the soap i noticed a fatty surface swirl that would not mix in.
i wonder if that has anything to do with the shiny texture after using?
the shea butter given to me was said to be organic from west africa, i have no experience with shea butter cept that brand from the u.s. thats east african variety and yellow and thickly fragrant and nut buttery. this shea butter given to me was not hard, greyish translucent with a slight tinge of waxy yellow, had a gritty texture and smelled and tasted like bacon grease. weird huh. i had to try it. it smelled like bacon! i havent tried the yellow shea butter though, so maybe ill do that too.
oh woops heres me selfie taken yesterday. notice how i dont look like my blogger profile picture anymore. anyway here is the new cannabis soap but its just got inclusions of the cannabis scented soap in it. its actually the shea butter soap with hemp seed oil.
i wish i scented it. noticed people at the event while giving the soap out thought i was using individual terpenes and asked where they came from and i had to explain i was using essential oils with a high content of that terpene and did not purchase the individual chemical terpene to make a blend. yikes i hope thats not the expectation because i am no laboratory. its like when people would ask if i made the chains of my necklaces too.(not yet)
this is the one i tried out and used. cut it before it was harder so stuck the two ends together and squished it between coffee filters. made a whole new bar lol. see how shiny it is. its shinier than the green clay one. you cant see it here as its filmed over the inclusions, but it is.
made a new soap and will end this post here.
p.s.
using and giving out the soap without fair warning after reading this nice post makes me feel really awful yikes lets hope if something happens to anyones skin they will contact me.
http://sealeha.canalblog.com/archives/2010/10/13/19320484.html
Finally made a successful soap! It set right away! I used the mixer!
Scented with the cannabis terpene profile blend, made it again with a few adjustments, added green clay. Its sunflower and coconut oil soap!
So excited for it to fully set.
Even got to do the fancy thing on top.
--
oh man the soap looks messed up. im gonna have to learn how to rebatch. theres blotches of darker dots of oil on top. the milk box one is fine, i mixed it more. the large one, it looks messed up.
i should have mixed it fully and not just half ass on top. i wonder whats going to happen to it.
.rebatching seems awful. i hope its just the top part thats messed up so it can be sliced off.
aw my first loaf soap project. another failure. i hope the milk box turns out.
well the blotchy loaf isnt so bad after all!!! im so pleased. it has a great texture and colour, mild very faint green from the green clay and milky looking.
the only thing was the white spots.
i think they are stearic acid spots. i googled "dreaded white spots in soap" and got the dreaded orange spots a lot but i found this great soap makers blog on the white spots.
http://www.lovinsoap.com/2017/01/white-spots-in-soap/
remembering my process, i didnt fully melt the coconut oil, there were some solid pieces and i just shook it till the pieces melted. could that be the reason??? anyway i think its great and will try to do better next time. also i still have the mini milk box worth of soap to unmold and will see if the white spots are there. my kitchen knife is too thick and i didnt make a soap cutter today so unless i find a really thin knife i will make a wire cutter out of something. what, maybe a hanger and wire. idk.
here is the soap!
reading that article i also think the soap went into false trace? i dont know!
ive used some of the shavings and it bubbles great. i will wait for the bars to harden up a bit more before trying them out. like the one experiment soap (the round one with beeswax from the cbd oil salve from stepping stone holistic) the top oils separated and i left it to dry and it took a while but it did eventually firm up. so exciting! i think the soap looks really high quality, i mean, except the white spots. and it smells amazing!!! it smells like my cannabis blend. but it also smells like soap. it smells and looks like a really nice bar of soap.
turns out the white spots are not stearic acid spots like i thought, they are just bubbles that got swiped when i cut it with a knife. because i am not using an immersion mixer/blender.
and its also ridiculously soft. bendy in the shower. i could not wait.
went to the RNMKR women in cannabis trailblazers event on wednesday the 27th and gave out the soap slices to the speakers, well not all, not the dutch company or 48north :(
so yeah its pretty soft, i think it works great though. so the next soap will be sunflower and coconut with stearic acid. so its quick and fresh cos the essential oils will evaporate. but im almost out of the french green clay (froggy)
the only lady i was able to convey that the soap was fresh was trina fraser a lawyer with a cannabis law group. https://www.blogto.com/events/rnmkrtalks-women-trailblazers-toronto/
here are some pics from the event!
love that spot
got a free ticket from a pr guy named phil wong off linkedin - whew, stoked!
met a lot of amazing people, everyone was dressed to the most highly smart casual which was great. so many cool women, wow.
-----
june 25, ive made another cannabis soap. this one has inclusions of the previous cannabis soap. made it last night and it has sunflower, coconut, hemp seed oil and west african shea butter (given to me)
i also added some cbd oil (liquid life from med man) and some of my aromatherapy cannabis blend.
its got a buttery yellow colour from the hemp seed oil and shea butter, and the inclusions are the grey-green from the french clay. it just set this morning so i wont be cutting it till maybe tomorrow.
i think its going to be a nice soap too.
so when i made the soap i noticed a fatty surface swirl that would not mix in.
i wonder if that has anything to do with the shiny texture after using?
the shea butter given to me was said to be organic from west africa, i have no experience with shea butter cept that brand from the u.s. thats east african variety and yellow and thickly fragrant and nut buttery. this shea butter given to me was not hard, greyish translucent with a slight tinge of waxy yellow, had a gritty texture and smelled and tasted like bacon grease. weird huh. i had to try it. it smelled like bacon! i havent tried the yellow shea butter though, so maybe ill do that too.
i wish i scented it. noticed people at the event while giving the soap out thought i was using individual terpenes and asked where they came from and i had to explain i was using essential oils with a high content of that terpene and did not purchase the individual chemical terpene to make a blend. yikes i hope thats not the expectation because i am no laboratory. its like when people would ask if i made the chains of my necklaces too.(not yet)
made a new soap and will end this post here.
p.s.
using and giving out the soap without fair warning after reading this nice post makes me feel really awful yikes lets hope if something happens to anyones skin they will contact me.
http://sealeha.canalblog.com/archives/2010/10/13/19320484.html
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