New Soaps

hey i realize now i cut the soaps too early.
this is a 250 gram total custom bar,

scented with the basic fougere, essential oils and veramoss and coumarin wow it smells Amazing!!!

 This is the oranger crystal fisco, turned into a bunch of tom thompsons. go figure. scented with the stationary scent (gotta call it something else now) my first synthetics only fragrance smells quite edible and cosmetic
(its now slowly turning darker beige / tan)

the stash awaits its paper boxes

some glycerin soaps i made with no recipe - the purple one is sooooo great mild and bubbly great for my hands while working on the projects i always have to wash and my terrible habit of cutting and usng the soap too early sometimes causes my hands to get extremely dried up so these glycerin soaps i make are now my fave for right away use. these and the liquid soap. oh yeah ive made two different liquid soaps!

*new update with details! *

here are the soaps on the shelf

 

this is the lava soap made of african black soap and coconut oil soap and activated charcoal (its the one that i tried to make look like lava) (actually it was an accident and i went with it) there are 3 but this was the most artistic one

strawberry pinq soap !


this was a shea butter addition soap with a lavender alcohol bottom (that line on the bottom of darker soap is the most clear and lovely soap) but i didnt temper the batch or something so the shea butter was grainy and it didnt lather that much and it smelled weird i didnt scent it or scented it strange (which happens frequently i use a weird perfume as a soap fragrance because most times the weirdness disappears and its a nice smell but this was not one of those times)

 some table scraps... my poor dog

 this is rose swirl im not sure if they look grotesque or not. im just gonna say they dont, to save my feelings.

 these are fresh lilac bars they smell great, heady, lilac, floral, not for those who dislike flower scents, this is that classic lilac scent

these are my *favorite* but i hacked the loaf very badly and all the bars are unevenly cut (so sad) these soaps were measured perfectly and theyve cured to perfection,,,,,the scent of blackberries and violet leaf this soap is divine

these are lack lye fiasco bars that finally cured into the mildest full of glycerin bars, and they are quite large, much larger than all the rest at 750 divided by 3 (250 grams per bar)

these are little tiny soaps made into a bigger tiny soap. they are shards of mainly glycerin soap trials and colouring experiments and they are super adorable i love the colours. they are made using ice cube molds.

 

these are the strawberry soaps so cute i made them spur of the moment in a burst of creative energy (but according to camh thats called mania and needs to medicated with sedation drugs? )

 these are glycerin bars that took forever to cure - too long to cure actually
they smell ok, not my fave but i love the colour, i havent tried them, i think they are super mild though i wonder about how bubbly they are!

 

this is a new process i came up with that makes the cold process soap more translucent, i called this soap happy soap and i created a lemon verbena like scent for it.

this is another glycerin soap same time i made the aqua one. its SUPER bubbly !!!! but not very clear at all. you can tell its got a different texture and it smells nice. it should smell like grapes but it smells like something sweet.

 there are also loads of soap blocks which i havent taken pictures of. im trying to batch some lye but its taken me 4 days i havent done it yet i am very distracted with trauma stress right now (no weed) and no food (hungry and cant think clearly)

Liquid Soap from Rebatch Lye Heavy Soap

Making liquid soap from rebatched lye heavy soap is super great! Only thing is you need to know how much oil to put in. Ive made two liquid soaps from a rebatch and this last one was the best!
Because I knew how much oil i forgot. But now what Ive winged it 4 times and followed with great success two online recipes i think i can eyeball the amount of extra oil i can add into the rebatch and still come away with something soapy. Alternately you can make a small amount of new soap to add in the rebatch if using over fatted glycerin river type soaps.
When you rebatch for liquid soap add alcohol to the grated soap and heat it in the crock pot. i was lucky to find an unused looking mini one at value village. i havent died from using it or any of the soaps so i guess its ok to sell soaps made using the second hand crock pot? like what if they cooked chopped up dogs that passed of old age, or road kill squirrels? would i know?
So back to rebatching the grated soap, ive been using the ratio i found online from evik and the french lady on youtube, for the extra liquids you add melted stearic acid in the end, but during the process you add in glycerin and sugar and salt and ive been using xylitol because i cant get sorbitol right now, ive also used sodium lactate, ive added ipm at the end, i only use distilled water, i use the strong ethanol with camphor because its the only one i can find at 94% proof at the shop, and dilute it for spraying, it makes the soap smell cool and as if it smelled like what evaporation would smell like. but not evaporation from hot sidewalks or car roofs. more like the evaporation of a strong mint tea, or a pot of simmering herbs, and cold. the soap to water ratio aimed for is no more than 100 grams total until the end of procedure for up to 300 grams soap for a solid soap, but for the liquid soap its up to you how watery you want it, but i add the water at the very end. im not using potassium hydroxide which is what youre supposed to use for liquid soap. i cant find it locally. so making the soap is difficult and long because i always peek and need to stir and sometimes scrape down the sides but apparently i saw on youtube you can cover the pot with plastic wrap and never stir it but im not sure i have the right pot for that. so i add first alcohol, up to 50 grams,  cover pot and let that dissolve the grated soap in heat. after a while, since my little pot is little, 15 mins or so, i check and give it a stir, spraying top of soap with alcohol so it doesnt dry out. i add a mixture of sugar xylitol glycerin salt water a bit at a time, up to 50 grams, ive used more, sparying the bubbles that form as i break up the soap paste, i keep doing this until it forms a uniform paste and cover, at some point the paste start to liquify at the base and i usually keep adding more grated soap until the pot is full, about 500 grams. until the entire thing is full, paste, and starts to liquify, i keep spraying it with alcohol and cover it and leave it covered until i can blend in melted stearic acid. i have been adding half the recommended stearic acid for liquid soap, about 20 grams for about 400 grams soap. when the soap is liquified (the top usually has bubbles which i remove because im impatient) i pour in the melted stearic acid and blend the soap in the crock pot and remelt the entire thing, occasionally spraying the top so it never dries out, then this clarifies again and then you can add water, at this point,  the soap should not be cloudy. Add preservative at cooling! No way is this soap going to go bad I want to keep it forever because it took so long to make. This is a long process that takes hours but yields an insanely mild and lovely liquid soap. I am using the melt and pour glycerin soap recipe from evik (curious-soapmaker.com) and a comment from her blog, a translation from a french youtube video for the structure and ratio concepts. I have a huge bottle of home made liquid soap now and im going to experiment with it for shampoo, and other washes because i got some SLSa powder. Its supposed to be not sls but i dont know why i got it actually, i got it to add to watery moisturizers for thick body washes. also im super excited to smell this soap.  the soap was the lemon milk (vanilla) and a creamy magnolia (new perfume blend!)
I never liked vanilla but it turns out when i use it in blends i freakin love it.
lol the soap turned into a thick gel like paste the next morning. maybe try No Stearic Acid. guess whos making some soap cream experiments today?

Happy New Year Soap

Yay I finally made a glycerin / transparent soap !

I even used an experimental ingredient!

I used eviks recipe at curious soap maker as the guideline, and a youtube video in french found in a comment on her blog.

Totally worked!

Its very mild, not drying, no worries on lye heavy, meltable? havent tried... can add fragrance and superfat butter and clay etc without too much calculating...? maybe !

so this was better than stressing out. hm. im ok i want to make so many different ones now. i want to make a cold process transparent soap... possible?

wow the soap is great feels nice on my skin, super mild, its a stearic acid soap, it'll last forever probably. will try a shea butter one later.

here are the pics!

the date sucks! the camera is dying and it just wouldnt let me change the date so i didnt.

 here is monkey enjoying his new status as quality control manager

will try melting the soap later

Happy new year!
New soap :)

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the soap remelts perfectly! to reduce white inclusions, you must continue spraying the entire surface including the inside of the container with ethanol. if the surface dries, it will skin, and white inclusions of trapped air will ruin the translucence. added shea butter but did not know how much, and it was so lovely!! the best non drying soap. aded shea at 15% and it was too much (but im unsure because this was the soap left for a week due to the disruption) and the shea butter after pouring out into the mold, had precipitated out of the soap and was sitting on top. bit strange. so a lower amount should suffice, say 8% maximum.
 haven't tried to add fragrance or essential oils to a remelt yet, that will be next!

Soap Making Update

Here are all the pics I haven't inserted in the soap making posts.
All in one Bar !

 this is my favorite soap
its almost finished cos i accidentally started using it because it smells so good

 and also because the bars are so badly cut i dont want to sell them which is unfortunate

 because despite the bad cuts

 its a ghost soap

 by accident. i mismeasured and made the mold too big and made another batch to put on top but by the time the soap and fragrance blend was ready to pour, the other soap was already gelling,

 the smell... only starting to come back now, a month later.... i still have about 5 bars

 my fave soap so far, the ideal coconut oil soap ratio

 scented with blackberry and violet leaf which i named ivy league pillow party: purple garden poison. i kind of want to incorporate it into the smoking violets .... which hasnt been fully made and is getting a rewrite.

Shampoo bar i made

It sucked. maybe just try to shampoo your hair with your newly made soap just once instead of four times in a row they said.

Chypre Sunflower Stearic Acid Soap (cold process - gel phase)

Sunflower soap with Stearic Acid scented with the classic Chypre

im so excited to use this in the shower!!!!
and what concentration?

going to replicate the same recipe. i posted it on twitter. and no trying to gel phase it. the gel phased soap is still soft and i cant smell any of the mild blend i added in.

so i will add the .5 grams of the oil blend at trace because thats what i did with the first cannabis soap (the coconut one) and how the scent dissipates is amazing.

OK I HAVE MADE THE SOAP
couldnt find the container so i ended up using a milk carton. then i found the container but it was too late.

put it by the window about 10-20 mintes after mixing in the essential oil blend (because i was hesitant to gel phase it due to the citrus oils and heat) but im glad i did. i wonder how long this will take to dry and what colour it will end up. it wasnt as bright white as the original sunflower with stearic acid soap due to the essential oil blend.

 see that cracked surface
its a good sign according to eviks blog

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going to make one more with the peru balsam chypre blend i made last night.

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i didnt. i made the regular chypre with the green chypre (i made two versions, one has a green note from cape may and green coffee and actual cannabis live resin "atomic jack" strain)

so here is the gelled soap unboxed. i put it in the freezer for a bit because i am impatient.

its not as white as the unscented one. to note: the unscented one kind of smells like stale cooking oil now. im not sure if it smells like that when used though
:(

and here is the other one, not gelled

this soap smells great. its got this classic cologne scent.
pops out of the mold really easy. i suppose some point ill have an actual soap mold. or find another suitable organizer.

this girl said the chypre scent to her smells like some kind of chest rub?
i was disappointed. lol.
the benzoin vetiver and sandalwood blend she said smells like grass and wood. so i guess thats pretty accurate. overall impression i dont think she liked either of them. lol.
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 they are so nice and shiny when polished a bit

 

Soft Oil soap with Stearic Acid

making a stearic acid soap while reading about the stearic acid saponification
and found this!! http://swiftcraftymonkey.blogspot.com/2017/07/lushs-main-emulsifier-stearic-acid-and.html

here is the post on twitter and will upload it on the blog later with details

https://twitter.com/AromatherapyTO/status/1014500913279651842

ok wow this soap
i need to do it again
and leave it in the mold!!
and add no scent
because this is the first evidence of gel phase, except for the initial trials when i didnt fully know what i was doing.and since i took it out of the mold, is this partial gel phase? because it would have just kept melting and turned into clear liquid again probably.

here are the pics
weighed everything out

 melting the stearic acid

 added the oils and the stearic acid solidified again

 reheating the oils and stearic acid

 right before boiling point of the water in the pan

 hot enough so i turned it off

 mixed in the lye and oils at around 100 degrees Fahrenheit

 was thick right upon contact of the lye

 this is after using the mixer

 such a creamy batter

 after a couple hours it was popping out of the mold

 so i popped it out

 and thought this was it

 then i wanted it to gel phase (outside of the mold was wrong)

 and it did!!!!!

 it almost collapsed when i checked the box. actually i put it out in the sun outside, then i took it back in because i changed my mind then i put it back in the box and by the window under the sun and by the time the sun moved it must have been less than an hour, i checked the box and it was So Soft and i freaked out cos its gel

so now its cooling off and it looks super nice.
will repeat the sun-gel phase and measure the temperature to see if the essential oils i can add will dissipate during process

ok its cut.
yipee!!!
(5 pm)
so if i moved quicker it would have been done by 3!!

im using one half for me
in the shower
today.

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ok i just touched it.
it feels oily and its a bit cold and theres a bit of precipitation on it. maybe ill wait till tomorrow to use it.

ok it took me 5 seconds to slice off a bit and use it on my hands and its kinda soft and it totally works and i can faintly smell the hemp seed oil and the cannabis blend

this soap if repeated may take forever to fully harden because its ins value is very low (98) despite it already having fully saponified.  leaves a nice feeling on my hand and a natural plant / straw scent on my skin. ugh i want to use it right now but i dont want it to melt all away in the shower and its probably super alkaline. where are those test strips?
i have zero patience.

tomorrow will remake the cannabis soap with french green clay and gel phase it with hopes the essential oils wont dissipate.
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(i havent done this i made other soaps)

these bars are kind of squishy and i havent tried them yet in the shower i want them a bit firmer before ruining them :D

--- this sunflower soap with stearic acid (ungelled) goes slimy after a few uses. booo. will wait till the end of the month and try again after saponification is done.