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I bought them from Tradewinds. Pretty reasonable for the sampler of all the bottles. Then you can print a color chart and it tells you how to mix the 8 different colors to make more colors.

I used the Select Shades. The only morphing that I have experienced was with the Hyacinth Chula Orchid when I tried to get purple and instead I got that aqua color.

They are nice, very concentrated, easy to blend.

Okay, guys! Sorry I have been on the quiet side but I have been busy with my recovering husband (foot surgery), work, and my soap!

Enjoy! And, if I participate in the swap, I would only be able to share the Hyacinth Chula Orchid. The other three are for a swap!

http://www.candletech.com/forums/showthread.php?t=23475

I made this recipe up from scratch using the guidelines on "making your own soap recipe." Got to try my Misty Creek mold...very nice!

Hopefully this will work!

The four soaps!

Finally, my blend of Patchouli EO with Amber and Vanilla FO. This is for the man in my life who wanted something not so foofy.

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Well, I cut up a batch that I made yesterday with a different FO but with the same recipe and although the lye had that funky perm smell when I added the coconut milk, it didn't come out in the soap. I think that in my case the lye must have morphed my FO (JS Hyacinth Chula Orchid) into something else.

Has anyone used coconut milk or coconut water in place

of water when making CP Soap?

What were the results?

Did it have a funny smell when the soap was cut and curing?

Did it go orange in the lye?

Because it's oily, would it react funny with the lye?

I made my first soap with coconut milk and it smells like perm solution at the salon. Is that the smell that you are thinking of? I just made a batch a couple of days ago and it seems to be less "stinky" than the first day.

I never had this smell before so I thought it must be the coconut milk.

First...Welcome!

Where in So Cal do you live? And, what are you looking to buy? The most expensive will be waxes and jars/containers. Shipping for FO's, wicks and such are not too bad.

Just thinking out loud, but I wonder if you could add some sweetener (not sugar of course) like stevia or splenda. Maybe that might make it more palatable. But, not sure if the lye might do something to the molecules that might make it bitter. I wouldn't use aspartame (Nutrasweet) because I would guess that it would split the molecules up and have a bitter effect rather than sweet (the reason you can't bake with Nutrasweet).

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I have a couple of recipes in mind. The FO is the next thing. Hopefully, I will get my Misty Creek mold on Monday and I will be making soap!

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Wow! Now that is a pretty batch o' soap!

Great job!

These are so adorable.

It looks like the "water" is moving in the log mold!

You rock, girlfriend!

Wow...the discoloration of both bars is absolutely gorgeous!

Brenda and Robin...you have some purty soaps there! And, I love sandalwood!

You can typically find it at health food stores...it might be with the oils or it could be with the vitamins.

Vegans use it on their food for fatty acid supplement, especially the raw food enthusiasts.

Those are so cool!

Those are going to be very popular at the party!

Since charcoal acts like a sponge and is absorbant, I would guess that it would be difficult to scent.

I would go very light if you choose to do it!

Can you imagine what the washcloth would look like if you put in too much?

I love, love, love that second soap. The confetti look like fireworks!

You rock, girlfriend!

Maybe get a static decal that you can put on the inside window? I can't imagine it would be too expensive, except is the sign is really big. I'm sure they would charge based on size and how many colors. If you have the logo already done, it should be pretty easy.

Look for a printing shop in the yellow pages.

Not sure about this, so I'm not sure I am much help, just throwing ideas out!

I wouldn't have guessed that those where your first swirlies!

I think they look fabulous!

Great colors and I like how they look with the wavy cutter!

When I first started soaping, I came across a website that had an ocean bar (lathers in salt water):

Ocean Voyagers Body Bar (lathers in Salt Water)

14 ounces of coconut oil

2 ounces macadamia nut oil

2.7 ounces lye

7 ounces water

1 teaspoon lavender essential oil

ohhh,this looks nice!

I like that has other oils than just coconut! I might use this one to start with and sub the anise oil. Thanks! And, I have macadamia oil!

Thanks so much!

I would go with 100% coconut 8-10% superfat and apply shea at the end of the day

If you look around you'll find different sap values for coconut. There have been several test using the lower sap w/100% coconut that weren't drying at all

I'll have to try that as well in one of my batches!

I guess I wouldn't worry so much about lather for the purpose of the soap versus what we really want in a shower. Either way he'll be clean...right?

I like to infuse my oils & water with anise seed too. & ground anise in the soap too for scrubby effect. I figure if you scrub, you get all the dead skin cells off and have more of a fresh anise fragrance left behind.

Mind you, I don't fish. Its just my theory which could totally be off base too.

Actually, this was my plan! I wasn't going to infuse the oils but I found a huge bag of ground star anise and wanted to try to use that as well. I'm sure that it would hold it's scent better with the ground star anise.

It's not that I am worried about lather...Even if it suds just a bit we are fine. I'm more concerned that he will be lathering in salt water and rinsing in salt water and will the end result be too drying? If his hands are too dry, he is more likely to have his skin split (even those fine ones) but they hurt in the salt water!

Since part of the anise soap legend is that the fish can't detect the human scent (from the bait and hook)...it needs to be strong enough to take sunscreen off of his hands.

Thanks!

I always thought this recipe looked interesting.... "Break the Rules"

http://www.teachsoap.com/rulessoap.html

But it's got GM which you probably don't want...

I might try this later...I don't have enough soaping experience to venture into milk. It appears that is a tricky area and I really want to know what I am doing before I go there. But, I have that site bookmarked...I will definitely keep that in mind for later batches!

Thanks!

DH wants me to make a fisherman's soap for testing on his boat. Summer is coming and he really wants to do an experiment (totally scientific, of course:laugh2: ) to see if it really works. He has a "no skunk" policy on his boat. (For those of you who don't fish, when you catch your first fish, you throw the skunk overboard. If you come home empty handed, you got skunked).

I have the anise EO on it's way. Since we live in San Diego, we need soap that will lather in saltwater. So, I know it will need to have lots of coconut oil.

So my questions are:

1. Since coconut oil can make a very drying soap and saltwater is drying...is it better to add some moisturizing oil and go maybe 75-80% coconut? If so, what oils do you recommend?

or...

2. Will this be enough like the salt bar recipe that it won't be drying but instead of putting the salt in the soap, the salt is in the water. In that case go 95-100% coconut?

I'm sure that I will have to make several test batches for him....you know for the science of it all.

TIA!