jbren

It's NEVER too much when it comes to beautiful looking stuff like yours! They are ALL winners!

That's a great price...and dividers no less! You got quality and substance!

Rhonda...I used unrefined shea & cocoa butters in some of my recipes. They make nice soap. What is left of any nutrients is questionable. They, along with things like pureed avocado, cucumber, aloe, carrots, etc. certainly add label appeal to your soap, but I don't know that there is any proof that any of their original properties come thru.

As far as adding after trace...there have been many and varied opinions on this. Lye doesn't discriminate, so adding anything before it does it's 'thing' in saponification, I believe, is futile.

Now, HP...that's another subject up for discussion re: superfatting oils.

Soap is a wash-off product. You can have a nice conditioning bar using shea or cocoa butter or other nice oils, but nothing is going to moisturize...it will clean without ripping your skin off.

Soap is meant to clean...period. You are better off saving your expensive oils/butters for lotion or cream for after bathing.

WOW! Does anyone know how to make this soap?

It looks very involved.

see my post above.

Yay! Thanks! They are cool!

I got the handbag also, and couldn't find any soaps doing a search.

The link doesn't show anything for me, but if it's what I'm thinking of, you can make them in plastic cups, layering, tiltling the cups for some layers, using LOTS of mica. After they are finished and the cup torn/cut away, you can carve them with a knife to the shape of natural gemstones.

There are some in this link:

http://www.thesensualcandle.com/soaprocks.html?gclid=COvq-7T84JMCFQUjGgodHFHvVg

Thanks Meridith!

I never tried it. There are too many good ready-made bases out there to even bother.

Just don't use the Grey Goose!

Those are so cool jbren!! What's behind the carrot juice? The beta carotene?

Thank you!

Well, as far as the benefits of the carrot juice, or anything like it, I don't think we know WHAT is left, if anything after the lye. I've used carrot juice, pureed carrot, tomato juice, etc. in other soaps, and I think more than anything, there is the label appeal. Hey...if Burt's can do it......

MY reason for using the carrot juice was more for color, as I thought adding more pumpkin would make for a soft soap. While the combination of the carrot juice and the pumpkin temporarily stained my Kelsei mold orange, you can see that the resulting soap was NOT orange...so there went that theory too!

I keep coming back to look at that Silk Haiku...toothpick, huh? LOL

Well, whatever you did/do...it's just gorgeous!

I've made soap with amber resin infused into my olive oil. Discolored somewhat, but that's it. The scent is wonderful!

But will it come out that red using opaque mp base? or only the clear will work?

It worked in CP, so I don't know why it wouldn't work in a white MP base. If I have time tomorrow, I'll try a small bit.

I make a kitchen bar with Pumpkin Cornbread.

For a 36 oz. oil batch, I used 8 oz carrot juice

4 oz pureed pumpkin. I also add yellow cornmeal (2.5 oz for this small batch)

I sell them tied with fabric to the IKEA soapdishes. They sell very well.

I'm a pouf gal myself, but it could be the FO. However, it shouldn't be permanently stained after proper laundering.

What is it? I know it's a soap mold now, but what was it originally? Does it come apart?

Edited: Ahhh...I just read your other thread and now I know it's a tray! Great find~!

I do the same as Scented. I get my soap just past emulsification then divide it, do what I have to do and pour. Then by the time you're done with working on the second part, the first layer is able to support the second.

I also pour the second layer gently over a spatula.

Screwing it in too tight will make the sides bow. I found, when I got my years ago, that wrapping the very bottom piece very tightly in 2 layers of saran wrap before putting the sides on prevented leaking.

Only time I've ever gotten deep red like that was with DragonLily colors, now sold by Soap Silly. Extreme Red.

just beautiful!

What is your secret with getting the gold to stand out as it does? Do you mix it with soap or another oil or something? You've got it down to a science from what I can see in all your gorgeous soaps!

very pretty, the colors are so soft.

They are both lovely, but that second one is really grabbing my eye! The colors are fantastic!

looks great!

That is gorgeous...I love the translucence of it!