smartdog

WOW Kristy! That is brilliant!

You can also use Pink UM

That is very cool!

WOW! Those are first time soaps??? I am impressed!

Thank you!

You're right..I should! I just realized I've been a member here for over 3 years and I've only posted 38 times!

Just dropping in to read the forum tonight and realized

a/ I don't post here much do I?

b/ why don't I?

c/ Ok...let's get back to posting some stuff.

Luscious Lemongrass

Activated Charcoal:

Creamy Coconut:

Malabar Coast:

Deep Blue Sky:

I've always been wanting to do a really nice kitchen coffee scrubby bar and today I've made a "small 10 lb" test batch. LOL My small batches never end up just for me.

The goal of this recipe was to use rice bran oil instead of olive oil.

The "luxury" oils will push this one a bit over the top.

Please do not share this recipe on any other forums/websites/etc. without the original formulator's written permission. This recipe remains the soul property of Bryna Tracy of Luv4Country Soaps.

The Scrubby Bar!

Base Oils:

Coconut Oil 35 oz

Palm Oil 19 oz

Kpangnan Butter (Pai-Nya) 20 oz

Rice Bran Oil 40 oz

Avocado Oil 15 oz

Additives:

Tussah Silk Fibers 2 tbsp

Sandalwood FO 3 oz.

Black Coffee FO 3 oz.

Brambleberry's Vanilla Select FO. 3 oz.

*AWESOME BLEND! Yummy and Sensual.

used spent Kicking Horse coffee grains for scrubbies approx. 1 cup per just over a 10 lb. batch

Lye discount: 5 %

Lye needed: 18.21 oz

Water discount: 20 %

Water needed: 35.72 oz (Use COLD brewed coffee as your water if you like) I did

Bryna

I bought his molds a couple of years ago. They are not pleasant! They warp/soap sticks/just not practical at all. It was a total waste of money in my honest opinion. I LOVE my handmade wooden log molds. I'd rather line (which I can do very quickly) then have to deal with bad molds.

Real cute Jackie!

Thank you All! I greatly appreciate all the wonderful feedback!

I haven't been very active, as spring/summer dictates I spend most of my time with chores around the farm/vegetable gardening/and generally enjoying the warm weather . Here is the last batch that I did this past week.

Scented with FOH's Indonesian Teak.

Coloured with brewed coffee (main part of batch), cinammon, and black oxide.

swift: try "Scent Sanctuary"

I've been using Natrasorb Bath from a Canadian distributor, and I wouldn't mind knowing if the two are the same too. It would appear so, as far as both being a tapioca starch. But, by asking National Starch, who supplies it, you might get a better answer.

If you have a local butcher, you can more than likely bye a ream of butcher paper off of them. When you line your mold, put the shiny side out, towards the soap. It works wonderfully, and easy to peel away once unmolded.

The Avocado Oil I've bought from Columbus Foods/Soapers Choice (Mike) has always been a very light yellow. Nice stuff.

I highly recommend them for actually everything you have on your list.

Brambleberry's Karma (essential oil blend) is a wonderful dupe of the original. Also, if you add a touch of patchouli to it, it's knock dead gorgeous

Quite pretty. Did you mix your own rose and sandalwood or use one that's premade?

Scented: It's a blend of two different rose fo blends, and a sandlewood.

Sandlewood really calms down that "old lady" scent that some rose fo's have. Even my DH likes this blend, and he HATES rose. LOL

Thanks all for the wonderful compliments!

Scented with rose and sandlewood/dusted with gold and antique gold micas/rose colour top coloured with rose clay.

In the mold:

Cut Pic:

Bryna

I've been pretty non-existant on this forum for awhile. I've been exceedingly busy preparing for a large show this year. The batches I've been doing range in the 70 to 120 bar range. Here's a sample of the last 7 batches I've done in the past two weeks.

Top to bottom: Limon Spritzer/Pine Tar/Daze of Wine & Roses/Mother & Child/OMH/Lime Splash/Herbal Garden

Bryna

Yep..co-ops/farm supply stores. :highfive:

I've tested a small cut off as of today, and great lather/non drying, the scent is holding true..so far. I've used this scent in other soap i've made knowing that it is a good long lasting fragrance. So, I'll keep an eye as we test over the next couple of months once it's cured out completely.

Doing some reading in the forums about the properties of pine tar, and thought I'd try a small batch for myself/dh to see if I'd like it. Most of the people who'd made it said trace is VERY fast, and you could end up with soap on a stick. I used a 20% water discount, whisked for approx. 20 seconds. Yes, it did trace fast, but not so fast that it wasn't pourable. I let it gel, unmolded and cut last night. Scented with BB's Sleigh Ride, which covered the pine tar scent quite nicely. Smells like pine trees and crisp cold winds!

Lathers like a mofo!

Today I am trying Bohunk's #14 scrub, and it's turning out quite "whippy" which is nice, it's very light. Used white and demarerra in todays.