CareBear Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 I've got a ton of this stuff and thought I'd soap it to use it up since I don't really care for it in anything else.melt it. add cocoa powder and sugar..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
guppygirl Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 Carol, I will probably put some of this soap in mysticals soap swap so you guys can try it out. I'll probably do two half bars, this one and another.Woo-hoo - so glad I joined!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xava Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 Sounds lovely!It also sounds very similar to my cocoa butter bar recipe. The only reason I said that was because of the beeswax comment. If it was my recipe, it certainly didn't need the beeswax for hardening, I used it to try to compliment the cocoa butter smell. Don't think it did what I expected at the time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thecandlespastore Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 My Flowerbomb soap was over 70% shea, I shared it with a few people here, and sold out of it like hot cakes. Everyone remarked on how wonderful it is, and I love it myself (my hubby even uses it.) I have been thinking about the cocoa butter too. Wonder what a shea/cocoa butter combo would be like. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azure68 Posted August 16, 2006 Share Posted August 16, 2006 For my first time doing CP, I used 12.% cocoa butter and 12.5% shea. The batch recipe also had olive oil and coconut oil in it. I reached medium trace within 2 minutes with the stick blender. I scented it with Dutch Chocolate FO and swirled with cocoa and gold micas. It cured to a very hard bar, feels nice and smells so good.This was how it looked after it was freshly cut:It has since darkened considerably because of the fragrance oil. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Grumpy Girl Posted August 17, 2006 Author Share Posted August 17, 2006 Ohh, those are pretty! Mine are awfully plain compaired to those, but I knew my FO would turn into yet another brown soap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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