ZOWIE, where has the month of June gone?
I am trying to keep up with June soaping only to turn around and discover that July has overtaken me. I got so swept up in doing research for new recipes, I have been lax in writing about what’s on the curing rack. So now, on to more soap:
Here is a bar scented with Cedarwood & Sage EO blend. We added Cinnabar colorant and Poppy Seeds. We’ve been absolutely loving all the EO blends we’ve gotten from Wholesale Supplies Plus and the colorants from TKB Trading.
The scent blends are just delightful and have been working very well in cold process soap. We got the colorants that are suspended in glycerin and it’s been pretty easy to use and blend in to our batches.
This bar looks kind of funky because the ground loofa was not very easy to cut, at least not with the crinkle cutter. So there are drag marks and little chunk that came off when the crinkle cutter hit the loofa. We tried a 50/50 palm and rice bran recipe for this batch. We scented it with lemon EO & ylang-ylang and added yellow colorant and poppy seeds along with ground loofa.
I’ve been using a lot of rice bran oil in my soaps. I have also used this oil in lotions. I find it absorbs really easily in to the skin and is not greasy at all. Rice bran really not terribly expensive so i’ve been using it in place of olive oil overall. (Until I made the fatal error of trying a test batch of Castile.)
It’s happened, I’ve become a Castile soap junkie. I don’t know how, I did not think it was possible. I’d read so much about how it could take the greater portion of my life to get it to trace. How I’d have to wait eons for it to harden and cure. I thought I had gotten away scot free from the allure of olive oil in my soap recipes but alas, I guess all that saved olive oil will find it’s way in to 100% OO soap.
The soap still has pretty small lather, but it’s very emollient and the Sensuality type blend from Wholesale Supplies Plus is wonderful. Even though the bar hardened up right away from doing the water discount, I will still have to wait a while for this bar to cure.
This 4th of July weekend I tried my hand at rebatching with goat milk. I’ll take some pics and post more about the rebatch in an upcoming post.
The texture on the Cedarwood Sage bar looks very rich and creamy.
I’ve never done a 50/50 Palm RBO blend but it sounds great. =)
rice bran oil is the best oil for everything. i also use it to cook with.
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