Soap Makers Help!

[Morgaine]

I have a quick question about confetti soap. How much of a 4 pound log would be the chopped up soap? I was thinking a pound.

 

[cheeptrick]

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Do you have any old bars hanging around? Use those..chop them and add to your 4 lb loaf...it will be a bigger bar. You can also grate it...sprinkle on top. Have fun with it...my confetti bars are a favorite. Shoot for contrast between two soaps...like WHITE and PINK or BROWN and green...
I've been researching packaging like a mad woman...my Oct. 1st website regrand opening is approaching FAST!!

I'm going to sell 6 bars of soap packaged in gable boxes and 2 bars of soap in window coffee bags. I'm shooting for my sales to be about 200 orders this season...if I can top that I am happy. The rest will be sold at craft fairs.

 

[Morgaine]

I have 4 pounds of lavender & oatmeal soap that got deformed when my foam liner moved and the soap got behind it. It's a really funky shape and the sizes are all over the place so I'm going to use that for a couple of batches of confetti soaps. I'm thinking lavender & rose, Lavender & lemongrass, Lavender, Orange & Patchouli, and if I have any left another one of the above blends. I want it to look chunky, but not too chunky that you can't see the colored base soap.

 

[cheeptrick]

I'd just cut up a few bars...2 or 3...you could even SHAVE them into curls....do you have a cheese slicer? Potato shaver? and put the curls on top...chunks in the mold. Make sure you put some chunks in the mold before you pour your soap in...it will suspend nicer in the soap that way. I find when you just add from the top...after pouring the soap it ONLY is in the top of the bar and the soap floats. So layer it...

Post photos when you are done!!

 

[AK_Button_Mama]

is there anything that came be done if your mixture never traces? I tried to make a batch today and I mixed it for nearly an hour and it never traced... I guess I am wondering if its wasted of can I use it some other way?

 

[dun chick]

Did you use a regyualr standing mixer or a stick blender. I got a new stick blender and it ran over 25.00 but it is so much better than my old one and it's stainless steel so holds up to the heat.

 

[AK_Button_Mama]

I started with a stick blender. then I went to a food processor cause I wasnt seeing progress I poured it into moulds and it seems to be setting... I will let you all know what it looks like in the morning! I tried to use a recipe that had the lard as a super fatting...? I dunno if its a failed experiment I might learn something!

 

[Laurieks]

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yes please... I looked and can't find it... omg 131 pages in this thread

 

[Morgaine]

I think this is the one you are looking for.

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[ametauss]

Cheaptrick: I let the key limes sit out in a pan for several weeks and they were hard as a rock... I figured I couldn't do much with them so I put them in my food processor and when they didn't seem to be grinding up much I started to add canola oil and they finally became a creamy blend of oil and lime... smelled really nice...

I then poured the very thick mixture into a plastic container and put it in the freezer.... when I was ready to make my soap, I tossed it in the micro for a few seconds and then used a melon baller to scoop out about two tbls of the mixture and added it at trace... I didn't super fat since there was canola oil in with the key limes....

Key limes are very small so they dried up fairly quickly... I've not done regular limes....