Soap Makers Help!

[Dipsy Doodle Doo]

Hi! Beautiful, beautiful soaps!
Oats & Honey Goatmilk soap is one of my favorites (I get a kick out of the surface texture from the bubblewrap).
I made the most boring soap yesterday for a special request (4 lbs lard w/ goatmilk). Hahaha! At the last minute, I decided to try 'Hot Process' for the first time (I decided just as it was beginning to trace and was ascrambling to rig up a big double boiler). I just let it 'cook' on low about 3 hours... stir... stir... stir... stirrr...
But then it was poured, cooled, out of the mold, and cut in about an hour! Of all the crazy things, mold is a wood box that had been built to ship fluorescent light bulbs --- *almost* perfect size, minor modification to 3 1/2"x40" and made 19 bars. Instead of waiting for it to cure, it's ready to go.

Lisa
*note to self --- wear goggles because cooking soap burps*

 

[Sooner]

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Wonderful!! Thanks, I will be ordering sometime in the next day or two. Since I am giving as Christmas gifts I thought I should enclude the men! LOL.

Your soap looks wonderful as always!

 

[RockyToggRanch]

Those are beautiful pix of your soaps. I love how you show each one labeled as well as naked. Also like your packaging
I'm still working on all of that. Thanks for the well wishes.

eta..Lake Effect is a wintery fragrance oil...is is sort of manly. I did a white with a blue swirl. It was a special request from my Ski-Doo daughter and her friends I have it 1/2 sold already.

 

[Morgaine]

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Wonderful!! Thanks, I will be ordering sometime in the next day or two. Since I am giving as Christmas gifts I thought I should enclude the men! LOL.

Your soap looks wonderful as always!

Moonworks has a great scent called Earthen Oak, very deep, earthy and manly but it is a PITA to soap. Green Irish Tweed and Burberry for Men are very very well behaved even with a very concentrated lye solution. Dragon's Blood can move on you if you are soaping warm or with a deep water discount.

Men I have noticed really like Lavender and Citrus scents as well.

 

[RockyToggRanch]

I have dragons blood in my arsenal...I need to get to that as soon as I get through my holiday scents. Cinnamon balsam and maybe frankinsence and myrrh this weekend. I have a baggie of frankinsence tears..what do you do with that? I have EO's of both as well. I should also get to a eucalyptus...

I've bought a few lots of supplies from ex-soapers. Good deals, but a few things that I'm clueless about.

 

[Morgaine]

You can either infuse the tears in oil or alcohol/water mix(you have to burn the alcohol off before use). I have infused Dragon's blood resin before in oil and used in soap but not frankinsense.

 

[Sooner]

Reading that just shows how much I still have to learn! I think I will be making honey almond again this weekend & who knows what! LOL. Not much to choose from until I get another order in.....

 

[RockyToggRanch]

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How would I infuse in oil? In a cloth of some type? Or just loose and pour the oil off the top leaving the residue? If I were to add the powder to the soap as well, what wouls be the harm? Is it an irritant?

 

[Morgaine]

I have not researched Frank tears so I am not sure if it is an irritant or if it would be scratchy if you put it right into the soap.

To infuse it in oil is very simple thought. How many tears do you have? If it is about 1/2 cup I would use 2-3 cups of oil (most people use olive or jojoba) and put that into a double boiler or a crock pot on low and heat it for several hours. Then I would transfer into jars and let it infuse for a couple of weeks. When you are ready to use, you will need to strain the oil, I use coffee filters. It may take more than once to get all the drit off the bottom.

 

[RockyToggRanch]

Those of you who sell your soaps...Do you have product liability insurance?