Soap Makers Help!

[Morgaine]

Very Pretty!!

Here is a picture of my Green Man soap. It has Lime, Eucalyptus, Lemongrass, Texas Cedar and Patchouli eo's with coco powder and chrome green oxide. I made a Jack Frost Scent a couple of weeks ago. It is a eo blend of Fir, peppermint, Palmrosa, rosemary and cedar. It's a white on white swirl dusted with iridescent mica.

 

[ChicksterJo]

Oo! I want to see it, but there's no picture

 

[Morgaine]

Whoops! I forgot the picture lol.
Here is Green Man. I will hopefully get some pictures of Jack Frost next week.

 

[ChicksterJo]

Nice!! Reminds me of camo.

 

[WomanInTheWoods]

Oh! Both of you ladies' soaps are so BEAUTIFUL!!!

CJ~ that blue & cream swirl is what I'm aiming for for my sister's soaps! I love your swirls, they're so delicate. I'm scared to death I'm going to flop at them. lol

Morgaine, I am so in love with that Green Man soap!!!

That one would be just for me. I would hoard every bar. No doubt about it.

Thanks for the inspiration ladies!!! You give me something to aspire to, that's for sure!

Maybe I'll leave the nutmeg out of the honeysuckle soap. I've had calendula & chamomile infusing in some olive oil on the back of the stove (gets rewarmed & shaken regularly that way) for a few weeks now. Do you think that will give me a bit of yellow? I don't need a lot, subtle is ok...

ETA: I've used egg yolk in one soap batch before, but it was a dark soap, so I couldn't tell a color difference... do you think adding an egg yolk would nudge a bit more yellow in there???

 

[ChicksterJo]

I haven't tried making yellow. If you use the calendula and chamomile infused oil, I'd like to see the soap's color. I want some yellow in my mix too

Tomorrow I'm going to do more lavender but I will also make some big shavings off my "basics" soap that's been curing almost a couple weeks. Should I get the lavender soap to a thicker trace so that the shavings would be suspended in it?

Thanks for the compliments, WitW! I use the tip of my digital thermometer to make those swirls..lol

 

[MullersLaneFarm]

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I bet that smells wonderful!!


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Palmrosa?? I totally can imagine the rest together, but the palmrosa throws me a bit ... does it 'sweeten' it up??

 

[Morgaine]

The palmrosa goes really nicely with the woodsy notes. The stuff I have is not very rosey at all. It smells very green not camphorous, but like rose leaves I would say. I was trying to round out the harsher fir notes

 

[MullersLaneFarm]

I have to remember to resniff my palmrosa! Last I remembered it was pretty 'rosey' ... not camphorus at all.

I have all those EO's but Fir ... I'm wanting to try a bit of mixing these up! They are all pretty dominant EO's ... did you use equal parts or a bit more peppermint & palmrosa then the rest?

 

[Morgaine]

The fir is dominate scent for sure, which is what I wanted. And then comes the peppermint with the base notes of cedar. You don't get the rosemary and palmrosa indivually, but they did help develop the fir from a straight christmas tree scent to something with a little more mystery

Like I said, my palmrosa is NOT rosey. I got it from Lebermuth and was very dissapointed. To me, it is a little cleaner and sweeter than rosemary, but very similar. If yours is rosey, it might not work very well in the blend, although it's not a big part of the blend.

Here is what I did in parts

8 parts fir
4 parts cedar
2 parts peppermint
1 parst rosemary
1 parts palmrosa