Hey, I know this will shock my readers, but I made soap on Sunday....

First up: 10% honey experimental batch.

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Our lavender soap for the guests is ready! Thanks to LiveEssentials for making it possible :)

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I have available slots for 5 more soap testers. If you like using homemade bar soap and are willing to give frank feedback on soap qualities (and quality), send me a private message with your email address and I'll send you the link to the testers preference survey. You can test one bar or several, it's up to you.

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First order of August is going to Colorado! 💜
Everything here is handmade by myself 😺 This picture includes two cold process soaps, two soy candles in a Large and Status jar size, a sugar scrub and body/fabric spray!

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A couple cuts from my soap the other day

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Finally, this is a bar of my first borax and pumice blend...

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I made four batches of soap yesterday. Here's another in my series of high-honey content soaps, poured into an appropriate mold!

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Finally remade my Starry Night inspired soap, called Shooting Stars.
Scent is a lavender and cedar leaf blend, with notes of amber, vanilla, sandalwood, lily of the valley and rosewood. Topped with biodegradable star shaped glitter and a crescent moon shaped soap

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Evidence! I made three batches of soap on the fourth of July, here's the first photo of the first batch. This is a '72%' soap, roughly based on the Savon de la Bonne Mere (soap of the good mother?) classic soap from France.

Olive oil, palm oil, coconut oil a little madder root for color, and made with a salt water solution. More photos to come, once the other bars have hardened a bit.

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The soap is out of the mold and cut! Here's a shot of me prying the two loaves apart, and a photo of the lard soap (crinkle-cut) and the tallow soap (smooth-cut). The tallow looks amazing already.

These twin batches have 4 ingredients each; the fat (lard or tallow), water, lye, and a little sodium lactate (a liquid salt added to aid in bar hardness).
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Welp, that was an afternoon's work to be sure. 5.62 kilos (12.4 lbs.) of soap batter. It should get me about 40 bars once it is cut and cured. It will weigh about 4.3 kg once dry. That means that I made about 9 kg of soap batter since Saturday morning.

I'm worn out. It's a good thing I'm back at work in the morning!

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I am in my mid-sixties.

I hold down a job, manage a budget, know how to clean my house, I am generally clean & neat when I leave home... IOW, I mimic an adult very well for the most part.

But I have the patience of a hummingbird. I _know_ I should leave the soap in the mold for 24 hours. Do I? <laughs maniacally>.

Here are the slightly-dented first bars from my 1st Dove-clone. This is about half the batch.

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huh. I had NO right to expect this batch (I should call it 'Off to the Traces Peach') to have come out this nicely. I guess I jammed it into the mold with enough force to squeeze most of the air pockets out. Next question: will it dry crumbly? As with so many things soapy, time will tell.

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....aaaaaaaaaaaaaand no one who knows me will be surprised to learn that I went ahead and unmolded the soft soap. Here's the pumice and clay bars...

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BTW, I'm looking for ~8 more soap testers. If you live in the USA & you're willing to fill out detailed surveys reviewing 3-8 bars of soap a year, you'll get thank-you packages of whichever soap you like the best. Please contact me through DM if you are interested.

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This other batch tho; whoo!

1st time I've tried a wooden mold, & it stuck hard. I put it into the freezer to firm & shrink it & finally got it out. I used my soap miter box to take advantage of the soap being very firm and sliced it into approx. 7/8" slices.

This is a Bastille variant with olive, coconut, & castor oils with 2 types of salt. I'll start using this & sending it to testers in mid August.

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I made two batches of cold process soap on Saturday, an experimental/learning batch with clay and pumice in it; it's still soaking wet, so I'll let it dry another day. It's in individual bar molds, so there's no rush to cut loaves while it's still soft.

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New interests; new reading.

This week's light reading includes "Soap and Cosmetic Labeling: How to Follow the Rules and Regs Explained in Plain English" and "Good Manufacturing Practices for Soap and Cosmetic Handcrafters," both by Marie Gale.

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First nine days of soap. Five batches, ~70 bars, an unknown, but less than zero, amount of cat hair.

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Everyone else: let’s color some eggs!

Me: Nah, fam. Let’s make some soap!

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