Soap

Soo....I made my first batch of soap - not first batch ever but first in a really long time so it was like starting from scratch.

The recipe I used was  700g olive oil, 250g coconut oil [copha], 50g castor oil, 139g caustic soda, 375g water.

At trace I added an extra tablespoon of castor oil for extra moisturising qualities and a small bottle of lavender oil.

I used a crockpot to hot process the soap so it'd be ready in a few days time and not weeks and I'm happy with the result but the smell of the lavender actually makes it a dead ringer for sunlight soap.  Not happy 'bout that.

Yeah, yeah, yeah I know that sunlight soap is lemon and not lavender but this soap is a dead ringer for it.  Even hubby and father-in-law both said the same thing without me mentioning it.  I thought I was being paranoid but apparently not.

I'm thinking I may rebatch it to re-scent it. 

Anyhoos the soap has FANTASTIC lather and bubbles.  I'm really chuffed with that part of it and I've located a soap supplies store in southern queensland somewhere that have colours and different smells.

See these..........

these were our cupcake bath bombs or bath fizzies.  The ratio is 3:1 of bicarb soda and citric acid with no oil in them aside from the scented oil so that they - a) don't leave a ring of oil around the tub and b) don't make the tub slippery.

We scented some with strawberry and some with lavender and the icing was just a generic frosting made with egg whites and icing sugar with scented oil in them also but I'm gunna experiment with soap frosting this year.

We gave these as part of our Christmas gift packs and I dunno if other people loved them as much as we are loving them in our baths.  I do understand that not everyone baths......alot of people shower [my preference] so I'm also gunna try to make cupcake soaps.