Burgundy Shea Butter!!

*waves*Hey y'all! Hope everyone is doing good! As long as I stay soaping, I sure am too!
I am very tired tonight and it's late, but wanted to take a few minutes and post about the latest soap I made before tomorrow so I don't fall behind on this again. :)
So I have this thing for shea butter and cocoa butter because of how wonderful for your skin they are, and well the other day I tried something new with cocoa butter (Sisterly Love Soap). So I figured I would try the same with the Shea Butter. I tweaked the recipe , and plugged in the amount of Shea butter for the recipe into the lye calculator. Instead of melting all of the Shea Butter with the other oils, I reserved a little bit and added it right at trace like I did the cocoa butter for the Sisterly Love batch and I was very pleased with the results.
I seperated the batch and made the base part a Burgundy color and it came out a bit lighter than I expected. Incidentally when I added the fragrance oil, which smells just like living in the forest by the way ;), it turned turned the base yellow, so that may have been why the colorant was a light as it was. As time went on though, it went from yellow to white, which was fascinating to me. lol  Ok so lets get to the pictures shall we?

As you can see, there is no yellow tint from the fragrance oil, and here I have swirled both colors on the top.

This was taken the next morning. I was really happy with how the outside looked.

I made the first cut. I liked it, however I think I am going to pour the second color from now on before trace and divide it maybe with a little extra of the second color.Some of it gets stuck where it does because the bottom quickly hardens. I wanted the top to be swirled with both colors, which it did but the burgundy was a bit lighter than I wanted it to be on top. The burgundy on the inside is duskier than I wanted as well. It is still pretty though.

No two slices appear to be the same, altho some of the difference can be slight.

It's all cut up and ready to cure!

This weekend I am going to try a couple of new things I think with the colors. I also went today and met some wonderful goats and was able to purchase fresh goats milk. I have the milk already freezing in the freezer and can't wait to use it!
Well everyone, it is time for me to turn into a pumpkin! I hope you all have a good rest of the evening!
Suds & Bubbles,
Soapy