Yummy Soap!

*waves* Hey y'all! So glad y'all could drop by to read my latest soap adventure. :) Yes I made the Oatmeal, Goats Milk and Honey soap night before last!! Can I get a wooowhoooo??? lol
I was both excited and worried about making this soap because of the amount of natural sugar in both the honey and goats milk, but I was pleasantly surprised with the end results.


I got together all of my oils, and incidently I only used 3 oils this time and figured since I would be using honey and goats milk that I could increase the coconut oil and it wouldn't be too hard and would have loads of lather. Of course I won't be 100% sure that it worked for a few weeks but hope springs eternal. ;) Ok picture time!!

Am bypassing the whole melting the oils, and mixing lye stuffs because y'all have seen all that before. So I add the honey right at trace. I didn't want to add the oatmeal before the honey and run the risk of it superheating and cooking the oatmeal. Just to let you know, I soaped at 110 degrees on both the oils and the lye milk. After I added and stirred in the honey, the temp was 117 which wasn't that bad at all. 

After adding the oatmeal. Doesn't it look like oatmeal cake batter? lol

After pouring, I had so much that I had to break out the other mold. Y'all know how I like to do the swirls and fancy looking tops? Well I knew I wouldn't be able to do that, so instead I did this......

I know, I couldn't resist sprinkling it on there. lol

Ok so I was on pins and needles all night hoping that it wouldn't volcano while I was asleep and be surprised in the morning to have a mess all over my work table. I am happy to say that didn't happen! But what did happen was interesting.

I expected everything to be a deep honey colored especially with the olive oil, the milk, and the honey combined. Imagine my shock when I saw it was an off white, very light tan color. So we cut the loaf up, and found something interesting.

The inside is honey colored! Isn't that interesting? Color me fascinated folks! Oh I love the little patterns that the oatmeal made on the inside. It looks wonderful and is a creamy bar. Smells delicious too! I have to tell you, I don't like to eat oatmeal. I can't stand the texture of it when I have tried it. I am odd I know. lol I will tell you though, smelling this soap made me want to overlook the fact that I don't like to eat oatmeal and make a bowl for breakfast.I didn't but I did strongly consider it. lol

The top of the bar.

On the curing rack. They will be ready to use the day my youngin's get out of school. lol

So I am watching this batch closely due to the oatmeal and honey in it. I think it will be fine but I am a bit of a worrywart. lol
Well, I hope everyone is doing good, and having some adventures of their own. Check back soon for more on my adventures in soapmaking. ;)
Suds & Bubbles,
Soapy

Yayyy for Oils!!

*waves* Hey y'all!! So my oils came in thankfully, and goodness gracious am I ever ready to whip up another batch of soap! I am down to 10 ounces of Lye so enough to do a batch of Goatsmilk, Honey and Oatmeal soap! Doesn't it sound yummy?!?! lol I have a bit of a worry though. Pure honey has natural sugar in it, and of course we all know so does Goats milk and both can superheat with lye. So I am worried that it may be a double whammy, although I am using frozen goats milk to mix the lye in so maybe that will keep the double whammy from happening.
    
       So I have been hitting research mode again on how much honey per pound of oils to use, and when is the best time to add it. Alot are saying to add it right before trace, but I am concerned that it will react like my very first batch of goats milk soap that superheated. So I am a bit nervous but I really want to do this soap, so we'll see what happens. I will be sure to get pictures should it turn into a volcano. lol
  
In another update, I started a garden, hence the other blog that I created awhile back (that I need to post the first entry for lol) , but we did the garden little bit wrong. lol But at any rate the rosemary that I planted is growing like a champ. So decided that I am going to make a batch of Rosemary Essential Oil to use in my soap stuffs. The process is lengthy from my understanding, but it will safe me money in the long run and Rosemary is good for so many things. Seems to almost be a cure all. Will get a picture of the plant and post it soon. Perhaps I will have an herb blog in the future. lol
Well folks, I have to run and get ready soon to take one of my youngins to the doctor. Will try to post again later!
Suds & Bubbles,
Soapy

Rebatch Escapades!

*waves* Hey y'all!! Hope everyone is doing good and had a wonderful Mother's Day weekend!
There's not much to report since the coffee batch that I made, am waiting on some more oils so that I can jump back in. I did however do a rebatch on the blueberry soap that I made awhile back and I have to tell you, it turned out so ugly I am too embarrassed to show pictures of it here. I declare it looked like some liverwurst with white chunks in it. lmao!! Altho one of the chunks looked blue, it was just odd.

I started melting it out in the shop in a homemade type double broiler, and well that took too long and the burner just wasn't getting the job done. So I brought it inside and threw it in one of my crockpots. I tell you what, it felt like days for it to melt down a bit. Needless to say my neighborhood smelled like blueberry muffins and one of my youngins came in and asked for some cause it smelled so good. lol! He changed his mind of course upon finding out what it was.

So anyhow..I get it melted down a bit and glopped it into my mold. To be honest with you I think I didn't melt it enough but I just couldn't get it to go any further than where it went. You can only cook something but for too long before you have to give up the ghost. I didn't want blackened soap, although the end it wasn't much better than it would have been anyway. lol! It smells good, works wonderfully but no way in heck am I ever gonna sample it out! It is truly ugly soap to the 9th power! What made it so bad was I added some blue colorant in the hopes that it would help the color but it didn't do anything but make it a deeper color of brown. Was horrid. lol I imagine this is why they say "Never rebatch unless you have no other choice but to." Another day, another lesson learned. ;)
Well y'all, I have some stuff to get done, and will write again soon.
Suds & Bubbles,
Soapy