The last of my Lavender Escapades

*waves* Hey y'all! Hope everyone is staying cool while in all this heat! :) Sooo, I made a batch of soap yesterday and decided to do, yes, another Lavender Escapade sort of thing. I brewed a tea (lavender and rosemary), grabbed some goatsmilk and went from there.

Ok so I did the normal heating oils and letting the lye mixture cool, which actually took a bit of time to do because of the heat. It was actually interesting because the tea seemed to seperate from the goats milk but the lye was mixed well. I had made the tea and goats milk mixture a couple of weeks ago and had to freeze it because a storm was coming which made it easier to work with when I added the lye.

Anyhow, I get pour the lye into the oils, got them mixed, separated, and did the color slightly different this time. Instead of totally mixing the color in, I did a swirl in the bowls and began to pour it in layers.

Here's the Green which is supposed to symbolize the Rosemary.

The purple, which of course symbolizes the lavender.

I continued to layer, as you can tell it was at a thick trace at this point.

And the purple...

So I swirled just a wee bit more to give it a slight texture up top.

I went in this morning to check on it and I was pleased with the look of it.

The purple kinda has a blue tint slightly but I like it. :)

So I cut it in half! I absolutely love it!

All cut up! Isn't it lovely? I love the colors of this. I am not sure I care too much for the smell though. I did a Lavender Rosemary scent combination, so we'll have to see what it smells like in the next week or so.

Well there you have it. The last of the Lavender Escapades set. :) I have to run and get a couple of things done, but will try to blog again today. :) Stay cool!!
Suds & Bubbles,
Soapy

Where in the world has Soapy been?!?!?!

*waves* Hey folks! Wow what a weekend I have had!! I was supposed to update this blog over the weekend, and unfortunately my net started acting up and I couldn't get online. :( Since it was a holiday weekend with the 4th and all, the closest available time slot they had to send the repair guy was this morning at 11:30. *passes out* Y'all, I promise you I about went nuts!!! My phone doesn't get good reception out here because I live way out in Timbuktu, but thankfully we are able to increase our signal with the wifi. Unfortunately with the net issues, the modem was down and no wifi. :( So I could only send texts and sign into to msn messenger on a very small signal, which kept fading in and out. By Monday I realized that I had no life outside of here in the sticks. lol! Shameful isn't it? Anyhow, I know you want to see some SOAP! So let's get to it.


Ok so , I had all these plans to take a bunch of pictures because I decided to make a Gradation batch using a Labcolor which gives a sort of tye-dye look to it. I studied how it was done on one of my favorites blogs and thought I would try it. Since I had partial success (sorta) on the rainbow soap in the past, I figured I would do even better with this batch. Imagine my surprise when I added the scent and the below happend...

It appears to be dumplings in a tomato sort of looking sauce doesn't it? *gags a bit* Well, see what had happened was it seized on me right after I put the scent in it. So I had to beat out the lumps that were much bigger and glop it into the mold. I was not happy because the scent was said to be cold process safe.

 This was how it looked after I got it glopped in the mold...

:(

I swirled it around and it didn't take but a few moments to completely harden. (yes I used flash in this picture lol)

So I was worried that it was going to have lye pockets and every other nasty thing you could think of that could happen with soap. I went to bed not a happy camper at all. The next morning I went out to unmold it and held my breath and cut it in half.

*sighs with relief* No lye pockets or anything thank goodness. I didn't have the color effect that I wanted but it looked unique so I was ok with it.

I went through and cut the rest of it up and it seemed to be fine. It should be ready soon so will let you know how it turned out after cure time. I also took a little bit of time to melt down and mix two glycerin soaps that I made awhile back. One was green, the other orange, and when mixing it together it became a pretty green color. So I used the new mold that I had purchased. (the flowery one)

See in the middle in between the Goatsmilk Lavender Tea with Rosemary and the orange batch of dumpling looking top soap.

Well folks there you have it. Another escapade in the journey of Soapy the Soapmeisterette. lol  Putting in an order for some more oils and such so more stuffs coming soon!!
Suds & Bubbles,
Soapy

Stopping in to say hey!

*waves* Hey y'all! Sorry I have been a little lax on updating this blog. I know, naughty me. :s Have had alot going on here lately, and with the youngins out for summertime you can just imagine how it's been here.
I plan to update the blog over the weekend with some new soap batches so keep checking in! Hope everyone is staying cool in all this heat! Personally I am really looking forward to fall getting here. lol
Talk to y'all soon!

Suds & Bubbles,
Soapy