Soapy makes Salt Bar Soap

*waves* Good afternoon y'all! In my last post , I mentioned posting about my latest salt bar adventure. 
I have seen other Soapers making these bars, and while I have never tried one, a lot of people swear by them. Salt bars are exfoliating of course, as well as full of lather from the large percentage of coconut oil that is used in the recipe. The reason why so much coconut oil is used is because otherwise the salt will affect the lather. The interesting thing is, when using such a high amount of coconut oil, normally it can be drying to the skin. That doesn't appear to be the case with the salt bars at all, as long as you have some additional moisturizing oils added in the recipe. Ok y'all onto picture time!! This time the hubsters was there snapping pictures! ;)

Ok so I decided to use Pink Himalayan Salt for this recipe, and have added it to my soap batter.

Whip it good!! I whisked this for quite a bit until the batter became as thick as what pudding would almost be. I just want to mention that I only added salt to the white soap batter because I didn't see the need to add it to the blue and green color.

Salted soap on the bottom. :)

As you can see I layer the other colors on top of the white soap batter and smoothed them out.

I decided that I wanted to try some sort of a textured top for it, so I poured the remainder of the colored soap into the salted soap batter and did a slight swirl.

Putting on the top.

Ok so I wasn't sure if the top that I poured would work for this when it came time to cut it, so I got the skewer out and played with the top for a bit.

Now what is really fascinating about making salt soap is the fact that it is unmolded and cut while it is still hot because the salt content makes it harden quickly. If you wait until it cools, it will be like cutting a brick and crumble.

A few hours later I return, and see that it has superheated a bit, which as I have mentioned in the past doesn't affect the quality of the soap.

I didn't like how grey the blue came out but it still looks interesting in this soap.

The loaf was too hard to cut with my new soap cutter, so I only used the soap cutter to mark where to cut, and then cut with a knife. I cut an end piece for samples. By the way, I added Shea Butter and Jojoba oil to this soap. Yummilicious for your skin!  I cannot wait to try it!

By the way, my goofy hubsters took a couple of shots of what I listened to while soaping that day.

My playlist for that day for those interested was:
Enya- Aniron (yes I am a LOTR fan)
Loreena Mckennit- The old ways,  Samhain night and Bonnie Portmore
Gypsy Soul- True Love (Scarborough Fair)
My playlist varies from day to day, just depending on my mood, but I mostly prefer Celtic, some New Age, and 80's and 90's oldies when soaping. On occasion I delve back into the 20's through 70's. I grew up in a family that had a variety of musical tastes, and I love a lot of the music that my parents and grandparents grew up with.
Ok folks, I have to stop rambling on and get to the loaf of soap that's out in the shop waiting to be cut, so check back in soon for a new soaping adventure!
Suds & Bubbles,
Soapy