Soaping with Miss Daisy!!

*waves* Hey y'all! I hope everyone is doing great! 
So this weekend I headed to the mountains to see some of my favorite people, and get some soaping time in with a dear friend of mine, "Miss Daisy". Now Miss Daisy and I met eachother a few years ago at the start of our annual family camping trip. We met through Cyndy, of Cristal Dragon Candle Co. (I have all sorts of crafty friends and family members y'all!) Well... to make a long story short, awhile back Miss Daisy got the handmade crafting bug so to speak, and started making these wonderful sugar scrubs to sell! Goodness sakes you want to talk about yummy-ness on your skin! Woo-weee! Auh-mazing!  Anyhow, we decided we were going to do a batch of hot process soap together over the weekend. So, here are some pictures of that adventure.

So Miss Daisy used the stick blender for the first time, and stick blended her very first batch of soap to trace. Well I say a batch of soap but it was a double batch to be exact. We had just enough room in that crock pot for the soap.

So this is the batch after cooking for awhile. We would check on it and stir it periodically until it reached complete stage.

Now you might be asking whats with all the oils on top...well...after it hit gel stage, we superfatted it with some additional goodies, and Miss Daisy began to stir.  

Miss Daisy stirred the superfats into the gelled soap until they were completely incorporated and we then cooked it for about 30 more minutes after that.

 Now, fast forward because since this was a double batch, we were busy and just didn't think about getting any pictures of the colors we chose. So we got it in both the molds, sprinkled some glitter on top and wrapped the tops of the soap. The next day we unmolded and one of the guys cut the soap for us. (Y'all know I can't cut soap straight to save my life! lol) 

This was after the first soap loaf was cut. See the pretty glitter??? :)

So "The Misters" took the soap outside to see if the glitter catch the sun rays and sparkle a little more. It didn't, but it still looks pretty outside too doesn't it? Goodness sakes it has a light lovely fragrance to it also! :)

We did do a test from a couple of soap scraps we had leftover, and I plumb forgot to take a picture of the lathery and moisturizing loveliness of this soap. I will next time we use the hot process method, promise!! Well, that's it for this adventure! Stay tuned for the next blog post coming up soon about my adventure with Carrot soap!
Suds & Bubbles,
Soapy