My watermelon soap turned out really cool- all three layers turned out pretty darn even and the colors were awesome, until the fragrance oil started to discolor. Ah bummer! The red started to get very brown, even now its still pretty cool looking, but I decided to do a rebatch of half of the log. The soap was still very very soft, it was rich in olive and rice bran oils which are awesome gentle oils. So I decided to take the dark red/brown part and add it to half a batch of oils. This was totally unchartered territory for me! I stick blended the oils and soap together. Could this really work? I mean its a bit of a long shot! The oils became very very thick and I definatly would not be able to see trace (a natural thickening of the oil and lye solution, trace is when the soap is ready to be poured into the mold) I blended and blended and blended until I didnt think it could get any smoother then I added my room temperature lye water and started stirring and stick blending. I blended for a few minutes, and started stirring, I added in some titanium dioxide and just kept on stirring. I couldnt see any change in the thickness, it was still THICK! I was getting slightly concerned so I just kept on stirring and finally decided I had stirred longer than usual and could only hope for the best at this point. I glopped it into the mold and pounded out the air bubbles. Oh it smelled glorious!! It turned out awesome! And has been named Melon  Smoothie. I cant wait to get some shots of it labelled up!!

Posted by Shelley in Uncategorized on March 28th, 2007 |