I’m having a soap making weekend! This weekend I am going to be putting to use all three of my wooden molds and one of my plastic molds. This weekend I plan on making cold process Pink Sugar scented soap. This fragrance is a bit of a pain. It has a high vanilla content and turns dark brown when used in cold process soap. I separate the batch into two portions one third I don’t put any fragrance oil into and I add red coloring to make pink, the other portion I add a little titanium dioxide to bring the dark brown to a slightly lighter brown. The fragrance doing discolor right away, I’m always a little disappointed when my beautiful pink and cream colored swirly soap starts to turn dark brown and pink. The Pink Sugar fragrance oil I use is extremely strong and this is one of my all time best sellers, even though its brown! I also add a shimmery silver swirl to the top of my batches of Pink Sugar. I plan on making 17 bars, which means Ill be using my biggest mold. I debated with myself if I should do this in a slab mold like I did last time, that would yield me 12 perfect bars and then I would use a second plastic mold to get a few more. But I don’t think I’m going to fuss with the slab mold and second mold this weekend. I have other plans for the slab mold!

Posted by Shelley in Uncategorized on May 25th, 2007 | No Comments