I finally got around to making this and I used every single trick I could think of. First I melted my oils and made sure everything was cool. I even refrigerated a few oils so it would cool the room temp oil further. Then I mixed in my fragrance into my base oil. With it evenly dispursed before adding the lye water this seems to make things move slower. I also made sure my lye water was completly cool (I refrigerated it!) and I also did not use a water discount. I havent soaped at 100% full water since my very first batches of soap. I also kept my stick blender in the cupboard and stirred by hand. I also added my color into the oil rather than at trace. I stirred and stirred it seemed, trace didnt happen too fast at all! If I do this again I will do the same techinique only I will do a swirl, now that I know I can handle this oil with a few tricks! The color turned out spot of perfect, a nice bright cheery pink. I added a sparkley swirl on top of deep pink. It is still a bit soft but hardening up very nicely. The full water is why it is still soft, after about 3 weeks it could still be a little soft but eventually it will be rock hard like my other soaps. Im very happy with how this turned out!

Posted by Shelley in Uncategorized on July 15th, 2007 | No Comments