My Soap Diary

06/09/11

Happy Tuesday to all those parents who have Kids that go back to School today, we have our lives back Yippppeee. Now on with the soap making.

Well that went great, I have just finished making the Rose & Ylang Ylang Soap with added Goats Milk, and out of the whole lot that was the smoothest, I must be getting the hang of it now, hey! I better not speak to soon I have 2 other Soap's to make today, The Citrus Cleanser and Rosewood & Honey Shaving Soap, so there's still time for it all to go pear shaped…(Ye o'little faith!)  It had to be raining today, because how mean do I feel, booting the dog outside while doing the lye, its typical the rain had stopped for 5 sec's and the moment I think great and put him out it absolutely buckets it down so he now looks like a drowned rat and the filthy looks I'm getting, no amount of soap will clean them up, thank god for Ginger Nut biscuits lol…. I will win him back round….

See I told you I spoke too soon, I found out today Castor Oil can seize the soap mixture, well I presume it was the Castor Oil mainly because both the Citrus Cleanser & Shaving Soap have Castor Oil in and both of them starting setting in the pan, to which I quickly shovelled it into the moulds, yes I said shovelled, not a technical term I know, but that’s what it probably looked like. But saying all that, they both looked and smelt really good, and like all good disaster's in the kitchen, they normally turn out for the best and are usually very hard to replicate so fingers crossed.