My Soap Diary

08/09/11

Its amazing how tiring making stock is, I fell asleep at 9 last night and today I feel like I've been partying the night away, so I decided to have the day off, apart from taking the other soaps out of their moulds.

I removed the Sunflower & Calendula Logs out of their mould, they were covered in a light film of oil, this isn't a major problem as soap tends to re-absorb any oil that’s sat on the surface, but it will better for me if I leave this soap to cure for the full 6 weeks, I will cut this soap after a week of drying out. The Citrus Cleanser, I don’t know if McVities still do them but does anyone remember Jaspers, well that’s what my Citrus Cleanser Soap smells like, yummy. The Rose & Ylang Ylang soap looks absolutely fine, the Rose petals which I scattered on top have turned black but that’s down to the oils again they will dry out. I will look at cutting this soap probably on Monday. The Rosewood Shaving Soap's are I think going to take the full 6 weeks as well, the Castor oil seems to make the initial soaps soft and moist so we'll see how they dry out over the next 6 weeks, but on the upside of things they smell like warm Gingerbread.

Crikey that was hard work its taken just over an hour, 2 freezer trips and a heck of a lot of banging to get the Lavender & Thyme Soap out of the mould, The second batch of Sunflower & Calendula just slipped out no problem at all.

Lol I have just read the last couple of lines and it makes soap making sound quite saucy lol..