Thrifty MummyHen

Making Cold Process Soap

I have, for the first time, been making soap.  Cold process soap – the resources available on line are immense, recipes, sourcing ingredients, videos.  I spent a good deal of time researching.  I only plan to give the soap as gifts or for us to use at home.  I am pleased with my first efforts – I made some mistakes – like forgetting to add the fragrance.

I used three different moulds – a pringles can, a wooden loaf mould – made by SonnyHen & DaddyHen from bits of wood we had laying around and a wooden rectangle mould again homemade.  The pringles can and the loaf moulds were the best, although the rectangle mould may have worked better if I had not added so much batter. 

Brown circle is Seaweed – the colour started as a brightish olive green but after it was cut and started to dry out the colour changed to this dull brown

 

Purple and Cream – is Lavender and Calendula

 

Blue and Yellow – umm was supposed to be Lime & Coconut but I forgot to add the fragrance

 

Green and White – Lime and Tea Tree (hope the white will be more white during the cure)

 

Pink and White – Rose Geranium and Tea Tree

 

Now I need to be patient for the next six weeks whilst the soap cures

 

Anyone else make CP soap - if so do share your tips. 

Two sleeps until holiday - yippee

 

MummyHen X