digging in my soap box for inspiration

After two failed soaps this week I decided to go back to simple.  That's how I started.  Just simple soaps with fluffy tops.  That meant I needed to go digging in my soap box for the first real mold I ever purchased.  It's a simple wood mold to make a one pound batch of soap.  I use 15 oz of oils to be precise!  I missed my little mold!  I missed using wood and I missed my little liners I had in it so that I never had to the line the mold either.  In my soap box I also found a bunch of old recipes.  I'm assuming I wanted to keep them, which is why they were in my time machine soap box.  I decided to make a simple four oil soap with pomace olive oil, organic palm oil, coconut oil, and cocoa butter.  It always performs well for me and I can't believe I forgot about it.  Well, I can believe I forgot about it since I'm always experimenting.

I really wanted to make a pink soap so I chose to scent it with Ruby Red Grapefruit fragrance oil from Nature's Garden and a dash of Energy from Brambleberry.  What a great grapefruit fragrance.  I hope it smells just as good after cure.

The soap making process went beautifully and it was so nice to have something not seize on me and I wasn't in a rush either.  The soap was like pudding.  I'll have to use this recipe again.

Here's what it looked like in the mold.  I love the pink and the glitter.

Here it is the next day after I cut it.  It unmolded like a dream.  I used 1% sodium lactate and that was perfect.

It was difficult to capture the pink with my camera.  I had to use a "loud" piece of scrapbook paper, but it seemed to do the trick.  It smells so yummy and all grapefruity.  I lathered up a small piece and it's silky, creamy, and luxurious.  Time to wait!  I see more of these simple soaps in my future.   Happy soaping!