8/26/15

Yogurt Soap Rebatch

A couple of weeks ago, I made a batch of Yogurt Honey Soap. It was the first time I had tried out the recipe, so I made a small trial batch, which was a good thing, because the soap stayed too soft for my liking, even after 2 weeks of curing. Since the soap itself smelled wonderful, and the ingredients were top quality, I decided to try and amend the soap with ingredients that may help make a harder soap.
In order to do so, I had to rebatch the soap, which is basically just shredding it, adding the least amount of liquid possible, and melting it slowly in either a crockpot, or a double boiler.
In my case, since the soap was still quite soft on the inside, I simply cut it into very small pieces and melted it with a tiny amount of coconut oil in a double boiler.
To try and harden the bar, and to absorb some of the generous amount of honey I had put in the original recipe, I added some organic ground up oats and natural beeswax.
The soap, which smelled great before, now smells good enough to eat, and seems to be firmer than the original soap. Well, here's to hoping it will be a great bar of soap when cured!!


8/7/15

Yogurt honey soap

Today I tried out a new recipe. I made a small batch of yogurt soap. It seems to be extremely popular at the moment. I have read lot of reviews about how great yogurt soap is for the skin, and how nice it feels, so I decided to make some to see if it lives up to the hype. I guess I will find out in about 3 or 4 weeks.
I used whole milk Greek yogurt, raw honey and Young Living bergamot essential oil as additives to my basic recipe. I also used calendula infused, first cold press virgin sunflower oil, first cold press extra virgin olive oil, pure, raw, unrefined, first cold press organic coconut oil, and organic cold pressed castor oil. All quite expensive ingredients, hence the small batch.
I put it in the freezer to prevent the gel phase.

8/5/15

Web Comic

Check out this web comic. It is done by my daughter Cassandra. Please share the site, as she is trying to get some traffic and possibly some work from this.