Making Sweetly Clean Soap - a soapy clean scent with a feminine touch - this scent is a blend of litsea cubeba, orange, lime, pink grapefruit, lily, rose, geranium, ...
Wow....would love to have my soap stay liquid as long as yours does...mine
sets up in 5 mins, even when mixing by hand. May I ask what is your ratio
of hard vs liquid oils? Mine is 56% hard 44% liquid...could that be it?
Thanks for the answer! I do soap cool and use full water, but I also use a lot of castor oil which I've read increases speed quite a bit, so I guess that coupled with high ratio of hard oils makes up for a hot mess :) I can play around with swirls...it's just that I was wowed by how much time you have to mix colors in. And for sure wowed by the beautiful soap! xoxo Irene
There are so many factors aside from recipe...your water amount, soaping temperature, what oils are making up the liquid part even, whether you are using milk, etc.. All that aside, I definitely do not use hard oils at that high of a ratio. You might try increasing your olive oil and decreasing some hard oils, soap cool, use full water, etc..
Love watching you make soap! Being on YT myself, once you put yourself out
there, you're gonna get copied. I find it a form of flattery. Lots of
things give us inspiration, including watching others make soap. Like the
drop swirl, is pretty generic but always comes out different. It's pretty
awesome you had a swirl named after you, that's great! Getting copied
keeps us on our toes to re-invent ;) Actually had someone local copy my
whole everything, names, pkging, etc. Pushed me to change things up, and
it doubled my sales, go figure! You rock Holly and thanks for sharing your
beautiful talent!
+Missouri River Soap Absolutely! It is lame and boy, did it make my blood boil when I had x,y,z coming and telling me "hey, so-so is trying to look just like you" (soapy business speaking). It's a shame. 100% agree with you!
Oh, I understand I am going to get copied. What really burns is when other soapmakers that own businesses (also claiming to be my 'friends') make identical soaps and promote them as their own. I understand being inspired, but most soapmakers want their ideas to be original and would be embarrassed to put out a copy. Copying what I do exactly (color, scent, design) is cheap and disrespectful. I have heard the ones are copying me say they want to sell like me etc., so I know they are just piggy backing on the popularity of my soaps. Of course, they are never true copies as no one soaps exactly like I do (so goes other makers as well). It just never hurts to mention that copying is lame. :-) I appreciate you taking the time to write!
I really thought I'd replied to this already but I don't see it now...hmm. Yes, I used a hot pink mica. To get a nice red, BB recommends mixing their merlot mica with their electric bubblegum pigment. It does do a decent job. You can also try tomato red from TKB.
Hello Sherri, i love your lotion so much it's so creamy and nourishing to
the skin. When you make a lotion with any type of milk is it necessary to
heat the milk with the water? What if its powdered milk and what phase
would you recommend adding honey to your lotion?
THis looks devine!!!:) How long does your goat milk lotion last before
going bad considering it containts milk? I have heard it last only 6 weeks.
Is this true?
8.3 oz. Coconut Oil 44 oz. Olive Oil 2.8 oz. Cocoa Butter 7.4 oz. Lye 10.5 oz. Distilled Water 8.3 oz. Kombucha SCOBY & tea pureed 3.5 oz. Essential Oil scent of ...