Making your own skincare products can be fun a lot of fun most of the time, but it's not always smooth running. This year has been totally different from the last few as you have probably seen from our website.
This year we have been so busy making our creams, lotions and body butters that we have almost forgotten about our soaps! Not to worry though, panic stations has set in and we have now started making them...
Making our soap is quite an easy process, weigh the oils, heat them up and then mix them with the lye (sodium hydroxide), once they get to a thick custard texture, they are then ready for the mould.
This is fine, but I forgot the last batch we made, we had to take the mould to bits as the soap wouldn't come out but we got there in the end, now this time the first soap to be made was Lavender and whoever put the mould back together again didn't put the screws right in, (I think you know what happened next), so here is me delighted to be making soap again, not knowing any better, pours the soap into the mould and low and behold it starts running out of the side...OMG...panic stations again! Luckily there was another mould ready nearby that was done for another batch and some quick thinking, grabbed the leaking mould and poured it into the other mould.
We had quite a bit of a mess to clean up, there was soap everywhere, but after a while we did see the funny side of it. Here are some photos of the soaps we made, which were chosen for the upcoming Christmas season...we've experimented with heart and round moulds too ready for some unique Christmas gifts (stocking fillers...)
Oh I know we are going to have a lot of fun decorating the hearts and the round ones, you will have to wait and see what we come up with.
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