My second go at CP soaping...

ok so our first batch wasnt so great...we havent done any melt and pour just threw ourselves in the deep end....

This has patchouli, black pepper, may chang and orange EO and the black spots are coffee beans ground..

wasnt so keen on the smell until i took a teeny bit to test in the shower...

new to the site my next step is to learn how to get CP both translucent (unless it isnt possible) and Im wanting to get a creamy white looking soap.. i tried to mix in some milk with the left over but um that was a nice sloppy mess lol...lined the bottom of my bin nicely...

thanks for the site loving it already...i love seeing visually others soaps so here is our share (when i say our my 7 year and i are doing all the soaps and melts together shes loving it..)

xx
Fee
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Only your second batch? You're a natural. That is lovely.

lol i should have taken images of my first batch it was a sad sight let me share that lol....

my next one im going to try is chocolate and vanilla with a swirl...lets see how bad my swirl turns out lol...

any hints on getting white soap white i am looking and looking and am having trouble finding anything about getting it white....

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Wow... I started reading the list of things you'd put in that soap, and thought for a second batch you were pushing yourself too hard... but you've pulled it off! well done, it looks gorgeous. And your photography is lovely too... you must have an awesome camera.

Appartantly lard makes a nice white soap. I'm not a lard girl myself.

Yes, it does. I gotta tell ya, if you tried a lard soap for yourself, you would love it. It brings a mildness and creaminess that is unrivaled. Especially goat milk and lard.

aww thanks for the replies girls...I picked up lard at the store and promptly put it down grossing myself out from a comment id read somewhere that you wouldnt grab a steak rip off the lard and rub it up and down your arm and couldnt get it out of my head lol so i walked away from the lard...hehe

and re the photography i am a photographer I have a studio in Brisbane and do some outdoors also doing newborns mummies to be families and of course kidlets in brisbane so yer i do kinda have a good camera hehe..happy to take any images for peoples site in exchange for ****cough****goodies i can email over your images once edited up

i do this for a few clothing companies actually and a mens range of creams etc for a store..works well i get goodies and exposure you get fabulous (of course their fabulous i took them) images lol

Fee

this was my own thrown together recipe for this one...fluked it or what
ok here goes (all put through a soap calc
Olive oil 600
macadamia oil130
almond oil200
coconut oil 200 (ahh cant read y own writing)]
rice bran 40
and castor oil 40
363 water
154.9 lye
30.25 fragrance although i kind just through these in hoping theyd smell nice together..