Roberta's Lady Lace

I've met a wonderful new soaper on YouTube.  She has been soaping about the same amount of time as I have and we are sharing recipes and ideas and having a wonderful time.  She makes beautiful designs with her soaps and yesterday I tried another one of them.  Mine look no where as beautiful as hers or even resemble hers but I'm enjoying myself and that's what hobbies are all about.  Lovin' it!  Thanks, Roberta, for the inspiration.

I fragrance this with Lavender and Peppermint and will use this in my Father's Day soap boxes.  This will be ready just in time. I want to send both my brothers soaps then.

Shea Butter Soap from The Chef Soap Book

I recalculated the recipe so I would have enough to fill a 32 oz mold since this recipe only made about 29 ozs of soap.  I used the purple lab color I got and it morphed in the soap.  I've never used it before and I guess I won't be using it again.  That makes me so mad when you pay good money and order stuff and you know the people you are getting it from knows if it works in cold process soap or not.  The world turns on a dollar bill.  There isn't such a thing anymore as trusting a company.  Those days are gone.

Soap Balls Left From Tiger Stripe

I made some soap balls left from the batter when I made my second tiger stripe soap.  They were too pretty to waste so I made another soap using the balls as imbeds. I scented it with lavender fragrance oil, rosemary e.o., ginger and palmarosa.  I really like the crispness of these essential oils.  I used original tallow recipe with added clay, cocoa butter, beeswax, goat milk powder, and collodial oatmeal.  I really like it.

Tiger Swirl

I made two attempts at doing a Tiger Swirl.  The first one was ok but the stripes were thick.  The second time I was able to keep my batter a little more fluid but because I was in such a hurry I didn't get my t.d. mixed well and I got little white spots that totally drives me nuts.  I hate that stuff and I don't know why we all don't refuse to use it so they would come up with something else.  

On both recipes I used Catherine's original tallow recipe. with added clay, cocoa butter, beeswax goat milk powder and collodial 
oatmeal.

This one was scented with Patchouli Rain.

This one I scented with essential oils of rosemary, clary sage, juniper berry, elang elang, and lavender frangrance oil.

Roberta's Ribbon Soap

Black, Pink, Green and White or a better name is Roberta's Ribbon Soap.  There is a person on YouTube who does her soaping in a little 1# mold and makes the prettiest swirls.  Right now I can't remember her screen name but I will look it up and fill this in later.  Anyway, I wanted to try making one of her soaps called Ribbon Soap.  Well, mine looks nothing like hers, at all.  I don't know what I did wrong unless I didn't turn my spatula as I made the swirls.  I'm thinking that is the answer.  Anyway, it is different and as they always say, "it smells good."  I scented it with Lavender, Apples & Oak from Rustic Escentuals. And I used the original tallow recipe.

Yellow Lilies

This is tea tree oil soap for Gina and Catlin.  I finally got the right amount of oil in the soap thanks to "The Soap Magician."  I made two other recipes but I was only guessing about how much to add and didn't get it right either time.  Third time was a charm and I really liked the swirls I got (I did an IPS )and the way the top turned out.  I think I will call this Yellow Lilies because of the top.

This will be a great soap for young skin.  I added beeswax, oatmeal, goat milk powder and clay.  I'm going to include the recipe here because I think it is finally the way I want it.  The basic recipe came from Soaping 101:

12.8 oz olive oil
9.6 oz coconut oil
8.0 oz. tallow
1.6 oz. castor
4.55 sodium hydroxide
8.75 liquid

I added:
2 t. clay
1 T. collodial oatmeal
1 oz. cocoa butter for superfatting
.35 oz beeswax
1 t. goat milk powder

1 oz. tea tree oil
.20 Eucalyptus Lemon oil
.20 Juniper berry oil
.10 Lime oil

For coloring I used medium blue ultramarine with flourescent red orange to get the purple and flourescent strong yellow.  I got the ultramarine from Brambleberry and the red orange and yellow are flourescent micas from TKB Trading.

The texture is wonderful and there are tons of bubbles.  

Landscape/Seascape

I was shooting for a landscape soap but got a seascape instead.  Soaping always gives you what it wants and not what you want.  It is most always a surprise.  I scented this with Beach Breezes and Lavender fragrance oil to make up the difference.  I need to order more since I love Beach Breezes.  It is my sunflower recipe.  I used rose hips and vanilla bean powder for the bottom layer that was supposed to be dirt but now we call it sand.  I did an in the pot swirl for the blue and white, made a little scooped out place in the soap and spooned in the yellow and then topped it off with the purple.  Came out very nice, visually and scent wise.

I will make this again soon because it is such a pretty soap to give as a gift.  People have no idea how you made it.  I love being able to make soap and give it away.  What a blessing.

All packaged and ready to go.  May each bar bring as much pleasure to the person receiving it and it did to me when I made it.  I love making soap!!!!