Soft, Clean Blue and Bath Truffles

I have been enjoying this new fragrance from Natures Garden, "Baby Clean".  It is a delicate clean scent and while it does not bring up baby images when I smell it I do enjoy the clean, fresh scent.  The vendor describes it as:

 "...top notes of granny smith apple, lemon zest, and hints of mint, rounded out with blossoms of spring wildflowers, butterfly violets & honeysuckle..."

I recently tried it with the "sugar melting scrub" :(, so this time around I decided to try it with cold press soap.  I was very happy with the results.  It was a wonderful scent to work with, no acceleration or ricing.  Gave me time to play around.  Here are the results, I added sodium lactate for a harder bar and I was able to unmold and cut right away.

I used ultramarine blue to come up with a very light blue and the other half of the soap I added Kaolin Clay for a light off-white color and almost natural.  Here is a pic:

I have also been getting a little obsessed with bath products.  I tried a bubble bar and it did not go that well.  I did a little digging up in the Internet and checked out the Soap Queen TV YouTube channel.  I discovered this recent tutorials on how to do Bath Truffles.  Yahoo...something new to try!  Here is Anne Marie's video tutorial:

and here is a pic of my results:

I decided to use Shea and Mango Butter, replaced the SLS with SLSA.  I think I may have gotten a little carried away with the butter since when I crumbled it in the bath most of my bubbles went flat :(
But I did enjoy the extra oils in the bath water.  It does make surfaces slippery after so you need to use caution when stepping out.

All in all I was happy with my first Bath Truffle.  Thank you Anne Marie for the video tutorial! :)

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Happy Soaping!
Roxana