Whipped Soap...kind of

Have you seen Cee's Whipped Soap Blog?  (Oil and Butter Blog)

 

 

It's so creamy, beautiful and just divine...

 

So what do you think I wanted to try next...well Whipped Soap of course :)

 

So I reviewed Cee's post and also a tutorial from Nizzy , and just when I thought I was ready for it I reviewed it again.  I WAS READY!

 

I should have used one of the recipes listed in Nizzy's tutorial, but hard headed that I am, I decided to try one of my basic recipes and just tweaked it a little so that I had a higher ratio of harder oils.

 

So there I was entering everything into my soap calculator, singing a happy tune.  I was home alone (kids were at school and daycare) and had all the time in the world to work on my soap.  I WAS READY!!

 

I started to whip my hard oils and they were looking pretty nice and fluffy.  I was getting pretty excited.  Earlier I had frozen some Goats Milk and had slowly mixed in my lye, so it was ready, waiting in an ice bath .  IT WAS READY!!! 

 

I used a new fragrance from Nature's Garden called Peach Perfection.  It is so yummy that it is now one of my favorites!

So there I was with fluffy oils and then I slowly started to add the Olive and Castor Oil...before you know it my fluffy oils turned into a soft, melted ice cream consistency.  GRRRRRRR...I used too much soft oils.  SIGH...so I was hoping that the mixture would get a little thicker once I added the lye water.  Well, I carefully mixed in the lye water, making sure not to splatter anything (since I was using a mixer instead of a stick blenders).  Well, the more I mixed the runnier it got!  I added the fragrance and it was still just as runny.  I was getting pretty frustrated.  It was obvious that my try at Whipped Soap had certainly not worked.

So I colored it - got some pretty cool swirls and put this puppy in the fridge...thinking that with the goat milk  it may over heat on me. 

Here are the pics

 

It had a really weird mousse consistency.  It actually looked pretty yummy and it smelled AMAZING! 

 

 

Well, since it was a bit too soft I had to wait to cut it up. 

 

 

 

At first I also was not sure how I was going to go about cutting it since Whipped Soap tends to harden up pretty quick and may crack as you cut.  Now with this "Frankenstein" kind of soap I was not sure how I was going to go about cutting it.  So I took a change and cut it the following day. 

Sadly my soap had some lye pockets within the soap.  It was pretty upsetting.  All those oils, and I really thought that I blended it really well.  I am thinking that because of the Goats Milk that it overheated on me.  GRRRRR

Well, obviously I WAS NOT READY for Whipped Soap.  :0(

So instead I drowned my sorrows in melting wax and came up with these cute little Wax Melts...
I think they are so cute and sure put a smile on my face :)

Thanks for checking out my blog! 

HAPPY SOAPING!

Roxana