Showing posts with label soap making. Show all posts
Showing posts with label soap making. Show all posts

Friday, September 6, 2013

So, today I used a Crock Pot to make Soap

Today, I made soap in my old crock pot.
This is what it looked like after 55 minutes.
I used this tutorial.
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to learn to make the soap.
I made a bigger recipe than the one given in this tutorial, so part of my 
soap
is still curing.


This is the loaf of soap as it's still curing.

These are the odd shaped pieces of soap.
I will cut off the rough bottoms to make a small bar of soap.
I scented this soap with rose essential oils.
My house smells of roses right now.

One thing I do need to mention is when you clean up,
make sure you rinse each piece of glass ware or pan that you want to put in the dishwasher, before they do in the dishwasher,
because,
if you don't,
this will happen.

This took a long time to clean up.
After I had finished, someone suggested using vinegar to cut the soap.
Sigh!
I wish I had thought of that sooner.
Oh, well!

Thursday, September 5, 2013

So the Soap Really is Setting Up!!!

It's in the oven and curing.
Yes, the oven is turned off, but it was turned on for a bit.

 As I write this, the soap is hardening.
Tomorrow, I will take it out of the molds and slice the soap.
Then, it will sit for 2-4 weeks to finish the 
curing process.
I can hardly wait!

So, tomorrow or Friday, I am going to make sure that I am home for, at least 2.5 hours.
I will be making soap in an old crock pot.
When you make soap in a crock pot, the soap is ready to use in
1-2 days.
I can hardly wait!!!!