Looks good enough to eat
Wash your mouth out!
Soap slacker: It's been months since I made soap and the natives are restless. It's gotten so bad, we actually had to buy a bar. Fie on that!
I'm what's called a cold-process soapmaker. CP for those in the know. There's also M&P--melt and pour--but us CPers see M&Pers as taking the chicken way out. But you can get some wicked soap if you M&P. Check out Pisces Soap's grilled cheese sandwich!
CPers mix their oils--in my case olive, coconut and palm--with a lye solution at a low temp between 80 and 100 degrees F. (Yes, there are hot process (HP) soap makers--they do some kind of weird ass thing in a crock pot, don't ask me how.) Then we stir the crap out of it (my life changed when I bought a stick blender) and incorporate essential oils. Finally we pour it in to molds, let it saponify--the official soapmaking verb--extract it, cut it and let it cure. You have to be a little nuts to make soap.
Here's the deal: Once you start using homemade soap, you can't go back. Ever. I cringe when I see a bar of Dial. Turn my nose up at cheap, heavily fragranced soaps. And have been known to hiss: How can you put that toxic shit on your body! Let me reiterate, you have to be a little nuts to make soap.
Anyway here's the latest batch out curing. The swirly bar is a citrus-patchouli blend, the plain is tangerine-coriander. I don't ship.
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