Thai Pina Colada Soap

Pineapple and coconut was one of my first ever fragrance combos that I tried when I started soaping a few months ago, and I still love it.  I was born in Thailand, so I am in search of the perfect "Thai" fragrance blend.  I also wanted to do a soap with the Iowa Hawkeye colors, so here we go:

 

 

 

For the blend, I used pineapple-cilantro from Brambleberry, as well as Coconut Cream from Save on Scents, along with a dash of Lemongrass-lavender (local vendor) and Basil from Brambleberry.  It smells mostly like pineapple; I am hoping the scent will mellow a bit as it cures.

 

The color does look faintly green on top in the "wet" pic but it's more of a gray.  The batch took a while to set up and I kept futzing with it, trying to get the ridges on top.  Which mixed the colors more than I would have liked.  But I like the inside swirl!

Results of Rebatch & Blackberry Patch Soap

Here's how the rebatched soap turned out.  My husband's effort is stacked on top of my glop-n-pray effort:

 

My part is definitely a wash (pun intended!)  It's just horrible.  I'm going to let it harden and then grate it down for laundry soap.  DH's soaps, the ones on top, are nice but they are soft.  At least they're usable.

 

Last week I made a new blackberry soap.  The Blackberry Sage FO comes from Peak Candle Supply, and it's so fruity that it makes my teeth itch.  I tried to cut it with some patchouli FO from a local soap supply store, but the BS FO drowned it out.  This one will definitely be a giveaway or selling soap as I just don't like the fragrance, but I'm sure someone will!

 

Wet:

 

 

 

 

Green Tea Soap

I gave away a bunch of sample sized bars at a client site last month, and a friend of mine from there ordered 3 bars of the green tea soap!  Yay!  I tried a new color combo.  I'm not sure about the gray-moss-green part of the swirl, but it sure is dramatic.

 

Wet:

 

 

Cut:

 

 

 

I'm pretty darn close to my standard formula - coconut oil, castor oil, grapeseed oil, and pig lard.  I have no problems using animal fat, personally, and that list is all available locally for me.  Whatever works, right?