Thursday, 1 September 2016

Soap from scratch, another try

Last summer, I had made a few batches of soap.  I didn't used any soap bases for them.  All from scratch and using ingredients.  I used a recipe.  My very first try was not terrible.  The others were a bit better.  I know those tries were not selleable.  My main problem was to weight the ingredients correctly and the color of the result.  It was my first tries, so, I guess that kind of result was to be expected.  I used them as hand soap. It was quite effective.  I didn't used it any other way and it was doing a good work keeping hands clean.

I decided to try again.  I needed to do some more anyway, just to replenish the small stockpile I had.
Here is the result and what I made of it:
I didn't used any recipie but I noted what I used with the quantities.  It is creamy.  At first, when mixing everything together, I tought it would make a liquid soap.  I put it in molds anyway.  Of course, an expert could have done better than I had.  I am still learning from making soap from scratch.  It is where having a class on that specific way of making soap would be useful.

I know I want to master this more quickly.  I also am terrible at measuring and weghting ingredients.  It get all messed up.  I will use this soap as last year batches  and think if I will do other soap like that.  For sure, it seems so easy on videos and books!

No comments:

Post a Comment