The pot we used as a double boiler to melt the oils.
The bowl the soap was in.
Just after we poured the soap into molds.
The finished soap out of the molds.
Friday, April 06, 2007
Soapmaking
For awhile now Melissa and I have been wanting to try making soap. It took us awhile to get together the ingredients and supplies to actually do it. On Wednesday we finally had everything we needed so we tried making a small batch. We used a simple goat milk soap recipe that we got from the Majestic Mountain Sage website. The soap has goat milk, palm oil, olive oil, coconut oil, sweet almond oil, and lye in it. We scented it with lemon essential oil. The whole process was a lot of fun and pretty easy too. This morning we just took it out of the molds, now it has to cure for several weeks before it can be used. It turned out very nice. It is light and creamy and smells wonderful. I forgot to take pictures of the whole process but took some just after we finished.
The pot we used as a double boiler to melt the oils.
The bowl the soap was in.
Just after we poured the soap into molds.
The finished soap out of the molds.
The pot we used as a double boiler to melt the oils.
The bowl the soap was in.
Just after we poured the soap into molds.
The finished soap out of the molds.
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3 comments :
hello girls!! i am positively in love with your goat milk soaps. they are beautiful and i can almost smell their lemony goodness!! too bad they aren't edible as well! this is a craft i have always wanted to do. i made some glycerine soaps one time but they lacked the creamy fragrant texture that yours no doubt will have. keep it up! i would love to see them one day and get a good "whiff" of them. when will computers get "smell-o-vision" anyway! lol love,julie harris
p.o. liz and i recently saw "far from the madding crowd" masterpiece theater(slo library copy)..good, we recommend it to you.
Thanks for the comment!! It was such fun to make the soap. And yes they smell edible- like lemon cream pie. :)We will have to check out that movie, it sounds interesting. We still want to have you come see North and South with us sometime.
Celeste
Sharon just let me borrow North and South, and I loved it. It was better than I was expecting. Have you read the book?
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