Soap Flop?

Last week I was anxious to try a couple of new cold process soaps.

Here’s a video of one of them.  It’s on YouTube too.

The soap set up super fast and was nearly solid when I smushed it into the mold.

I was afraid the layers might split apart once it was cut, but all is good!

It doesn’t have the exact look I was going for,

but the layers stuck.

The bars don’t look too bad considering

what it took to get the soap into the mold.

It’s scented with a refreshing lime mint.

This one still needs a name.  Any suggestions? 

Thanks for reading!

Happy Earth Day!!

I made this soap recently.  It’s inspired by the earth and smells like dirt and grass.  It’s a breath of fresh air in the springtime in Iowa.  The scent in this soap is what it smells like in my garden when I get to play in the dirt for the first time each spring.

I started off with a layer of dirt. 

Then I added a layer of grass.  I envisioned crisp layers of black and green with straight lines, but ended up (once again) pouring the second layer while the first layer was still runny.  So I knew that crisp, straight lines were not going to happen.

Once the second layer was set a bit, I added the sky.  Then at the very top, I plopped white clouds into the sky.

I cut the loaf into bars the other day.  I was so anxious to cut it to find out what each slice would look like.  I had no idea whether the look I was after would turn out at all.

Here are some of the the bars. No two are exactly alike.  What do you think?

 Thanks for reading!