{"id":1159,"date":"2017-05-24T07:20:15","date_gmt":"2017-05-24T12:20:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lisa.rushworth.us\/?p=1159"},"modified":"2017-05-24T07:20:15","modified_gmt":"2017-05-24T12:20:15","slug":"new-soaps","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rushworth.us\/lisa\/?p=1159","title":{"rendered":"New Soaps"},"content":{"rendered":"

We’ve made a bunch of new soaps this past week — mostly using the same 20% super-fat all coconut oil recipe, although I made a 0% super-fat coconut oil soap to use as laundry detergent. We just have to visit some store that actually stocks washing soda (WalMart – not somewhere I frequent, but according to their web site … it’s stocked at every local store here).<\/p>\n

We made a rainbow swirl soap with orange essential oil — important thing about making rainbow swirl soap? Don’t try to smooth out the top!\u00a0The whole top is a consistent lavender colour … cool, though, because the rainbow bits appear as you use the soap. Totally\u00a0not<\/em> what I was going for, though.<\/p>\n

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Another swirled soap using activated charcoal\u00a0and green\u00a0zeolite clay with tea tree essential oil. Again the swirl didn’t turn out the way I wanted … I think you’ve got to have\u00a0really<\/em> fluid soap batter to get these swirl techniques to\u00a0succeed. This batch was less thick than the rainbow above … but it still got gloppy as I poured it. Also – there’s a reason the ‘column pour’ technique has a square in the middle. If you use a round object (say, a glass that you happen to have and know won’t be harmed by soap) , you get concentric circles. Not a design with scallops to it.<\/p>\n

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And I’ve found a few new recipes that I’d like to try — one is using pureed cucumber in place of water <\/a>in the soap. And one that’s got to wait for next year — using daffodils as the colourant<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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