April 6, 1999
A friend of mine from work told me that the background I use one these pages -- the bubbles image (which is actually a background from my iMac at home) -- is annoying. Anyone else think so? I always thought it was kind of cute, myself... :)
That same friend told me that I'm writing in old HTML -- not up to the newest standards. Sigh. Why can't they leave anything the same long enough for me to get it all figured out?
Over the weekend I made three batches of soap. I was pretty proud of myself, because I literally hadn't made any soaps for probably a whole month. Just with the job change and being incredibly behind on email, plus I have the milk soaps swap that's been delayed like 2 weeks still in my house.. I guess I just haven't felt like it. I mean, I kind of did -- especially when I got in some wonderful Stargazer Lily FO that smells *just* like the flowers (which are *gorgeous*), I was dying to make some soap with it. I powdered some peppermint herb and infused some oil to make my peppermint foot scrubby soap, which I'm running out of. Just never got around to it. The kitchen was a mess, or there was laundry to do, or something else. Steve threw out the peppermint infused almond oil after like two weeks of it sitting on the counter, which was depressing because there went half a pound of perfectly good oil. I don't know why I was so lethargic. I eventually cleaned up the back porch a bit -- it's still a mess, but at least we can make it from one door to the other now -- and this weekend I made some more soap. Yay! :)
OK, so I made three batches. They are:- Peppermint Foot Scrubby Soap II
- Hempseed and Cocoa Butter with Bitter Almond
- Hempseed and Goatsmilk with Sweet Orange II
The peppermint foot scrubby soap I made the first time I liked a lot, but it had lots of deep green lather which tended to leave greenish soap scum on our white tiled bathtub. It was also quite soft and tended to squish a bit. So I made a new recipe for it:
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Peppermint Foot Scrubby Soap II
I dissolved the salt and sugar in the water in a beaker -- I admit it, it looks geeky, but I like using the beakers, besides they're just as cheap and more versatile than the measuring cups -- and let it sit for a while. Dissolved the lye in the solution and let it cool. Melt together:
Measure and set out:
Mix melted base oils and lye solution until trace. At trace, blend in the melted mango butter, peppermint, and corn meal. When that's all mixed in, add the peppermint EO. At a thick trace -- so the peppermint herb stays evenly distributed -- pour the mixture into a mold. This batch fills half of Barry's mold for me. |
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Hempseed and Cocoa Butter with Bitter Almond Dissolve together and let cool:
Melt together:
At trace, add:
Upon reflection, this is a really smooth bar. Next time I might add some powdered oatmeal or something to give it a little more texture. Of course, I like texture.. YMMV. :) |
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Sweet Orange & Hempseed GMS II Dissolve together and let cool:
Melt together:
Measure and set aside:
At trace, add:
Ok, now I know you're asking... so where's the goats milk? Here it is! :) I slowly added the lye to chilled water/sugar/salt solution, then put it in the freezer until chilly. Then I put the powdered goatsmilk into another container, and sloooowly added lye-solution to the goatsmilk to avoid lumps and other nasties. Turned into a really thick liquid. Then I integrated that into the oils and blended until trace. It resulted in nice beige bars, instead of the tan bars I got last time I did hempseed GMS. |
OK, my left wrist is killing me... Done with this diary entry! :)
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