This is great, and really gives me some ideas. I've only made goats milk soap once, and it is all sold out in my shop and I haven't restocked it yet, and really want to. I am also very cautious about fragrance oils. My main focus is using as all natural ingredients as I can, for both scents and colors, but unfortunately it just doesn't always translate well. I'm thinking on making a Christmas soap in the next few days, I just received liquid chlorophyll which is supposed to stay green in CP soap. I am using red Moroccan clay for the red, I just used it in a spiced cranberry and orange soap, and the color has stayed pretty bright, which I am so glad for! So many natural reds turn brownish and get dull. I am not sure what scent I want to use. I had great success with JPs fragrance oils when going synthetic, especially with coffee and cotton candy scents. For the cotton candy I used pink French clay in half and swirled in around with the other half and it made a decent pink and white swirl. Making more of that soon as well. I've also got plans for a blueberry soap made with fragrance oil and using german chamomile essential oil for the blue color. Apologies for writing a novel, I just absolutely love talking about soap and ideas for it. Thank you for posting and I hope you have great success!! ❤
Thank you so much and I know exactly what you mean by talking soap all day. I can spend hours talking someone's ear off about soap and everything I've learned. I've never heard of liquid chlorophyll but I love learning about new indredients so I will definitely be looking into it. I don't know if you have ever watched Tree Marie Soapworks channel, but she has an amazing video about natural colorants. She also shows what they look like (will they fade or not) over time. She really does a great job and it takes a lot of guess work out of it. She also has a lot of tutorials of design techniques. For me personally, I like to use fragrance oils more than essential oil in my cold process soap. I oven process my soaps and I found that essential oil don't survive the heat. But I do love to use essential oils in my therapeutic lotions and oils, or my sensitive skin and pet soap. Pertaining to Goat's Milk in soap, I love the feel of it. I also like the feel of Coconut Milk in my soap and use that with my vegan friendly recipe (elderflower & quince soap and sugar plum & fig soap). I can tell that there is a creamier texture to the soap and lather. Just love the milks. Well, as you can see, I can also write a novel ;) Again, thank you so much for you kind words and the little chit chat about my favorite obsession (soap making, haha). Have a wonderful day and wishing you great success as well.
@@hoxleyholesoap I never thought about coconut milk in soap, what a fantastic idea! I definitely agree about the lather and texture of milk soaps, there is just something so decadent feeling about them. I will look up Tree Marie Soapworks channel asap. Would be great to have more visuals about natural coloring. I got a lot of info from a site called lovelygreens when I started out. I've never processed my soap in the oven, how neat! I've had to fix a couple of batches by doing the crockpot method when I got a false trace on some honey soap haha. I love that there is so many ways to do it! Truly learn something everyday with it. I also make lotions and sugar scrubs, and am experimenting with balms and salves. Thank you so much for your reply! Have a wonderful night :)
Loved the video, the colors are beautiful. Thanks for sharing.
Beautiful!
You are doing great.
Thank you so much. I still feel so awkward in front of the camera. This was actually my 3rd take😅
This is great, and really gives me some ideas. I've only made goats milk soap once, and it is all sold out in my shop and I haven't restocked it yet, and really want to. I am also very cautious about fragrance oils. My main focus is using as all natural ingredients as I can, for both scents and colors, but unfortunately it just doesn't always translate well.
I'm thinking on making a Christmas soap in the next few days, I just received liquid chlorophyll which is supposed to stay green in CP soap. I am using red Moroccan clay for the red, I just used it in a spiced cranberry and orange soap, and the color has stayed pretty bright, which I am so glad for! So many natural reds turn brownish and get dull. I am not sure what scent I want to use.
I had great success with JPs fragrance oils when going synthetic, especially with coffee and cotton candy scents. For the cotton candy I used pink French clay in half and swirled in around with the other half and it made a decent pink and white swirl. Making more of that soon as well.
I've also got plans for a blueberry soap made with fragrance oil and using german chamomile essential oil for the blue color.
Apologies for writing a novel, I just absolutely love talking about soap and ideas for it. Thank you for posting and I hope you have great success!! ❤
Thank you so much and I know exactly what you mean by talking soap all day. I can spend hours talking someone's ear off about soap and everything I've learned. I've never heard of liquid chlorophyll but I love learning about new indredients so I will definitely be looking into it.
I don't know if you have ever watched Tree Marie Soapworks channel, but she has an amazing video about natural colorants. She also shows what they look like (will they fade or not) over time. She really does a great job and it takes a lot of guess work out of it. She also has a lot of tutorials of design techniques.
For me personally, I like to use fragrance oils more than essential oil in my cold process soap. I oven process my soaps and I found that essential oil don't survive the heat. But I do love to use essential oils in my therapeutic lotions and oils, or my sensitive skin and pet soap.
Pertaining to Goat's Milk in soap, I love the feel of it. I also like the feel of Coconut Milk in my soap and use that with my vegan friendly recipe (elderflower & quince soap and sugar plum & fig soap). I can tell that there is a creamier texture to the soap and lather. Just love the milks.
Well, as you can see, I can also write a novel ;) Again, thank you so much for you kind words and the little chit chat about my favorite obsession (soap making, haha). Have a wonderful day and wishing you great success as well.
@@hoxleyholesoap I never thought about coconut milk in soap, what a fantastic idea! I definitely agree about the lather and texture of milk soaps, there is just something so decadent feeling about them. I will look up Tree Marie Soapworks channel asap. Would be great to have more visuals about natural coloring. I got a lot of info from a site called lovelygreens when I started out.
I've never processed my soap in the oven, how neat! I've had to fix a couple of batches by doing the crockpot method when I got a false trace on some honey soap haha. I love that there is so many ways to do it! Truly learn something everyday with it.
I also make lotions and sugar scrubs, and am experimenting with balms and salves.
Thank you so much for your reply! Have a wonderful night :)