Saturday, June 30, 2012

Evaporated Milk Soap - Midnight Woods

Normally I soap with items I find in my kitchen but since I don't cook with evaporated milk I wouldn't go out of my way to get it.  A couple weeks back I was shown how to make Malaysian Laksa noodle soup which uses both coconut milk and evaporated milk.  I got one extra little can to spare, so guess what?!  Into the soap it went!
I freeze the milk into ice cubes then dissolve lye slowly with the ice cube I made.  It was all going well until I got distracted by the photo stealing incident, see this blog post: Truth about Watermarking My Works
Then I totally forgot about the evaporated milk lye solution in the ice bath!!!  By the time I saw it again it was after dinner... and the lye milk had gone to very thick and burned a little to tan.  I didn't want to waste the milk, melted my oil and butter really quick and proceeded to soap making as planned.  Since now the lye milk is looking tan in color I'm not sure if my color scheme would still work.  I took out my titanium dioxide to lighten up part of the batter and add some tan mica to the other portion trying to increase the contrast.  This batch moved fast because of the thicken milk lye.  I couldn't do the intricate swirl I originally planned to do because by the time all 4 color batter poured into the mold it was not moving at all.  I told a thick stick and swirled it anyway thinking it couldn't be worse.
I was pleasantly surprised the next day when I cut the log.  I took a normal cut and it looks the way I expected to get.
Then I tried to cut it the other way and found an interesting pattern I've never thought of making!
Now let's see the top
I named this one Midnight Woods.

14 comments:

  1. wow...soap looks fab, i would never have thought of using evaporated milk, a brilliant idea :)

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  2. Love it! Always was curious about evaporated milk but too chicken sh%t to try. Thanks for posting!

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  3. This was a boo-boo in the making??? Seriously? All of our intentionally wonderful plans, best laid ones at that, never turn out this beautiful! For cryin' out loud! I'm just so humbled and frankly a bit intimidated by this. This is an amazing result from something you'd nearly forgotten about. Wish mine could be that wonderful even if I wasn't distracted. This is gorgeous, really!

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  4. Wow. That turned out so interesting and pretty! The name is perfect.

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  5. As always colored and swirled to perfection! I love this one and wonder what the fragrance is too!

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    1. The fragrance oil is called Twilight Woods, I think it's a dupe, I just renamed it to Midnight Woods.

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  6. Gorgeous new soap. Are you using Photoshop to watermark your photos? I have some program I got ages ago but thinking Photoshop may be better for that.

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    1. Yes I use photoshop for photo editing and watermark. I'm also in the process of getting a soap stamp done, will see if soap stamping is better than watermarking every photo I'm putting out there in public.

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    2. I've just figured out how to watermark in Photoshop. It's a bit time consuming and found another app that is a bit faster.

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    3. I'm sure there are a few programs easier to watermark than Photoshop, but I'm so used to photoshop, I use it to edit to design to do my tags I can't live without it.

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  7. your Midnight Woods is beautiful!

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  9. Wow! Your Midnight Woods soap is absolutely gorgeous. =)

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