Tuesday, August 23, 2011

Soap for Rabbits

Not that I'm suggesting using this soap to wash rabbits...  
This is just my new soap made with 2 lovely ingredients: fresh carrot and coconut milk.  when I make carrot soap in the past I always just grind up some fresh carrot in the food processor with some water and use it as it is.  This time I want more smooth look without speckles, so I used the coffee filter to separate the juice from solid.  I used half of the fresh cold carrot juice to dissolved my lye and the other half mixed into the coconut milk I would add to the soap mixture later.  Since I can't avoid partial gelling for my milk soap lately, I decided to just let this one fully gelled up by itself.  For visual effect, I chose to do faux funnel swirl (meaning funnel swirl without using a fennel, just pour on the same spot by hand).  Faux funnel pour if done right looks exactly like the real funnel pour, but it's easier to perform when raw soap is less than ideal thin trace.  The brown is colored by dark cocoa powder and the red is by red clay.  Fresh carrot juice, dark cocoa powder and red clay are strong in color in making cold process soap, gelling it intensified the depth even some more!

10 comments:

  1. oooooooooooh! totally cool looking soap!

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  2. That is just beautiful!!! I love love love it, the colours are amazing. I must try this technique but can't work out how to do my nice tops too LOL

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  3. YESSS, this soap looks really wonderful, original. I like very much its name. Congratulations

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  4. Thanks ladies, it looks and feel like a piece of dense carrot cake with chocolate mouse layers.
    @Celine, reinvent it, just like what you did to the spoon swirl!

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  5. What beautiful colors and love the technique! Did you fragrance it for fall? So nice!

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  6. Why did I keep on forgetting to tell you guys what scent the soap is?! Urg... I probably assume you all are psychics! This soap is scented with majority ginger & orange essential oil, and accented with patchouli, clary sage, and cassai essential oil.

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  7. It's a perfect autumn soap! I love your choice of colors and I bet it smells as good as it looks.

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  8. Your soap looks amazing and I love the colours and swirls. I've never been able to get colours to go like that ... but will keep trying!

    The scent sounds divine!

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  9. It turned out so pretty! Very intense color for an all-natural soap - I love it! And you've inspired me to try using some carrot juice - seems easy enough.

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  10. I love this soap! Love the colours, the scent and the swirls. It´s great!!

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