Sausage Casing Soap Log

A soaper friend of mine sent me some plastic tube sleeves (thanks Pam!), those were originally used to protect tube shipping, now used for soaping!  I have to say, it is a great inexpensive alternative to using PVC pipe for mold!  Except it takes more effort to plan how to pour it standing right side up.

I also combined this experiment with my shaving soap retry.  I said retry because I made shaving soap before (long ago) and it didn't work out so great.  It seems like my soaping experiments are like fashion trending, always recirculate back to the old time and then reinvent.

Here's the before formula:

Lots of Olive oil (lemongrass mint infused)

Coconut oil

Almond oil

Castor oil

Bee's wax

And here's the reinvented version:

Coconut oil

Castor oil

Olive oil (lemongrass chamomile infused)

Palm oil

Cocoa butter

Almond oil

Stearic acid

Glycerin

Bentonite clay

Silk fiber

Look at all that air bubbles I trapped!  It's caused by thick trace and pouring high into a narrow tube!

This is how is looks like right after pour hanging in my kitchen like a tube of sausage!

Now you ask, what's my secrete of pouring into this flimzy tube?  It's actually not my idea, the credit goes to a soap maker friend of mine, Pam from By the Sea Soap!  She sent me a few cut sections of these plastic tubes to try, together with a cut can (the ones for concentrated juice, made out of cardboard material and metal rim).  She slipped the tube through the can and used the metal rim to hold tube open.  What a genius!  This kind of cheap instant solution found in the kitchen is totally up my alley!