This Weeks Soap Pot

Whats cookin'?? What have we been up to lately? Mostly just soap making.

Here is our Cucumber Cantaloupe and Prickly Pear...

...and here is our Dragon's Blood and Gardenia...

I have a lot to get made to finish stocking up in preparation for the Holidays...and we have a new line of soaps in the works, so be on the lookout for that. :)

Seized Soap

So what is seized soap...that is when the soap seizes in the pot before you can get it poured in the mold. There are various reasons for this to happen, for me the biggest reason is because of the fragrance oil...and most likely it is a floral scented fragrance oil.

This is our gardenia soap...makes a beautifully scented white soap.

This is the batch that seized on me. :(



It is still a safe and useable bar of soap...just not so attractive. When it seizes you just try to salvage the batch by throwing it in your mold and banging the mold on the counter best you can to get the soap settled...hoping to not find air pockets when you cut the loaf.

Here you can see the comparison. Sadly I dont have a bunch of gardenia lovers in my family...so what to do with 12 bars of these wonky looking soaps??!!