Formula No.13

I made this one in the summer/fall of 2022. I can’t take credit for it. I found it on one of the popular soap sites. I can’t remember which so I won’t guess and if they happen upon my site and tell me it’s theirs, I will happily give them full credit (I think it was soap queen from bramble berry)

I recently sent soap bars out to family and friends to reduce my inventory and get people to use natural soap. I have a few sisters in law that are into that sort of thing.

I got good reviews on formula 13. Truth be told I had never used it at that point. So I took my one remaining bar and used it in the shower. Its some good soap. Very moisterizing and gives the skin a good feel to it. Must be the shea butter. Its got the silky shea butter feel

So since it was my last bar, I made another batch and as i was typing this I remembered that I wanted to use these mini molds that would have been cool. They say 100% homemade or something like that. But I forgot and made a loaf.

So here we go…..

The oils and weights i used to get a decent loaf.

This oil weight makes a good-sized loaf that when trimmed down to fit the shrink wrap Idont waste a lot of soap. I bought the wrong size so I have to trim them to wrap them. Not only did I buy the wrong size but i bought 750 of them.

I will be using this weight and trimming them down for a while lol

If you are a beginner and hear the word traced tossed around a lot. The picture here is an example of a thick trace. For the second batch in a row, my soap came to trace really fast. Under a minute. Must be the atmosphere in my house messing things up lol

You can see the batter the blender dripped down stayed on the surface of the mixture. That’s how you know it has reached trace

Gel watch

I just have to note here. Gelling is important to help colors pop more. I really just like to see it gel. I don’t use color often so if it doesn’t gel its not going to affect the result. I just think its really cool so I strive for it

Before it gets wrapped in cellophane and put under the cozy towels

Gel in less than an hour. I might have an example of a soap volcano looks like when this is all done

Almost completely gelled. The corners did not gel but I ain’t mad at it

Temp watch

Its a hot one to start out

Temp dropped quite a bit in an hour or so

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