Rose Water Experiment

So I have a lot of scrap soap from the Bay View Sunset batch that I want to try adding a scent to. Right now it looks like Mac & Cheese but after it melts down I'm going to add Rose Water mix it together and pour it into molds to cure again.

In the book it suggested 2.5oz on average for adding essential oils (that's for a full recipe) I'm going to see what 2.5oz looks like but I'll most likely use that much with this first trial because essential oils are so much stronger... I'll need more rose water to make the finished bar of soap smell. So I think, so far success comes in two's:)

We checked out high quality organic essential oils at Future Green today and also took a look at their soaps ($7.50 for 4oz!) to get some ideas. We smelled and tested them but none seemed to have scents that would go with our "flavors" of soap. So we'll have to see how this rose water trial goes there is also orange blossom and lavender water we could use if this goes well that way we can stay away from the essential oils.

Nothing to Wine about...

the melt-down worked great on the wine soap:) It's purple in spots and brown in others but at least it's an overall color like we wanted! The brown color came in because we left too much juice in the grapes when we dehydrated them so next batch will be perfect. Who knew grape juice was actually brown not purple. LOL:)

Wine Soap Melt-Down

So after a week of being gone on vacation we came home to find most of the soap cured fully and was much harder. The only problem soap was the wine soap with the grapes. I really want it to be somewhat purple ultimately but it's just got these oozy clumps in it right now. It looks cool but it's messy so I'm re-melting it to see if I can perfect it. I'm just using one of the molds for the first attempt... grating it and melting it and then re-pouring it in a mold like I did when I made the hand milled soap the first time from the castile soap bar I bought.