Soap!

Don informed me yesterday that we were getting low on soap. So today I made soap.

I make all our soap.  Some cold processed and some hot processed. I make lots of different varieties using all types of oils and butters..my soaps are very rich and full of moisturizing oils and butters, since we live in the hot sun our skin tends to get very dried out.

Some have natural colorants and some without, some with fragrance and some without, and some in fancy molds. But most just plain loaves with no color or fragrance added that I'll slice into bars after they've cured.  The plain loaves don't make pretty photos, so I'll just show you some of the fancy looking ones.

The transparent ones are aloe vera based



The rest have varied combinations of oils and butters.





I also made  a couple batches of body butters.

Someone asked me a while back about how I get the soaps out of the fancy molds, because they always had trouble getting them out. It's easy, I just rub a little coconut carrier oil in the mold before pouring the soap mixture in.  Then once they've set up, they just pop right out!