What's curing?

I have some soaps-a-curing. It feels good to be making lots and lots of soap again, I really missed it. I
mean I still made between 7-10 lbs per year for family and as gifts but it doesn't compare to planning out really large batches or a bunch of smaller artisanal batches and just taking the day to soap. I few weeks ago I started to get down to it. My hubby helped me to build a really sweet art space in our new house and I wanted to break it in right with some soap!

I made 5 batches right away. I am working to focus more on natural colorants, additives and scents, but sometimes I like to throw caution to the wind and make that coconut lime verbena scented soap that I love so much. My batches were all made with the same base ingredients and I just changed out the scents and colors. Why you may ask? Because the recipe is a good one, it saponifies consistently and creates a bar of soap that it quite lovely. I have been using and perfecting this recipe for years at this point and I feel that it creates a great and consistent product. Also once you find that perfect recipe that makes a great bar of soap you can also cut out a lot of other expenses and streamline ordering which makes good business sense.

The pictures I took were not great this evening, I am still working on better lighting for the studio, I will take new pics and put them into this post....really though, it's smell-a-vision that is needed. They do smell good! I made a few classic scents like lemon/lavender and the coconut lime verbena that I love as well as some newer ones like "Happy Hippy" which is patchouli and ylang ylang then colored with chamomile powder. There is also a "Citrus Sunshine" bar which has various citrus scents and a "Cold Snap" bar which has delicious winter scents such as eucalyptus, peppermint and spearmint.

My house smells divine!

Ta for now,
~Your Soapsmith