Mangosteen soap with Eucalyptus essential oil

After a lot of research about how to make Mangosteen soap in various web site. I could not learn any thing much apart from their very nice soap picture. It's a light Purple colour or swirls soap.

Mangosteen have a lot of benefits in health and skin. It's been used to treat skin disorders, fight infection, ... and a very powerful antioxidant.

http://www.natural-plus-healthy.com/benefits-of-mangosteen.html

http://www.health-report.co.uk/mangosteen.htm#Mangosteen%20Information

Excited enough, today I decided to make my very first own Mangosteen soap.

All right, let's do it.
Start with peel off the skin and then take the soft Purple meat to use in soap.

I'm using sieve to milled the fibres.
One thing you may noticed is the colour of the Mangosteen fibres, it's not Purple isn't it ?
I don't understand too.

Infact, it's a brown colour and i'm using fresh fibres. I added the fibres in to the light traced soap then keep mixed thoroughly. I stirred to trace for 10 minutes then poured into mold for set.

I'm abit disappointed with the colour, I thought it will be at least light Purple or Pink.
Turn out, it's more like a green colour with some dark spots.

These pictures are all before curing time. Will se how it will be after curing time. The pH changes may changes the colour, i hope.

Have anyone have any experiences with this soap ? Please leaves your comment.
I'm eager to learn some info from you all. BIG BIG THANKS.
Await to hear from you.

EucaMatcha

It's almost that i'm obsessed with Matcha green tea and hasn't get over it yet.
I have done yet another Matcha green tea recipe with Eucalyptus essential oil.

I hope after curing time, the green tea colour will become a bit brighter.
Love it already.

New soaps

It has been a long time since i made the last soaps.
I have been playing around for new soaps and preparing for a Soap making course. I must say, if you are not practising every day, you can not make a good looking product when you are restart.
Here after are all my soaps from the 1st batch of restart to the 4th batch.

Palm oil, Rice Bran oil, Coconut oil, Lavender EO, Basil EO,
Blue, Red, Green food colouring.

Palm oil, Rice Bran oil, Coconut oil, Sweet Orange EO, Basil EO,
Green food colouring.

Palm oil, Rice Bran oil, Coconut oil, Lemongrass EO, Clove EO,
Blue food colouring.
My Blue food colouring turn out to be like Purple.

Obviously, you can see the 4th batch look much better swirls than all the batches before.

Well, as people says: PRACTISING MAKE PERFECT.
Will keep practising.

Palm oil, Rice Bran oil, Coconut oil, Lemongrass EO, Blue food colouring.

Gingergrass soap

Hi Everyone,

We are really excited with the release this week our new Gingergrass soap. This is a particularly nice morning soap that has an earthy, spicy aroma that can be emotionally uplifting and at the same time calming. A great way to start the day!!!!

As usual with all of our soaps, we superfat  to 7%, which provides a particularly mild and moisturizing soap suitable for all skin types, and especially those with dry skin. 

We have some limited numbers in stock now (first in best dressed), and are now taking new orders for this new soap.

My new products recently

My pizza

My SageParsley cake and a sprinkle of Basil seeds.

My Bay leaves.

Love is rock

I plan to make "cup cake soap" recipe to day.
Had been prepare all the mould, the oils, the herbs and everything else.......from yesterday, plus study the technique.

But my cake still look like this, this morning.

Too bad, I cannot allow my product to look like that.
Have to do some "quick fix " immediately, as you have known already that soaps turned jelly just in a minute.

This is my " quick fix " result:

Will have to practice more and more...
Still love my " heart rock " though.

Love is in the air

I try to be a bit creative to day by making a new recipe with a heart shape in it. Preparing the oils then i have mix some sesame seed in it. The sesame seed will give you a very soft, gentle exfoliation yet effective cleansing.

To completed my creative mood this morning, i have sprinkle some poppy seed on top of the soap batch
Some one said to me that poppy seed could possibility make your passionate up in the air ???
No, i think love does.

My disaster?!

As I mention yesterday, to day I have made another recipe in the morning.

Start at 9.00am, mixed the lye, weigh the oils, weigh the Eos, weigh the organics …

To day I used turmeric and lemongrass essential oil.

While I was in ‘actions’, boss came back after when out for some business and keep required me to do this and that…

It have had made me lose all my concentrate.

My soap when I poured on to the mold did not look like it will turn out to be anything.

It’s a DISASTER, I thought so.

After more than 7 hours, here it the result.

Surprisingly, it wasn’t too bad, huh? Do you think?

Stay tune, I will do more next week.

Have a good Sunday.

My first swirl soap ever

To day I make my very first swirl soap ever.

I have been prepared the ingredients for 2 days; study the ways of how to do the swirl….

9.15 am start mixing the oil with lie, stirred it up for trace and then try to mix….

I expect to have a nice swirl soap, but thing does not turn out as expect.

It turns out like “chocolate & vanilla ice-cream” which we ( me and my partner )love to have for desert after dinner.

Still good enough, I thought for myself, for the first try.

Will going to make anther one tomorrow.

Keep watching!

And importance, my “chocolate & vanilla ice-cream” will be available in market by the end of the month.