soap making

Christmas Scene soap

Christmas soap in slab mold featuring a frozen lake, snowflakes, a penguin, pine treees, and a snowman

This was my soap for the Winter Collaboration called Wonderland. The requisites were to use white, glitter and milk!

I decided to use coconut milk and add it at trace. Usually I add milk (if I am using it) to the water phase, in frozen form to avoid the lye burning the sugars of the milk which can result in stinky soap (it has happened to me!)

Thankfully the coconut milk, which was added at trace (it was a small amount, about 2 tablespoons, did not cause any issues or discoloration. I found that the soap was too thin for my taste, so when I remade it (yes I had the opportunity to make it again), I made it thicker and changed a few things.

I have a very supportive friend who likes to see what I am working on, so I sent her a picture of it, or so I thought. It turns out I mistakenly sent it to another person, I apologized, but it turns out that this lady also appreciates art and pretty things (she is an artist herself), and later commissioned me to make her two of them, uncut, to be displayed as a painting. I was so happy! Here are the two soaps I made for her:

Christmas soap in slab mold featuring a frozen lake, snowflakes, a white owl, a penguin, a cabin, snowman and deer
Christmas Scene Soap 2

Here is a link to the recipe and the video of the making:

RECIPE LINK

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