My House smells like roses
November 26, 2008
Tests this week were of FD&C red lake color powdered. As you can see from the image above there are very definate differences between soap made with water and soap made with milk as well as between a batch that was frozen and one that wasn't. The bar in the center is the all water batch. It went into the fridge right after pour. The bar on the right was frozen then went into the fridge. I find it interesting that it is prettier and more rosey than the bar made with water. The darker bar on the right was put in the fridge but not frozen. While all three batches are pretty the frozen milk soap bar, to me anyway, is the nicest color.
This time I also made a batch of soap with the colorant2 recipe but no FO or colorant. While this isn't the whitest milk soap I've ever made it's nice. Later I am going to switch to one of my shea oil recipes. And ta da Anne Watson has given me permission to post a recipe from her book Milk Soap called whitest of the white. We will be testing that too at some point in time.
The colorant2 recipe is being very consistant at coming to a light trace quickly but not going to heavy trace or "gloppy" too quickly. This makes it easy to work with if you want to do layering or swirling.
Lesson learned this time is that it appears that freezing milk soap will give you a nicer color. Only time will tell if that holds true for all colorants. It also appears that with some colors at least, milk soap can be just as pretty if not prettier than colored soap made with all water. Stay tuned. I've started making Christmas tree soap.
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