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rachels.haven
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Soaping with Shaun on Christmas Eve Eve while I was sore from hoof trimming.
Pictured is olive oil/goat tallow/milk soap. Mark's mom wanted plain "boring" soap. It's so white you can see if it picks anything up so it's banished to the bin. The pink is watermelon and the yellow is yuzu scent and Shaun went to town. The "sprinkles" is mica I bought off Amazon that discolored when I mixed it in a few years ago. I wound up with orange peppermint soap last time. I can't use it so he is to keep him busy while I do another batch or clean up.
I still have golden jersey tallow to get through. I think I'd like to get more coconut oil include because I suspect the olive oil tallow is going to be very, very gentle, kind of like baby soap and also hard and coconut oil in the mix makes it more cleansing and a little softer.
This stuff will need to sit for a month before being used. And I'm sure the first few times the kids use it they're going to need to rinse extra to get Shaun's sprinkles off or they will be blue or green or red or gold (note that I spared Mark's mom from that fate and hers is JUST tallow/milk soap color). Or the boys may leave it on because they're boys and all and that's how we roll.
...I kind of want to make little half globe embeds and make half egg/deviled egg soaps with those bar molds at some point. Maybe some green eggs and ham soap. Or Avacado looking soaps.
Pictured is olive oil/goat tallow/milk soap. Mark's mom wanted plain "boring" soap. It's so white you can see if it picks anything up so it's banished to the bin. The pink is watermelon and the yellow is yuzu scent and Shaun went to town. The "sprinkles" is mica I bought off Amazon that discolored when I mixed it in a few years ago. I wound up with orange peppermint soap last time. I can't use it so he is to keep him busy while I do another batch or clean up.
I still have golden jersey tallow to get through. I think I'd like to get more coconut oil include because I suspect the olive oil tallow is going to be very, very gentle, kind of like baby soap and also hard and coconut oil in the mix makes it more cleansing and a little softer.
This stuff will need to sit for a month before being used. And I'm sure the first few times the kids use it they're going to need to rinse extra to get Shaun's sprinkles off or they will be blue or green or red or gold (note that I spared Mark's mom from that fate and hers is JUST tallow/milk soap color). Or the boys may leave it on because they're boys and all and that's how we roll.
...I kind of want to make little half globe embeds and make half egg/deviled egg soaps with those bar molds at some point. Maybe some green eggs and ham soap. Or Avacado looking soaps.
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but DD was grown!
