Gorgeous looking bars! My experience with salt bars is they feel rough and exfoliating to start with and then as you use them they become so incredibly smooth, like a stone. I've always put all 50% in the batter. I'm going to try putting half in the Lye next time.
I love that you push the boundaries, you send the soaping old ideas, right out the door. It's soapers like you that take the chances and run with it. And 99% of the time, you succeed. Then you try another way and prove you can achieve the unachievable. Bravo 👏 👏 thank you for being you. 😍 😍
Brine bars totally confuse me. There are soooo many different youtubes and blogs on what the correct amount of salt for the brine is. I've been working on my brine recipe for a bit and today I think I came up with one. Then you post this, and I'm like whoa! S&C uses a whole lot of salt! I guess I'll find out next weekend if my version works or not. The one soap batch I had to toss was my first attempt at a brine soap. That was last year sometime. Brine bars and shave bars have been my hardest soapy things so far. I think I finally conquered my shave bars today though. Which is good cause the hubby is getting tired of using my failed ones, which were usable, just not great. Aren't family member testers the best ever? LOL
This is all very cool! Half and half, will definitely give it a go. Thank you so much for sharing and I hope you have an awesome evening with your family. ❤️❤️
This soap came out beautifully!! I absolutely love when you work with these colors, they give off earthy vibes. Brine soaps are my favorite soap type, my skin loves them.
I cannot stand how beautiful these bars are! I love the look of the salt only being in the "sand" part. I make salt bars with the whole amt of salt in the batter for my poor itchy winter skin. I get a back scritch with all that salt in there ;)
Ah, yes yes yes! I love the cool pointy layers action you got there. Very cool, and a lovely bubble indeed. I put all the salt in the lye, but also the coffee grounds. So if I were to do this salted coffee thing (sigh, I do actually salt my coffee every morning so...) I'd strain out some of the grounds, but let that be my scrubby bits. Just my excitement coming out here- I'm quite thrilled to adjust a recipe I've been putting off because it seemed kinda "blah". Thank you so much!
This is great I did a bar a few weeks ago and I added the salt into an embed that I covered with regular cold process soap so it had a scrub n bubbles around it
This is brilliant! I never would have thought salt and coffee would work so well together. I will definitely have to try this one. Thank you so much for sharing so much with us. I've been making soap for 6 years and I'm really seeing how vanilla I've been, but I've been wanting to branch out and offer more variety. You are inspiring!
Thank you. That was very formative about the experience of he old wholesale account. To avoid something similar I am going to do the same. I have an idea for a mermaid soap this would work well with.
These are beautiful! Great idea to do 50% in the lye solution and 50% in the batter. What scent did you use? Also, if we use water instead of coffee, how much sugar should we add to the lye solution for a 3 lb. batch?
Hi have you ever made a magnesium brine soap bar? Can it be done ive searched this up and there's not much on it really. I stray magnesium oil brine on my legs and feet for sleep and menopausal reasons i was wondering if it could be added like in the water lye solution. I do know the flakes attract water but thats about it.
Yay, I’m early! One of my most treasured friends asked me to make him a loaf of CBD soap; have you ever dabbled in the cbd stuff world? It’s expensive and I don’t want to screw it up 😅
So I did this recipe and my salt wouldn’t dissolve in the lye solution. I use frozen water portions so I don’t have to wait as long for the lye solution to cool down and I don’t like to deal with the fumes in my tiny not ventilated at all little house. So did the salt not dissolve because it didn’t get super hot? I ended up giving up on the stirring after about 20 minutes and just dumped all of it into my oils. It turned out pretty good anyway except a bit crumbly around the edges when I cut it 11 hours later. But I’m still confused about why my salt didn’t dissolve? I made your type 2 shampoo bar last night and it had a couple big chunks of undissolved lye in the lye solution. ( I really thought it was just a really tenacious Aloe Vera ice cube) but when I stick blended it, it was like a rock in the bottom of my batter. Anyway, it looks lye heavy today when I cut it and you can see little oozy spots of lye in the bar. This is my first fail at soaping and I really want to figure out what went wrong. I really don’t have a clue. I triple checked my measurements as I still do since this was only my 9th batch of soap ever. And I put your recipe into soap calculator so I got all the right amounts. When I made my lye solution, the amounts were what they usually are for my batches just eyeballing it so I’m pretty sure my measurements were correct. I just can’t figure out what happened to my soap? I think I’ll have to throw it away. 😢
