More Fun in the Kitchen

After talking to @bluefinstudios about product names a few weeks ago, I've been excited about making a male fragrance soap. I've been waiting for a pretty blue mica to arrive so I could colour it. It came the other day so I immediately started to cook up a batch.

First measuring out the tallow I had rendered previously.

Then adding cocoa butter, coconut oil, olive oil, and a little canola oil to the pan and melting it all together over a low heat.
I made up this recipe after try many others and not liking how they felt on my skin. After a few failed attempts I have come up with a recipe I am really happy with.
I love this blend of oils and will never buy soap from the supermarket again.

I measured out 150mls of water and adding the lye to it carefully.
When making soap you should really use a lye calculator to make sure you add the right amount of water and lye.
This mixture gets very hot so you need to be careful, you need to wear gloves just in case you splash, and you should do it in a ventilated space as the lye gives off fumes which you don't want to breath in.

Once the oils are melted, let both mixtures cool to the same temperature, between 100 and 115 F.
Add the lye mixture to the oils, add fragrance and whiz it up together.
At this stage I added the blue mica mixed in a little almond oil to the whole batch then poured about 3/4 of the batch in to a mold. I then added more blue mica to the remaining mix and swirled it hoping to get a cool effect. I poured that part on top of the first colour then added a little more mica to the top and swirled again.

Sorry I got too engrossed in what I was doing to take pictures of the whole process.

Here is the new BlueFin Men's Soap ....

I liked how it looked when it came out. The swirls kinda look like waves....

My daughter is here at the moment and she helped me cut the bars this morning..... She says that it smells amazing and wants it for herself.

Now I have to wait for ages for it to cure but I am happy with the finished product.

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