Soap Challenge #2

I am participating in the soap challenge again :)

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The challenge of this month is Winter Wonderland. You have to have cold processed soap with some kind of element of snow.


I wanted to participate in the all-natural category.

I didn't have any natural colourant that would make soap blue, so I used a very small amount of alkanet and hoped that it would somehow turn blue. But magic didn't happen, and it was purple (of course)...


So, I decided to go for the synthetic category.

I used a snow flake shaped mold as a base, a bear shaped mold and an iceberg shaped mold (you don't see much of iceberg but the bear is using it as a pillow), put them together, and created the theme of a polar bear enjoying a very cold snowy day.

The soap looks slightly crumbly because it's a salt bar. I thought salt would make it look icy, and it did :)


And... IT'S HERE!!! I think the polar bear looks very relaxed in the snow.

CHICHI Co. Product #2

I made shampoo!

I have tried to use handmade soap as a shampoo bar, and have tried to make liquid shampoo from liquid soap in the past.

Using regular soap as shampoo seems to work for many people, but not for me... the pH level was too high and my hair just got really really dry.

I wasn't sure what type my hair was, so I chose the recipe for normal hair.

And here it is!

I only made such a small amount because it's a test batch. Mmm... I think I needed a thickener.

Pineapple Body Butter

Recently, I have been reading the blog "Point of Interest!" written by Susan.

She is very informative, and everything I wanted to know is on her blog.

I picked her body butter recipe because that was the only thing I could make with the ingredients I already had.

I should be able to make other things if I had more knowledge about substituting the ingredients, but unfortunately, I don't... And I needed my first body care product to be a success in order to keep myself going :)

And... here!

The ingredients are:

-          Water 118g

-          Glycerin 6g

-          Sweet almond oil 30g

-          Shea butter 20g

-          E-wax 16g

-          Cetyl alcohol 6g

-          Geogard ultra 2g

-   Pineapple fragrant oil 2g

 
Yay:)