Soap Advisor

The batches I made yesterday are doing great!  They are still foamy and haven’t shrunk at all.  There appears to be no color bleeding at all so far.

I made my 2nd formulation to improve lather.  It didn’t improve it all that much unfortunately.  I was looking for oodles of lather and got good lather still.

I thickened up the 2nd formulation and it looked fabulous!  Nice and thick before whipping.

Then I had this brilliant idea.  I’ll add some citric acid to lower the ph and finally we’ll all have a low ph soap!

Ut-oh.  It totally turned it to soup.  Apparently, if you thicken something with sodium cloride then you cannot stay thick when adding citric acid?  Who knew?  Everyone but me, apparently.  At least that is what I think is the conflict.  Could be something else, I dunno.  No more lowering the ph in this stuff regardless.

Now my way cool batch of whip soap is dish soap.

Sigh.

Gotta start over.

It is much stiffer now

Okay, I’m making some progress.

I got it to stiffen up some and I think this might work.  But I think my customers are going to want a lot more bubbles.  People just love oodles of lather.  This has just a nice lather.

I am re-writing the formula and changing out the detergent additives to another one to get oodles in the lather dept.

I still don’t see any signs of color bleeds.  Cool.  Really bleeding happens over a couple of days, so we’ll see on that.  So far, so good, though.

A New Parfait

Soap Whip Experiment

I’m playing around in the lab today trying to come up with one of those Soap Whip soap bases I’ve been hearing about.

I look forward to days like this, just playing around like I’m an actual chemist or something, which I’m not!

So far I’ve got a soap that whips and has a nice, thick lather but not bunches of bubbles.  It is really moisturizing on the skin, doesn’t leave you dry feeling at all.

I’m afraid it needs to be thicker and more stiff though.  I don’t think my whipped soap is going to stay whipped.  I’d like to see it a lot stiffer after whipping.  I think I’m going to have to tinker some more.

I’d hate to cut back on the Shea Butter I put into it.  We’ll see what I can do.

I’m testing it to see if our liquid colorants will bleed into each other if you layer it.

I have had only one disaster so far.  The mixer fell into the huge pot I’m using and it got soaked in foamy soap.  I dunno if it is going to be the same….

A Soap Whip Parfait