In non-Maked crafting related news (i.e. personal crafting) - my boyfriend and I did our first batch of cold-process soap making over the weekend! I lured him into the world of crafting by explaining the dangers of working with sodium hydroxide (lye). ;) I also sold him on the idea with this little factoid: "Commercial soap manufacturing takes out the glycerin (moisturizer) from the soap and sells it to cosmetics manufacturers for more profit." That's pretty uncool.
So - we gathered together the ingredients. It was really tough tracking down the lye but we found a place in Richmond, BC that carried it. Finally, last weekend we had everything we needed and enough time to get into it. It was super easy.
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We popped the soap out of the mold the other night and sliced it up... it looks okay so far but it has to cure for another 4 weeks before we know if we've been successful or not.
Really, it's already been a success because the boyfriend wants to do another batch, something fancier this time with scents and additives. =)
Really, it's already been a success because the boyfriend wants to do another batch, something fancier this time with scents and additives. =)
For anyone who is interested, there are lots of instructions out there - we followed this set at Orthogonal Thought.
3 comments:
How cool! Your photos make this look super fun. I want to try this--thanks for the link! :)
It actually was quite fun - you have to be careful around the lye but otherwise it's easy!
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