Carrots n Cream

This Carrots N Cream soap was to be my first batch of castile soap but I decided I'd want to use it sooner than later and so I modified the recipe. It is still mostly olive oil but I did add in some palm kernal oil, avocado oil, and castor oil. It's going to be so luxurious. The main liquid is from aloe juice. Now, I understand that the likelihood of any of the beneficial properties of the aloe coming through the saponification process is slim to none. It just so happens that I had a large jug of it needing to be used up. :-) I mixed the lye with aloe at just over half of the liquid amount. The remainder was made up at trace with pureed carrots and heavy cream. I left it unscented to add to the gentleness of the soap. It's going to be hard waiting for this one. I also used my new pink WSP mold for the first time. I debated what to do to prevent gel in these since my freezer isn't really set up for something of that size. So I came up with a plan and I'll let you know if it works or not.


Now the soap in the blue molds is my first batch of castile! I needed to make up some soap that could be later cubed and/or shredded for future batches. So I chose to go the easy route and did a castile. My olive oil is very light-colored so I think the colors will turn out great. They are a tad dull at the moment but I know they'll "pop" later. The pink is a combo of Celestial Colors and I more than likely over did it again! I bet it's going to be so, so bright! The other colors are pop micas. I love the pop micas. I've had no problems whatsoever with them except for the raspberry which is why I choose not to use it. I might be brave and try again soon though to just see what happens. I think my favorite of all the castile color bars will be the swirled one. So pretty!


Update:

The carrot soap is not gelling and is the color of butter right now. It's really pretty.


Pink and Orange:
I'm not sure that the pink is going bright on me this time and it doesn't look like the colorant dispursed very well. But I think it's still a nice color.


Green and Yellow:


Blue and Purple:
I couldn't get a good picture but the blue and purple are much brighter.


Swirl:
LOVE IT!