Sustainability part 2

Making soap in small batches helps me have no waste.

I love cooking shows, but you know when someone is on a cooking show and they don’t scrape out that bowl to put all the ingredients into whatever they are making? That really bugs me! I’ll be talking to the screen saying “ you left a whole other cupcake in that bowl!”

And when a batch doesn’t turn out, I can make it into something else! I love the versatility of it all and no stress in a way. “Well if this doesn’t come out… I’ll turn it into something else.”

I use the scraps of all my soaps in a bar that I make. I use the last of the 50/50 lye water that I made up, and the last of the oils, and fragrances that I want to try out. This picture is from my latest batch. I usually only sell it at markets and not online, because it’s different everytime. I used different fragrances to try out and sometimes I will try different colorants to see how they work with the fragrances, etc.

When I was making this last batch, I tried to put as much scraps as I could. Turns out I over loaded the mold and almost had a huge mess when I was taping it down to get any air bubbles out. The mold opened on one side and started coming out. Luckily I was able to save it and had extra clean molds on hand to put in there.

“Soap batter ready for my soap scraps”

“Soap batter ready for the mold”

My “everything” bar of soap.