I'm visiting my sisters in NYC for spring break and decided to make a different kind of soap each day I'm here... So i'll be posting pictures real soon.
Yesterday we made a basic variation of Castile soap. We've never made soap before so we thought that if we made a basic soap with the least amount of toxic fumes and least complicated it'd be a success!!!
We did tons of research online and about.com seemed to have the best videos explaining the soap making process. But my sister also bought these amazing books on soap making by Anne L. Watson
While scavenging the city for supplies lye, organic olive oil, organic coconut oil, distilled water, and vinegar... lye is not sold in stores (or the ones we called in the city) so we had to buy it online. But everything else we got at the local grocery store.
Warning! Lye can be extremely dangerous if handled improperly... so Anne says don't make soap when you're drunk or angry. and check out this website: handling lye for more information.
So we made the Castile soap last night, one's cold processed and the other is CPOP Cold Process Oven Process. The difference is the curing time (or how long it takes for the soap to become soap and all ). With the simple Cold Process it takes 3-4 weeks to cure where as the cold process oven process you leave the soap in the oven for 2 hours at 170 degrees and leave it in the oven over night.
... off to more adventures in the city and then back to more soap making in the evening.
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