Soap and Candle-making: Carrot Soap

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Author Content stumpenursery Florence, AL December 26, 2007 08:33 PM Post #4329463 Has anyone ever used carrot juice to make CP soap? I have a recipe for carrot juice and buttermilk. This would be more like a facial soap, I think. kathy_ann Judsonia, AR (Zone 7b) December 26, 2007 08:42 PM Post #4329494 I have made a carrot patchouli soap before, I juiced the carrots, would be the only way I think to keep the bar from molding LOL anything like bits of veggies or herbs not dried that are sticking out of the bar of soap will mold. Had no trouble with carrot juice or grinding up cucumbers finely for soaps either. no mold , no other problems. I made cold process soap, but have made hot process using the juice also. stumpenursery Florence, AL December 26, 2007 08:47 PM Post #4329511 My recipe calls for using Neolli oil for fragrance, it's a sweet orange scent. kathy_ann Judsonia, AR (Zone 7b) December 26, 2007 08:52 PM Post #4329524 I love that stuff. Do you use alot of essential oils in your soaps? I have almost stopped using the citrus eo's inmysoaps, because the scent doesn't last at all. And find that I have to package my soaps completely sealed up so the scent lasts longer, cause if it's exposed for a length of time, the scent doesn't last. And I usually buy the good scents from tonysfragrance oils or oregontrailsoaps.com and I buy my eo's from camdengrey.com and a couple other places. Have you tried the nerolli oil before, (spelling). Does it last a while? kathy stumpenursery Florence, AL December 26, 2007 09:24 PM Post #4329633 I always let my soaps cool down alot before I add the citrus oils, that it doesn't burn up in the cool down. I get most of my oils from a local health food store,EO, the FO's I get from Brambleberry's, Soapcrafters I haven't used this scent before, Neolli, but you can mix it with alot of things, lemon, etc. We need to swap list of suppliers, always looking for a better buy. Pam kathy_ann Judsonia, AR (Zone 7b) December 26, 2007 10:13 PM Post #4329856 I've used brambleberry before also. found soapcrafters to be a little high dollar for me. It's been quite sometime since i've had to buy supplies, but most of my bulk oils come from well, the web site escapes me at the moment, columbia foods? or something like that, they have a huge line of vegetable oils for soapmaking. cheaper than any other web site i've found. I buy my lye locally 40# at a time, and split it with another soap maker. http://www.fromnaturewithlove.com is a neat web site. soaper1218 Gulf Breeze, FL October 21, 2008 02:05 PM Post #5699869 There is a carrot cake soap recipe at http://www.colebrothers.com/articles/soap.html . Just look for the link in the index of articles. Steve http://www.colebrothers.com/soap denimangle Oakwood (Butler,TX), TX (Zone 8b) April 12, 2009 09:30 PM Post #6401347 Steve & Kathy_ Ann Great links..Thanks Im Reading everything I can about making soap ... Im growing Luffas this year and hope to make Luffa Soap ... this fall. Might have to try some sooner Cheryl

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