Desigual

Dear all,

The challenge for this month has been as usual, a very challenging one. I never imagined that with curls we could get such beautiful soaps.

The soap I am showing you is made with cold process and it is called DESIGUAL Do you know what Desigual is? Desigual is a very well known clothes designer from Barcelona, my home town.
https://www.desigual.com/de_DE/

I love how this turned. I used the following mica colours by Nurture soap:

• enchantment green, 
• really red mica, S
• ky blue mica 
• and rise and shine yellow mica.
• white colour I used Icicle by UMU and some white mica by Brambleberry.

Fragrance oil: Babilicious by Gracefruit
Recipe:

• 40% Olive oil
• 30% coconut oil
• 25% Shea butter
• 5% castor oil
• superfat: 7%
• Lye concentration:33%

Below, you will see some pictures of the curls I made:

I also tried this same soap with a transparent background. For this, made transparent soap in CP following Harriet Preztch´s procedure:

https://naturseifenland.de/transparenseife-cp/

Amanda Aaron from Lovin Soap has also tried this process with different oils. I have taken one of her recipes on her blog (batch No. 5). 

https://www.lovinsoap.com/2019/03/clear-transparent-soap-from-scratch-quick-method/

The resulting soap is this one:

I made the exact quantity for a total soap of 500g. 

Stearic Acid: 30g

coconut oil: 70g

Water: 34 g

NAOH: 17g

200g Glyerine

100g Everclear

100g (instead of 200g) of sorbytol solution (70g sorbytoll and 30g water)

First of all, I prepared everything. See below:

Secondly, I melted the oils (Stearic acid and coconut oil) and poured the lye through a strainer.

Immediately after, I poured the glycerine and everclear and blended until it was clear with the stir blender. Finally, I added the sorbytol solution and it was ready. See below the video how I am pouring the transparent sopa in the dividor.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nlLxn7F6wWI&feature=youtu.be&fbclid=IwAR3qe07OgSnx8oDCjRtXSbWlQwloiWfguc_JlmrHmD8rw6YSWjUV2oy7E4M

I hope you all like this short description of the procedure for transparent soap. 

Here you are other attemps I made with CP & TS for this challenge:

Wishing you all of the best of luck in the challenge this month.