Making Soap

I enjoy making soap.  Several years ago I bought a book of recipes for soap in which you start with lye and about 8 different oils (emu oil, olive oil, castor oil, coconut oil, shea butter) and cook soap in a crock pot.  Chip and I made soap while I was in Vermont.  Here are a few pictures of our adventure.  We scented it with lavender, tea tree, and rosemary and colored it with only blue food coloring, but somehow it turned purple.  It was a complete success, the finished bars are sudsy and smell and feel great.

Chip, with all of the supplies, ready to begin at 7:45 pm.

Chip stirring in the food coloring after saponification.

Chip giving a thumbs up with the soap in the molds at 10:20 pm.

The soap, completed and ready to use, the next morning.