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Thursday, December 29, 2005

New Soap Scent Is Big Hit

My latest soap is a beer soap that is scented with Bay Rum fragrance oil. I'd post a picture of it but it has been such a big hit that I've sold completely out. I'm going to make up some more of it as soon as the holidays are over. In fact my stock is pretty low on everything so I'm really going to have to get my but in gear pretty soon. The holidays have been pretty good sales wise. But to get back to the beer soap, I used beer (Aspen edge) in place of the water in my soap. They say that the beer gives the soap a real creamy lather and it does! I wanted to have another soap for the guys in my line of soaps. It can be a little tricky making soap with beer. You have to boil it for awhile in order to get the alcohol cooked out of it (or the alcohol and carbonation will do some crazy things with it like volcano and you don't want that) and then you have to let it sit out for about 24 hours so it will go flat. I put it in the freezer to get kind of slushy and then I add my lye to it as usual. The bay rum fo and beer colors it to a light tan. It smells so nice and manly. I called it Sudsy Bud. I should have some more ready by the beginning of February. Just in time for Valentine's Day!

3 Comments:

At 11:10 PM, Blogger Pacific College Mom said...

Hello Lisa,
I hope you had a wonderful holiday and it was great to hear you had good sales.
Beer soap sounds really interesting. How long does your soap cure before it is ready? Might be fun to try!

Bye for now.
Ann Thompson

 
At 11:11 PM, Blogger Pacific College Mom said...

Hello Lisa,
I hope you had a wonderful holiday and it was great to hear you had good sales.
Beer soap sounds really interesting. How long does your soap cure before it is ready? Might be fun to try!

Bye for now.
Ann Thompson

 
At 8:11 AM, Blogger Lisa said...

It takes about 4 to 6 weeks to cure.

 

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