I don't know if you've ever looked, but Etsy has an incredible array of hand-made soaps in just about any scent you can imagine. As part of my attempts to green our home, I decided "how hard can it be" and gave it my best try.
Stopping at the local Hobby Lobby, I picked up a bag of pure glycerin soap that was ready to be melted down, scented, and poured into molds. Simple enough, right?
So I get home with my new goodies, start melting soap bricks with wild abandon, and realize I don't have anything to scent them with. Remember, this was early in my green efforts, so we didn't have the variety of fragrant plants yet. Looking around the Easy Being Green Research Lab (our kitchen), I found some flavored green tea. Yeah, that's the ticket! Tea has all sorts of antioxidants and stuff and it smells good! This is gonna be great!
Now that I have this pot full of molten glycerin soap and tea leaves, it dawns on me that I also did not pick up any cute molds that I could pour my new soap into. So there I was again, running around trying to find something, anything that I could pour this soap into! Finally, I came across an empty ice cube tray. It was about the right size and shape for soap. No sharp edges, nice and thick, this should work just fine.
My first batch was poured, cooled, and tested. My beautiful assistant (guinea pig) April tested them for effectiveness, attractiveness, and fragrance. All my samples came back with low marks. It was decent enough soap, but it was weird washing her hands with an ice cube, and it didn't have any particular scent. I made three other batches with varying ingredients (different teas, oils, added glycerin, etc) and they all came back negative.
Despite my rather glaring...oversights I must admit that I did enjoy making soap. But next time, I think I may leave it for the experts.
Be good,
-David
Easy Being Gren
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