Genius Hour Update

Before During After

Above are images Devan and I took while making our soap. We thought that if we added some heat to them that the bubbles would not be visible but it didn’t work as well as we hoped. Next time we might heat the soaps up before they harden and create bumps.

We looked back at previous messages with Rocky Mountain Soaps and they had told us that adding oats and honey will improve our soap textures and make them more organic based.

These are the suggested products we used.

We think that making these improvments will help compare to the professional soaps we picked up before-hand.

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This is what the soap looked like when I first put it in the mold. Because I added water in it and I noticed that it turned out very bubbly on the top.

We took the first photo about an hour (10:30) later thinking that the soap might settle, but I was suprised that it didn’t. The second photo was taken this morning at 7:00. Next time if we decide to use water again, we might use heat products to seperate the particles. We also realized that adding liquid such as water, caused the soap to take longer to harden. Although, It did make the soap easier to use and diluted the scent of the cinnamon, which I only used ground cinnamon this time instead of adding the sticks.

These are all of the ingrediants I used to add texture and scent to the soap.

My hands were much more soft after using the soap than previous times due to dillution and the moisture of the lotion.

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This week, Devan and I decided to make a mystery soap. I challenge you guess what scent this is.

Here are your options: lavender, pumpkin, sage citrus and mint.

Scroll down to see the answer once you have guessed.

Did you get it right?

I washed my hands with the soap, just like last time. When we made it, we added some lotion to see if it made the soap softer and our hands less dry after using it.

I think it made an improvement but next time we might research some things that you can add to it to make it more skin friendly.

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Last week we bought some soap bars from Rocky Mountain Soaps, so that we would have them for reference.

We began to make our soap base and added it to a microwaveable bowl.

When we took it out, we realized that the solution hardens really quickly and needed to be placed back into the microwave before adding scent and colour into it.

These are just some of the soap bars we made and poured into the mold to let harden. I was surprised that it took its shape so fast. Because of this, the cinnamon sticks were not able to sit inside of the soap bar.

After they cured, Devan and I put each of them in small ziploc bags.

Washing my hands with the store bought soap

When I washed my hands with our soap, I realized that afterwards my hands felt dry. Next time I will try adding lotion to the soap to see if that helps.