Born To Be Wild Swirled Soap, Music Inspired Series

I wanted to make a swirled soap that was inspired by this song. I had recently received a care package from Tina with new ingredients to add to our blog ingredient cupboard and some of these ingredients were the new colors that are upcoming additions to the catalog. I decided I wanted to use some of these colors because I thought they were perfect colors to represent Born To Be Wild.

After perusing my limited collection of fragrances, I decided that Apple Blossom Queen was the best fragrance because it smelled just like a perfume that I imagine Miss Piggy would wear. Fruity, floral, sassy and energetic are words that I use to describe this scent and for me it is a fit for Miss Piggy. What scent would you choose for Miss Piggy?

Let’s go play and make some soap!

Collect needed items:

Recipe:

*q.s. = Quantity Sufficient. This is an ingredient that needs to have the amount calculated to match the size of batch that you are making.

Making Soap:
Measure fixed oils on your scale. Warm the fixed oils on the stove or in the microwave. I melted the oils in a microwave. Add sodium hydroxide to the water. Mix well. At this point, I added the fragrance to the oils because I didn’t want to forget to add it.

Once the oils and lye solution temperatures have dropped to a lower temperature (my temperatures were around 120 degrees Fahrenheit), combine oils and lye solution. Mix until thin trace. Divide the soap into four parts. As I divided by visual pouring into the separate containers, my color batch sizes were varied. Add one color to each batch of raw soap and mix well starting from lightest to darkest to not have to clean the blender between colors.

This was the first swirl that I’ve done in soaps for over a year, so I was a little rusty and let my soap reach thick trace by stirring too much and moving slowly, which meant that I plopped it into the mold rather than poured it! I tried to use a drinking straw to create a swirl in the thick soap. Once the soap is in the mold, allow to sit until soap is firm. The next morning cut into bars. Stack to allow good air circulation. Allow to cure for several days before using. Longer curing will result in a harder bar.

Soap Notes: This soap had a light scent that was significantly stronger after the soap was wet. The lather was a combination of creamy lather and big bubbles. I like the feeling the soap left on my skin after washing my hands.

Kermit Unpigged Notes: This album was released in 1994. While the album reached #20 on Billboard’s Top Kid Audio chart, sales for the album were low. This was the last album produced by Jim Henson Records. Kermit Unpigged is an out-of-print album and sells for varying prices depending on the current market demands. At this time, there is not a digital version available for sale.

What do you think?