Surprise! It is Pink!

As many of you know every year at Christmas I make soap. Some years the soap turns out better than others. This year we added Shea Butter which required a whole new recipe. The soap this year is 40% olive oil, 30% coconut oil, 20% palm oil, and 10% Shea butter. We chose to do a spicy scent of clove and cinnamon oil. To dress it up we decided to add some green shimmer to make it festive. So we set out to mix our oils and lye.

The shimmer is where things got interesting. We poured the soap into our molds and let is sit for 24 hours. It was then when we removed the molds that we got a surprise. There was no green to be had! The shimmer triggered some sort of chemical reaction with the oils that turned the soap pink. Yes, pink!

I always test my soap on myself first and the soap is safe to use, so I went ahead and cut and trimmed the soap. 2012 the year of the pink soap! Hope folks enjoy it.