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Hi there from a newbie, greetings to you all,
Has anybody tried making whipped cold process soap? I've seen it on Nizzy's site and it looks pretty good, although by all accounts its quite hard to get out of individual moulds and hard to cut if you make a log. I fancied making a soap that looks like an iced cake and want to 'ice' it with whipped soap. (my little indulgence in between making the serious stuff)

Oooooooooo, I've never tried it sue but it looks great- I've just done a quick search for it and the results look amazing! I'd never even heard of it before. I'd defo love to see some pics if you do have a go at it!

Hi Nickie, it does look rather lovely, may try some at the weekend using their recipe. What have you been making, do you do cold process or melt and pour?
I have unmoulded yesterdays honey and oatmeal soap creation. I put bubble wrap at the bottom of the mould so it look like honeycombe, didn't quite get the colour right. It ended up a pale peach and I wanted a lovely golden colour but it looks nice anyway. The honey has given it a nice fragrance and I just added a little orange oil to complement it. Anyway, I will let you know if I manage the whipped soap and how it comes out.

What a great idea about the bubble wrap- did it melt during the saphonification process though? Getting the colour right in melted oils is a pain isn't it as you can't see what the finished product will turn out like until it's set again! I've not made cold process soap yet or even melt and pour for that matter but I have made bath melts and hope to get around to some CP in the next few weeks when I finaly have a bit of time to myself! Yes, please let us know how you get on with the whipped CP, I'd really be interested to know if it works and how difficult it is etc!

Bubble wrap was still intact and did not melt although the honey does make the soap get very hot during saponification. I kept the fan blowing on the mould for quite some time. I've been into B&Q today and brought a drainpipe to use as a mould to make a loofah soap. Apparently, you can embed a loofah in the cold process soap in a drainpipe mould as long as the end is secured well. Will solve that problem once I can persuade my better half to get his saw out and cut it into sections. He has just recovered from laughing hystericaly at me and an eight foot drainpipe sticking out the car window. He gives me funny looks these days, I suppose he is wondering what I will do next!!!!!

LOL, I'm constantly getting funny looks off my OH and it has nothing to do with soap so count yourself lucky Sue lol! I remember watching a video on loofah soap on youtube a while back but not sure whether it was melt and poor or CP. I tried to get my OH to make me some wooden soap moulds and given that he's a cabinet maker by trade you'd think he'd be right onto it but alas, the wood is still sitting there 3 months later- just like my kitchen floor tiles that have now rested in the same place for 8 years now lol!

I know what you mean Nickie, I have pleaded with him to make me some wooden moulds, all I can say is thank god for Soap Kitchen. I've just ordered another of their ply wood moulds that slot together which are brill!! Could do with some a bit bigger but all the best ones are from America and the postage cost is quite prohibitive. I 'm sure there must be quite a market for wooden soap moulds - I did bid for a couple on ebay with no luck. Glad I don't want my kitchen floor tiled because I think I would be in the same boat as you LOL

I seen some wooden CD holder boxes in Sainsbury's just before Christmas which didn't have any inserts so were just plain boxes and would have been great for smaller sample size batches but when I went back to get them they'd sold out. I agree about the wooden soap moulds being popular and there's defo a market for them here in the UK but like everything else, it seems we're lagging behind the US and this kind of thing is hard to come by here! If I thought my OH would be up for it, I'd have him make a load and do some kind of trial selling them but he hasn't got the motivation to do it anymore so I'm on my own- as per usual lol!