Last cold-press soap experiment for a bit, I think — it’s feeling like time to switch to other projects for the summer.
But experiment #4 was just fascinating — you take silk threads, and when you put them in water and add lye, the heat of the chemical reaction dissolves the threads. According to the recipe, it makes for an extra silky soap — cool, huh?
The rest of the soap is a buttermilk honeycomb — I didn’t have buttermilk on hand, but I did have cream, so it was easy to whip the cream and produce a sufficiency of buttermilk + butter (and then I had butter to make herb butters for eating, bonus!).
She does a funny thing where you cut up bubble wrap and put it into a soap mold to make honeycomb-looking soap. We’ll see how it comes out — I can’t un-mold it until tomorrow, alas!
But I think the oils should make for a nice blend — coconut oil, olive oil, sunflower oil, avocado oil, canola oil. Add in buttermilk, honey, and silk, and it sounds pretty luxurious. 
Scented with honey & wild orange.
Recipe from Anne-Marie Faiola’s _Pure Soapmaking_.
