Soaps or cakes?

If you are my regular reader, you surely have noticed that my writing focus has transferred from soaps to toiletries. It's not that I didn't make any soap meantime, I just had no time to present them timely. Now, that they are almost or fully cured, it's a high time to make it to the blog.
So, without further ado, we're starting:

CHOCO-AMARETTO

This is the third choco soap I've made. The thing with this soap is that chocolate fans just can't have enough of it. Varying the amount of chocolate and amaretto fragrances, the first two versions were equally good sellers, so I'm expecting this one to be,too. 

What really makes a difference with this one is real chocolate. Unlike the first two, this one has real, dark chocolate,as an additive. 

Why would anyone add cholocate into soap? Well, I wouldn't have either, if it hadn't been that fun challenge.

But, let me leave it for later.

So, except chocolate, which is incorporated into the whole batch, this soap consists of the other two choco things- milk (goat's) and cocoa butter. 

The colours are cocoa powder, oxides and clays.

Here is the actaul version:

sweet, sweet soap

Sunbathing

Working with chocolate, in sense of soapmaking, has the same approach as working with other, high sugar content ingredients. You have to be too darn careful with the heat it will develop for sure.

As we a had severe, cold winter, this baby slept overnight at the balcony. And it did it well.

The soap is fully cured and listed at the shop

Состав: Sodium Olivate, Sodium Cocoate, Sodium Palmate, Sodium Castorate, Sodium Cocoa Butterate, goat's milk,  dark chocolate, clays, cocoa powder,pigments, glycerin, silk fibres, frnagrance

SUNDAE SOAP

Now, even sweeter soap. 

As I mentioned above, restocking Choco soap coincided with the special challenge which I took part into. The challenge was to create Sundae soap, using specified ingredients. The things I was supposed to use were, as unusual, as tricky: strawberry, chocolate and ice-cream- all three very real,lol. And overall, I had to use a specific tool- a spoon! 

ice-cream, forest strawberries and chocolate

So, the first day I made my Choco-Amaretto soap and took a part of the batch away for the challenge soap. The second day, I made piping and topping part. 

Sundae soap

Sorry, I don't have phases pictures, but I'll explain.

The bowl was made first. The next day I used a spoon to make a cavity in it and to fill it with the other batch. Once again, I used the spoon for the scoops and then piping tools to decorate it. Melting topping is m&p. The chocolate stick is real chocolate.

Then, I finished up with the excessive inner part of my 'bowl'. I wasn't hesitating a moment. I hand shaped it into another, small bowl. As I had enough soap to fill it, I actually got two sundae soaps.

And for the better perspective:

tiny sundae

both sundaes together

It's always fun participating in challenges , they usually push you to doing things you normally wouldn't do. 

Sometime, things go smooth and easy, the other time you have to repeat the process, but both make you go further and better than you have thought you could.

Hope you've liked the soaps! I have more to show you, and hopefully, soon enough to keep you interested!

Thanks for reading and all Orthodox Christians, have a wonderful Easter Sunday!