I Call It Apple Sauced...

I couldn't decide between Apple Sauced and Apple Saucy, but I wanted the name of the soap to be one that conveyed action more so than description (sauced meaning the act of saucing, and saucy merely describing the apple...yeah, yeah, yeah...) An-t-way, please meet Apple Sauced. This is another fall/limited edition soap that smells of....okay, give up? Well it aint apple sauce if that's what you were thinking! The core of this fragrance of course is apple. I bought Big Red Apple from Southern Soapers in their going out of business sale, but it didn't wow me. Frankly, apples don't wow me much at all unless you shove it on a stick, drench it in caramel or chocolate then roll them around in a bed of chopped peanuts (Mrs. Prindle anyone???) Okay, I digress, but what else is new? I wanted an autumn scent, so I blended it with a few drops of anise essential oil and about an oz of another apple blend that I wasn't crazy about either. But blended altogether, I like it-very mucho. I personally think I could have used more anise because I wanted a spicy kick to it, but I'm relatively pleased with the outcome.

These bars are not symmetrical. I seriously under-calculated my formula which puzzled me. Olive oil-check. Coconut oil-check. Palm (organic)-check. Castor oil-check. Shea butter-check. I ran out of soybean oil which explains why my mold was only about 3/4's full. Oh well. I had to quickly compensate for the shortage, so I stuck these balls on top to give it a lil more sumthin' sumthin'. Do you likey? I also wanted this soap to be as natural as possible, so I used French red clay for colorant. I added a heaping tablespoon directly to my lye mixture. This French clay is more of a brick/orange-ish color than red, so that's why it's not red. Overall, I think it's a winner. Now I need to make more soap balls and a matching limited edition scrub...