Flowers of our garden - bastille style collagen soap
On a beautiful April day, I went out to the garden and started picking some flowers that were just opening or growing nicely. Lemongrass, dandelion, violet, daisies, red dead-nettle, and ribwort plantain, I put them in a glass jar, added olive oil, and waited. So many plants required a lot of olive oil, so I obviously planned a bastille-type soap with it. Coconut oil, lard, and castor oil were added after the infusion had had time to steep. Montmorillonite green clay was added for the greenish color and better touch, and whey and experimentally hydrolyzed bovine collagen for care. The scent is Green clover and aloe, because it's such a good green scent. I also supported the color a little with cosmetic pigment so that the end result wouldn't be a gooseshit green. I don't expect a special effect from so many flowers, for that I would need a mono solution in the same amount. Just as the role of collagen has been controversial in the past, especially in cleansing products, it has become a pleasant, traditional, romantic soap. The second image is a #nofilter sunburnt style :)2025. május 17.
Kertünk virágai - bastille stílusú kollagénes szappan
Lavender luxury sószappan - repesztéses technika
Lavender luxury salt soap - cracking technique
Salt soaps obviously have to be made in individual molds, the block doesn't work. I also like to put salt-free mass on the bottom of individual molds, because sometimes fate plays tricks on me and the soap comes out with an ugly crumbly surface, or it doesn't come out of the patterned molds. What happened now is that it was probably a very warm and stiff mass. Fragrance oil, alignment of stars, I don't know, that's how it turned out. When I took them out of the mold, I saw that the stiff, coconut-heavy mass cracked, I suspect thermal expansion also played a role in this. But it's still beautiful and fragrant. By the way, it was made on request, the salt and the chosen scent were specified, and the color was given :) It's mostly a coconut base, made with 10% castor oil, and whey.