Soapmaking attempt #2

Well, crayon attempt #1 was not as successful as I'd have hoped. Though it was good soap, it didn't draw very visibly on the tub. The wonderful thing about soap though, is you can remelt it and try again! For attempt #2 I added more of the soap dye I had, but it just wasn't concentrated enough, so I tried some Wilton icing coloring (food coloring but highly concentrated) and boom it did the trick!!! These crayons are RED! We'll give a crayon the official bathtub test this evening, but I was already able to draw on the sink with what little soap had congealed on the spoon I was using, and it should do quite nicely! Another bonus with using the food coloring is I have 8 colors of coloring, so I can make a wider variety of crayons without having to mix colors together. Hooray!

Soapmaking attempt #1!

As it is now officially Christmas season, I am getting started on making gifts! I decided some time ago I wanted to try my hand at soapmaking, and bought supplies at Hobby Lobby a few weeks ago, but am just now trying it out. I have been wanting to find soap crayons for Wyatt for bathtime, he has some bath crayons but they're not soap, just very soft wax, and he likes to eat them... great... So I was looking online for actual soap crayons, but one of the first hits to come up was a recipe to make your own! Woohoo!!! And luck have it, I had all the ingredients I needed for it! So right now I have six red crayons hardening, I wanted to start off with just a small batch, so we'll see how they turn out and how well they draw. The soap base I bought is clear glycerin, but I think opaque white soap would have worked better for the crayons. Other than the glycerin, I just added some vitamin E oil for moisturizing, and the coloring (you can use food coloring, but I happened to have found soap dyes at Hobby Lobby so I got those, either way they're non toxic). For molds, I am using ice trays that I bought for freezing breastmilk, but they are horribly

designed for it (even though designed for it), they leak and the cover is not airtight, which doesn't bode well for breastmilk... Anyways, they do make perfect crayon molds, they're half circles, long and a little under an inch wide, good for little hands! And if you read this, and your kiddo gets some as a gift, be sure to act surprised!!! ;D