{"id":5142,"date":"2011-03-12T19:26:04","date_gmt":"2011-03-13T01:26:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatcakessoapworks.com\/handmade-soap-blog\/?p=5142"},"modified":"2017-09-25T10:01:25","modified_gmt":"2017-09-25T16:01:25","slug":"mother-daughter-soap-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatcakessoapworks.com\/handmade-soap-blog\/index.php\/mother-daughter-soap-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother-Daughter Soap Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

My girls are on Spring Break, so yesterday I asked my older daughter, who is a fourth grader, if she would like to help me design a new soap. Here’s what she came up with:<\/p>\n

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Blueberry Muffin Soap Sketch<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Once we had a plan, I came up with the recipe which would require two batches of soap – one for the soap balls, and one for the rest of the soap. I had her do most of the measuring, starting with the oils:<\/p>\n

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Measuring oils for the Blueberry Muffin Soap<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Since we were making a small batch, I had her melt the solid oils in the microwave and stir them until they dissolved:<\/p>\n

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Stirring the warmed oils<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The next lesson was how to use a disposable pipette. It takes a bit of skill!!<\/p>\n

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Measuring out fragrance<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I mixed up the lye water on the first batch, and stirred it into the oils when the temps were right. Then I gave her some safety gear and prepped her to handle my monster of a stick blender. Because, really, isn’t that one of the best parts of making soap? <\/p>\n

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Stick blending the soap for blueberry soap balls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We used the microwave to hot process<\/a> this batch. After figuring out that I had left out the olive oil, I had to add it in and cook it some more. By then, a lot of the water had evaporated, so we had very crumbly soap. Finally after adding a bit of water back into it, the soap balls were a lot easier to form!<\/p>\n

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Making blueberry soap balls<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Silly girl!!<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Next, we made our second batch of soap, pulled out about a cup of soap that will remain white for the “frosting” on top, added fragrance to the main part of the soap, and colored it a light blue.<\/p>\n

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Stirring the color and fragrance into the second batch of soap<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We poured a small layer of plain, light blue soap in the bottom of the mold, then stirred in most of our blueberry soap balls and poured the rest of it in. We had to blend the white soap a bit more to get it to thicken up since we hadn’t added any fragrance to it. My daughter was very clear that the white part had to be textured. Then she put some of the extra blueberry soap balls on top.<\/p>\n

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Randomly placing soap balls on top<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

And of course, it had to have a sprinkling of glitter!<\/p>\n

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Adding the glitter on top<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

We’ve been waiting all day to cut the soap to see how it compares to her sketch. Ta da!<\/p>\n

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Blueberry Muffin Soap<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

My daughter’s comment as we were in the middle of making the first batch, “Mom, if you asked me if I wanted to make soap or something else, I would probably say, ‘something else’. Making soap is a lot of work!”<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> My younger daughter finally got in on the action too! You can see the results of her soap here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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