The Fourth Batch
Starring Ucuubu butter and Prcaxi oil
It looks like caramel. It smells like mint. It feels like something you don’t mind touching your skin.
There are three ways to approach a project:
Ask a question and look for the answer
Decide on a goal and walk to toward the goal
Gunnit an Runnit.
The Fourth Batch of G&R soap. It contains Pracaxi oil, Ucuubu butter and Cupuacu butter and is scented with Oregon peppermint essential oil, it’s a festively bubbly and conditioning. This is our favorite G &R soap so far.
A history of the G&R batches.
The First Batch seized and was the color of a viral infection. That Tamanu Oil does not make things pretty. I had added the oil to the lye when the oil was too hot.
The Second Batch did the whole false trace thing with a flood of fat on the surface. I panicked, added a bunch of clay, and made the whole batch even weirder. I love it like it’s the child no one can look in the eye.
The third batch was a simple Pracaxi oil soap with cupuacu butter and coconut oil. It’s unscented and creamy. It has bubbles and soda ash.
We’ve yet to break into the fifth batch, which was poured into a plastic mold. It’s unmolding was neither gentle or wise and we will have to put it in the reject pile along with the beloved Second Batch, which is the least attractive soap in the world.
The Sixth Batch is its own animal. It’s a lighter tawny than the others and it set up super well. The lye ratio in the batter was 3:1 and getting it to trace took a bit longer. The PH level needs to be tested, but it’s a nice feeling soap that included a lot of variables such a cucumber oil. We went light on the Ucuubu butter to see how that would have an effect of the soap’s longevity.
The next round of soap will depend on how The Six Batch comes out. Ucuubu Butter, a butter that was initially kinda hated, seems to be standing out as a super star ingredient.
