This week Ella and I referred back to the text messages we had between Rocky Mountain Soaps. The last few weeks we have been having trouble with the long lasting moisturizing so we added some honey and oats like they suggested in the text.
Month: December 2022
Genius Hour Week 7
Last week we added soap lotion into our soap in hopes to create a softer and more moisturizing soap. When testing the soap we did not feel or see much of a difference so this week we decided to add lotion and water because we noticed that the soap was also gritty.
Once we poured the soap into the molds and let it set we noticed that lots of bubbles appeared. To improve, the plan is to add coconut oil and to use a blow dryer to keep the soap hot while we add other ingredients.
Genius Hour Week 6
This week we took in the information that we saw from last week and tried to improve the soap. One of the things we did differently this time was we added lotion in hope to make the soap softer and more moisturizing.
After we let the soap set, Ella tested the soap just like the previous week and she didn’t notice much of a difference so for next week we will research more moisturizing ingredients to add.
Genius Hour Week 5
Over the weekend Ella and I went to Rocky Mountain Soaps, we bought 4 different soaps in hope to compare them with the ones we made.
We bought lemongrass, lavender, pumpkin and cedar wood & fir.
This is what the soap base looks like before we put it into the microwave.
After putting the soap in the microwave for a few seconds at a time it became liquid. Once we mixed in the scent and color we realized that the soap base hardens very fast. We noticed this when we were making our fist soap and recognized that for the upcoming soaps we would have to work a lot faster in order to put the soap in the mold before it solidified.
This is what the soaps looked like after it set and we packaged them.
This is the side to side comparison of our lavender (the bottom one) and the Rocky Mountain Soaps (the top one).