It's Pumpkin Soap Time
Saturday October 24, 2009
Halloween is in just a week...which means there are pumpkins in all of the stores - including some really interesting white pumpkins. (Orange is evidently very "yesterday.") Which means Jack O'Lanterns and hanging pumpking lanterns. But what about the day after Halloween? One of my favorite post-Halloween projects is to make a batch of pumpkin soap - with real pumpkin puree. Pumpkin is high in vitamins A and C and zinc...which makes it good for your skin too! (But we know that all of our natural homemade soaps are good for our skin, even without the pumpkin!)
Comments
Why add the sugar to the water before the lye, and not separately at trace? What does sugar before lye do?
It’s just a different way of doing it. It should have the same ultimate chemical effect on the soap. Adding it at trace probably maximizes the amount of sugar available in the soap, as, like adding anything at trace does, minimizes the time it spends fighting with the lye.