Paw Print Soap!

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Hey Reader,

This is the last of my bath projects for a while. I really need to get back to the walls eventually! I wanted to make some hand soaps for my powder room, and why not have them be puppy prints!

You know I have been obsessed with my new scents from P&J. Every time I talk to them I imagine Peter and Janet (I don't know if that is right, but go with me) having a child named Brad and changing their name to PB and J. I have my own fun.


Anyway, I did one minor bit of experimenting on this one. See, I only had a small amount of the
opaque soap mix left from my orange creamsicle soap. It was definitely not enough for a whole batch of puppy print soap. However, I did have one bar of that soap left. I wondered if I could harvest it and use it again. I can't smell the orange anymore. It probably isn't an ideal situation, but it worked for this.

I was again reminded to microwave your soap in 10 second increments. I definitely boiled over and it is quite difficult getting soap off the microwave tray. A lesson I hoped I wouldn't have to learn twice, but here we are.

By chance, I melted enough for exactly half of the paw print molds. So when I made a second batch I did the other P&J scent.

I used soap colorant from the craft store. It doesn't feel like it is as strong as food coloring is in bath bombs, but I also don't know how food coloring would react in soaps. I will stick to what I know for now.

When it was all done, I laid it out on a cute dish celebrating New Jersey and I think it looks great in the bathroom.

Y'all best keep making cool stuff!
Until next time,
JoshPrime

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