Ginger Root
Apricot Seed Powder
Almond Meal
I love using exfoliants because they vary the texture and look of soap. Plus, exfoliating helps to expose new skin and new skin is pink, dewy and fresh looking. Who doesn’t like line-free, fresh skin?
I start at 1 tsp of exfoliants per pound of soap (melt and pour or cold process). You can always add more but you can’t take it out. So, be prudent and conservative on your addition rate.
I can think of a bunch of yummy theme soaps using these exfoliants – Ginger with the Orange Ginger fragrance. Almond Meal with our Almond Biscotti Fragrance. Apricot Seed Powder with Summer Fling. Yum!
Hi Dad –
Glad to see you’re a fan of the blog. Maybe mentioning to my readers that all of my soap experiments are not immediate successes should be kept to a minimum? Just a thought…. After all, I do purport to be the Soap Queen, which implies perfection in all things soapy related.
But I digress, the Buddha bar which you are so disparaging is made with Apricot Seed Powder. I blogged about it, in fact:
http://soap-queen.blogspot.com/2007/05/wasabi-soap.html
Looking at the photo, yes, there does appear to be a fair amount of apricot seed powder in there – for visual effect of course. You must admit, the photo does look cool. It is kind of you to remind readers however, that scratchy things should be kept to a prudent minimum in soap to ensure the users comfort.
In the future, I’ll try my utmost to give you only bars of soap that are lotion-like in quality for your obviously delicate skin. Perhaps at your advanced age, your skin is getting more sensitive?
Love,
Your daughter
CEO, Bramble Berry Inc.
Be careful with those exfoliants!
I am using a bar, now, a black colored soap cast in the shape of a Buddha – a gift from Anne-Marie –(now you know where all the bizarre experiments end up) that incorporates some sort of fine grade corundum that seeks to exfoliate my skin right off. This is the SECOND time my skin is put at jeopardy by the inappropriate exfoliants provided by Brambleberry’s CEO. One wonders who raised her.
R. Faiola, MD
(Father of said CEO)