My first rebatched soap experience

With the help of my assistant, we grated four bars (18oz) of ivory soap. Ten bars of ivory came to less than $5 at Shoppers Grocery Store. An 8.45oz bottle of almond oil was less than $7.

Meanwhile, the crock pot (from the local thrift shop for $7) heated up. I read that dishes used for soap making should not be used for food. I liked the crock pot method idea, so decided to see if I could find a small pot just for this activity, but I wanted to stick to a budget. It was a bit of a risk buying an untested appliance, but it's working thus far.  

First, I added about 6 drops of almond oil to the crock pot because I saw this done on http://www.wikihow.com%20rebatch-soap-(almond-oil-method)/ 

Second, I added the soap shavings into the crock pot with 2 tbs of water, and set the timer to 1 hour and the crock pot on low.

Now I need to figure out what to add to the soap after it melts. I'm thinking some sort of moisturizer and maybe oatmeal.

One hour in the crock pot, and I stirred soap, which was starting to melt some. The stirring caused it to sink down considrably and it appeared to me that I could fit more into the pot. So I added another bar (about 4.5 oz)  and 1 tbs of water to the pot. This brought the total to: 22.5oz ivory soap and 3tbs of water.

 I probably added a couple more tbs of water before adding the oil mix. I decided to add 1tsp almond oil, 1/2 tsp olive oil, 1/2 tsp safflower oil, and about 1/4cup of oat bran and a couple shakes of lavender herbs.

Then I glopped it all into my bread tin, which was lined in wax paper, and used another sheet of wax paper to press the top down. I guess you can call this the cold press method, but I'm not really sure that's what I actually did.

After this I stuck it in the fridge over night and let it set.

The soap rebatching resulted in ivory soap with oats in it. It still smells like ivory soap.

first batch is on the bottom
second batch on top

A couple days later I rebatched 5 bars of ivory with two bars of plain Lever 2000.  I also added goats milk to the crock pot instead of water. Then I added safflower and almond oil, as well as lavender herb. Finally, I tossed in some dried peony flower petals...and they turned green and brown. So it looks like I made sea weed soap, but it's not sea weed. This soap smells like ivory too. Oh well, it's been fun. I'll ty again when we run out of this stuff.