The Tale of Two Sisters Soap

Green Apple Handmade Goat Milk Soap

The Tale of Two Sisters Soap

A few weeks ago, my Aunt Barbara asked if I could make some Green Apple soap. Barbara is my Mama's youngest sister. Mama was 16 years old when Barbara was born.  Barbara came to live with us when she was just a young girl.  So she is more like a sister to me.  

Barbara said that Mama would buy Green Apple body oil for her in the 70's, and that she would love to have some "happy flashbacks" of childhood if I could make some green apple scented soap. So, I set out on a mission to find a green apple fragrance oil that behaves well in cold process goat milk soap. I found one, ordered it, and received it last week.  Oh, my! Talk about smelling DELICIOUSSIPPI!!! We decided to go with green, orange and white for the colours.  Green is my aunt's favourite colour, and anybody who knew my Mama (aka da Granny/Granny Gumbo) more than likely knows her favourite colour was orange.

This soap behaved beautifully during the whole process.  Since this was my first time to do the chopstick swirl, I could hardly sleep that night because I was so eager to unmold and cut the loaf to see what the design would look like!  Here are the results:

I sent this photo to Barbara.  She is VERY happy with it and can hardly wait to smell it.  She claims that she's not sharing this soap with anyone!  So, it remains to be seen if this one will be available in my soap shop next month.