White Soap Base 1kg

01 · WHITE OR CLEAR

What shows and what does not

On a white base, a pigment gives a flat colour, like a shop bar, and whatever solids you add stay hidden except the ones breaking the surface.

On clear, the same pigment gives a stained-glass effect and the pollen or petals show suspended. If your idea is to show the hive product, the clear one is the other we carry; if it is a solid-colour soap, this one.

White also has a practical advantage in production: it forgives. A bubble, a lump or a layer that did not come out perfectly does not show, and across a batch of twenty bars that is time.

02 · NO LYE

Which is why it suits a workshop

It is an already-saponified base: you melt it in a water bath between 60 and 70 °C, add whatever you want and pour. No caustic soda is handled at any point.

That is what makes it suitable for workshops — with children, supervised — and for anyone starting without setting up a laboratory. The kilo gives ten or twelve bars of 80-100 g.

03 · WHAT YOU CAN ADD

And how much

The base takes hive products without losing stability, but each one has its limit:

And the move that never fails: spray alcohol over the freshly poured surface. It pops the bubbles and, if you work in layers, welds the next one on.

One last habit: glycerine soap is hygroscopic, so wrap it in film as soon as you unmould. Left in the air it ends up beaded with drops in a couple of days.

04 · BEFORE YOU BUY

This is the kilo of base: