Bath Melt Fail

I have been so busy today with housework and completing my batch notes so this post is really late (3 am~). Quite tired but really wanted to post about my bath and body ventures ^_^

So...my bath melts turned out kind of...alien :( I'm thinking that I added the dry ingredients whilst the cocoa butter was too hot. They started separating and expanding in the molds. Now a lot of the butter has oozed out and set on the top. Not pretty. I'll try again with a cooler temperature, see if that helps. Maybe a whisk would help too. The problem with taking the temperature lower is that I don't think I can get them as smooth. I got some amazing bath melts as a gift for Christmas last year. They looked so smooth and symmetrical. I really want to get the same look for mine. I'm still going to put one of them in the bath tomorrow, to test the ingredient percentages as the only problem I see so far is aesthetic.

All was not lost though this evening as I tried to cheer myself up with my first ever batch of massage bars. I also blended my own fragrance oil for them with some of the oils I have left from soaping and I'm pretty pleased with the scent, I think I'll call it Lily Fae. I just tried one of the bars on my hands and I decided I would like to make them melt a little sooner on skin contact. So I'm thinking adding some shea butter to start with and maybe increasing my soft oil percentage a little bit. The only butter I used for this batch was cocoa so I can see what butters and oils I like best.

So all in all not a bad day and lots of ideas ready for tomorrow. Oh and being so pleased with the massage bars I've ordered some new molds especially for them hehe. Some very cute hearts and flowers. While I was at it I ordered a new 1lb~ mold for my test soap batches yay excited! :D