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Foam-o Talks: Some In-Sisal Information


We've got some inside (or in-sisal) information on some sisal bags for you guys...

Soap is a necessity – well, if you want your friends to keep speaking to you anyway. The main question is how to store and use it well, you may be asking how *I* do it (or maybe not, I am only a young soap oracle). My most successful way of making sure my Foam-O soap lasts longer and looks good too, is by using a sisal bag. I wasn’t really sure what one was a few months ago, as back then I was still using liquid soap with all its not ideal plastic packaging and nasty chemicals – but my very small, but very environmentally focussed brain has done some serious research, both reading and experimenting. I love my sisal, at the moment it has my I Wash My Hands With You soap in, so has got one seriously psychedelic green tinge, but I’ve also used my Happily Heather After heather soap, and my Life’s a Beach one too. All worked, and all lasted for ages! They do tend to go a bit gooey because of the heat and water in the shower, but in the bag that goo is kept quite safe.

The bags themselves last for as long as you would like, dependant on how nice you are to them, mine looks as good as when I first put soap in, at least 4 moons ago! I’ve also been handing out some to friends and Foam-O All Stars (you know who you are) to see how they were – and all I’ve had is glowing reports, and similar goo experiences! Although, I do remember buying goo from Lush on purpose a while back, so perhaps bar to goo experiences aren’t too novel after all. I’m hoping to be able to sell them soon at markets as I have a stock building up, and fingers crossed, on the website too. So keep your eyes peeled for that!

If you’re a crafty person who loves soaps and crochet, there is always the opportunity to try and make your own sisal bag (or bags, how many bathrooms do you have??), my sister’s boss does this, and then I suppose you can 100% be saving the planet by using British wool from a local wool shop and pairing it with British soap like any Foam-O stock! I’m rubbish at knitting and crochet, but I can certainly help you out on the soap side of things.

Here's a photo of one of the sisal bags we stock, made to look amazing by our photographer, although once it's damp it does look a bit more sad - but colourful, so colourful!!

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That’s all well and good, but how do you make it?

A soaper never gives away her secrets, but she might tease her blog readers with some of her fancy ways of soaping…

Making the soap can be broken down into a few simple steps, which I will tell you – minus all the measures and ingredients precisely.

  1. We measure out the correct amount of oils (we use rapeseed oil, olive oil and vegetable oil
  2. We add it to our massive pan, kind of like the one you’d serve 50 kids a school dinner in
  3. We measure out the correct amount of lye, which is a mix of sodium hydroxide and pure water that we do the day before – it gets to be extremely hot so we have to leave it before using it!
  4. Into the massive pan!
  5. We then mix it with a huge blender, affectionately known as Brenda the Blender, until it reaches a stage called ‘trace’. This stage is at the point that you can remove the blender and the mixture that drops hits the surface and stays
  6. At this point, my dad and I end up becoming like very clean witches, stirring in colours and scents to make your Foam-o soaps perfect
  7. Out of the massive pan, and into a massive mould instead – each one is about 80cm long and 6cm wide
  8. It’s left to harden in our lovely garden shed for a few days, before we unmould it and cut it up
  9. Now it has to be left for 6 weeks (such a long time!!) for the curing process to occur, which means a lot of water evaporates and all the mixtures get ‘aged’ slightly
  10. Fast forward 6 weeks, and we’re boxing it up for someone like you to receive in the post!

That is the 10 fast steps to making cold process soap, the Foam-o way.

Everyone has their own soaping methods, but after a lot of trial and only a bit of error, this has been the method that has been working for us.

I hope none of you lovely readers go and try and make your own Life’s a Beach, or My Great Auntie Septic – they’re as secret as that Krusty Krab secret formula

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