Thread: The atom bomb homemade

I just wanted to show a few pictures of my new soap. I have been experimenting with soapmaking for quite awhile. I finally came up with a formula that I think is good. This soap makes tons of lather (more than C. O. Bigelow/Proraso) and leaves my sensitive skin feeling good all day. I have had success on the lather formation for some time but conditioning was less than satisfactory. This formula contains a great blend of moisturizers to make my skin hydrated and fresh. I have also added essential oils known to prevent skin cancer in addition to providing a great scent. I am pretty happy with this formula but I will continue to improve it. You can see in the last picture why I call it the atom bomb. There is no glycerin added to build the lather and it is not uberlather. When I am done shaving, I have to milk the soap out of the brush. Also, I forgot to take a picture of the bowl at the end, it still had more than half of the soap unused ;-). I hope that you like the pictures.

Al raz.

Looks pretty nice! Must feel pretty cool to be off the consumer grid making your own stuff!

If you want someone to test it you can always pm me looks good

Wanna post the recipe? And what process did you use?

wow man that is some lather!!!!!!!!!!!

Im always curious of the scent when seeing pictures like this. hmmm

Thank you all for your comments.

Originally Posted by climberslacker

If you want someone to test it you can always pm me looks good

There will be time for sampling in the future, and believe me, when the time comes, I will remember your offer. Right now, I am interested in improving the formula. There are a couple of minor issues that need to be worked out. For instance, I am not happy with leaving half of the soap unused at the bottom of the bowl every time I shave and this could be easily corrected. I am going to send some samples to experienced first so that they can tell me how my soap compares to others in the market. I have already contacted/been contacted a/by a few people to test my soap but if other experienced people would like to try the Bomb please send me a PM. There is also the issue of batch size. At this time, I cannot supply soap for the entire SRP community, that is another thing that would have to be worked out. In any case, I am not sure that I will want embark in a commercial venture at this time anyway, there is a lot of responsibility that comes with manufacturing skin products. Perhaps my reward would be to know that I am the only person in the world that can shave with the Bomb ;-). Who knows..., for now I just want to get a formula that I can feel 100% satisfied with. More to come soon.... ;-)

Originally Posted by rmmcel2001

Im always curious of the scent when seeing pictures like this. hmmm

No need to guess, this batch smells like sandalwood. I have used other scents too .

Al raz.

May I ask what your reference is of these "essential oils that are known to prevent skin cancer" ? Due to scientific (pharmaceutical) background, I'm always slightly suspicious when I hear/read things like that.

To stay on topic: that's quite some lather you get from so little soap! Congratz.

Originally Posted by Zwaplat

May I ask what your reference is of these "essential oils that are known to prevent skin cancer" ? Due to scientific (pharmaceutical) background, I'm always slightly suspicious when I hear/read things like that.

Thanks for the comment, I did not know that a scientist was going to call me on that ;-). Well, not every essential oil prevents cancer, I did not mean to imply that; I apologize if I did. One of the components of the essential oils I used to make my soap induces controlled cell death when small amounts are used to treat mice that have certain types of skin cancer. I would be more than happy to talk more about this with you but probably not in this thread, as it would just not be fair for others that are not interested in the science involved. And yes, there are several recent research articles describing the cell biology and the biochemistry involved.

To stay on topic: that's quite some lather you get from so little soap! Congratz.

Thanks, I think that it works great, but I could be biased... ;-)

Al raz.

If you do start a market for it, Let me know, I would love to try it.

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