Guest guest Posted January 4, 2005 Report Share Posted January 4, 2005 Kathy, Maybe you'd start with getting the soap the right color. Since beer soap works out pretty well, wine shouldn't be too difficult to just sub for the water. Still, you'd probably want some fragrance - and that would be the toughest part. Mind still wandering around this one...... Tina The Essential Herbal - the magazine by, for, and about herbie people and the things they love - HERBS!!!! 6 juicy issues per year, filled to the brim with crafts, recipes, lore, and remedies. Subscribe today! www.essentialherbal.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 4, 2005 Report Share Posted January 4, 2005 Kathy, Maybe you'd start with getting the soap the right color. Since beer soap works out pretty well, wine shouldn't be too difficult to just sub for the water. Still, you'd probably want some fragrance - and that would be the toughest part. Mind still wandering around this one...... Tina The Essential Herbal - the magazine by, for, and about herbie people and the things they love - HERBS!!!! 6 juicy issues per year, filled to the brim with crafts, recipes, lore, and remedies. Subscribe today! www.essentialherbal.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 4, 2005 Report Share Posted January 4, 2005 Still, you'd probably want some fragrance - and that would be the > toughest part. Mind still wandering around this one...... > Tina I've made a wine soap and color is a part of your consideration. Color would depend upon the type of wine you are using, though. Chardonay could still be white, but a merlot or shiraz would be a different story. The scent will certainly need to be enhanced, as I found not much of it, if any, stayed in the soap. You also need to watch temp closely or the alcohol will boil up when you add lye to wine . . . When I do beer soap, I let it go flat first. Ruth adobesoapworks.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 4, 2005 Report Share Posted January 4, 2005 Still, you'd probably want some fragrance - and that would be the > toughest part. Mind still wandering around this one...... > Tina I've made a wine soap and color is a part of your consideration. Color would depend upon the type of wine you are using, though. Chardonay could still be white, but a merlot or shiraz would be a different story. The scent will certainly need to be enhanced, as I found not much of it, if any, stayed in the soap. You also need to watch temp closely or the alcohol will boil up when you add lye to wine . . . When I do beer soap, I let it go flat first. Ruth adobesoapworks.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 5, 2005 Report Share Posted January 5, 2005 Kathy I make wine soap all the time. The wine adds lots of suds to the soap. I use homemade wine which has a higher alcohol content and it works fine. I let the win sit out opened in the bottle for a few days before using. I use wine in place of water 100%. You must be very careful when mixing the lye with it as it will bubble up and out of the container very easy. Just add it slowly until mixed and it's good to go when cooled down. One thing, it does smell bad but when made into soap the smell is gone. It's great stuff. If you need help please let me know. Oh and one thing you might do is grapevine shaped soap. Also, add a little wine to lotion and call it wine lotion. Nice thing for a winery to sell. Good Luck Barb in Kentucky > > > I have been asked to formulate a " wine soap " for a local winery. Do I > replace some or all of the water with wine or would it be better to get some > of the pulp and infuse that in the water. Or am I totally off base on this. > > I would appreciate any suggestions you may have. > > Happy New Year to all!! > Kathy Haynes-Ellis > Preserving Thyme Herbals > Crafter of Fine Soaps & > Bath & Body Products Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 7, 2005 Report Share Posted February 7, 2005 Jeanine, are you making this soap with real wine? Shaye > > I've ordered some 'berry wine' from Brambleberry. Supposed to be a > nice winey scent. > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 7, 2005 Report Share Posted February 7, 2005 Jeanine, Let me know how you like BB's Berry Wine in soap. It smelled like vinegar out of the bottle to me. :-) lovelylilyone wrote: > > Yes, the recipe I am sort of going to follow calls for real wine that > has been boiled to release the alcohol. Sort of like making > stoganoff. Hoping the fo comes today. I'd like to have this done > for the first big show in April. > > Jeanine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 7, 2005 Report Share Posted February 7, 2005 In a message dated 2/6/2005 8:43:37 PM Eastern Standard Time, jlv40@... writes: Just voted on the gathering date. For sure spring is coming when we start talking about this lovely event. Will be my third and am really looking forward to it. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Woo hoo!! Beth Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 7, 2005 Report Share Posted February 7, 2005 Berry wine is an AWESOME scent!!!!! I just love it. Mmm ... just thought that I'd let you know that it received a total thumbs up from me, Jeanine! nne Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted March 15, 2005 Report Share Posted March 15, 2005 Thanks to all for your kind comments. It was fun making it. My neighbor came in while I was simmering the wine and said the neighborhood smelled like a still. I had my exhaust fan on. It did make the house smell like wine for a few hours. How bad is that? Jeanine Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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