Good enough to eat

I have always loved vanilla (is there anyone that doesn't?) so really wanted to try making a vanilla soap. The only issue is that vanilla turns soap brown, but I am happy to have brown soap if it means I can have the beautiful scent of vanilla in my bathroom. To practice some other techniques I thought I would make it a vanilla and almond swirled soap

I used the same basic recipe as the last few soaps but swapped the sweet almond oil for plum kernal oil which has an amazing almondy smell. I also used unrefined cocoa butter instead of the regular refined stuff I use which has a beautiful sweet chocolatey smell. When the spa was ready to mould I split it in half - one half had the vanilla essential oil and the other had ground almonds mixed into it for a light exfoliating texture.

I've just cut it and it smells amazing. To be honest the almond is stronger than the vanilla at the moment but it'll be interesting to see how the smell develops.

You can see the difference in the colours in the cut slices and it'll be interesting to see how they develop.