Texture

We have a bar of Edward Soap in the shower.  Actually we don’t know what to call it yet.  But that name works for now. 

It's got vanilla bean in it for a little robust texture.  Ground up with all the tiny, black vanilla seeds is the whole bean pod; brown flecks of fiber, mixed with the black seed specks.  In the light brown soap, the fibers and seeds offer something to keep things interesting - texturally interesting, both from a visual sense, and in how it feels on your skin.  The brown flecks are woody and fibrous, almost scratchy, but nice.  Just the right amount of invigorating exfoliation, with just the right amount of lather and creaminess.

I’m not sure why yet, but some of our soaps, as they cure, get a kind of crystallized look to them.  It isn’t something you can feel, but something you can see; little pockets of darker colored soap, surrounded by thin lines of lighter colored soap, as if it was cracked.  We first noticed it in the citrus soaps.  This one has it too. 

We aren't sure if its from the essential oils we use to scent the soap, or if it's possibly the colors used.  Everything else in the batch, from the base oils use, to the batching and drying process, is about the same in all the other batches. 

I like how it looks; irregular, and covered in tiny, intersecting lines.  Like a shattered piece of tempered glass, or a road map of Texas; the tiny flecks of fiber, and specks of black seed, marking the towns and cities along the route.  This is a good, down to earth, manly soap.