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Ditch the heating pads and towels and just place the filled soap molds in the cooler and put the lid on. That’s all.

Your pup in your profile photo looks like my Lily!

I love lard in soap. Makes such a gentle bat of soap and soooo creamy. I cannot detect a pork smell in the finished soap. On a side note, I also buy a big cube. I use the lard for baking. As an ingredient in pie crust, the results are outstanding. I also use lard when I make roasted potatoes.

@AliOop I actually really like that your pours were a bit uneven. 😍 @KiwiMoose Love the rainbow colors!!

It’s funky. You can see how the divers started to swim around in the mold and ruin the design. Ah well. Everyone else’s soaps turned out amazing!!

My dividers still have not arrived. At this point, even if they came tomorrow, given my schedule, I won’t be submitting an entry. Instead, this was my failed attempt. I love the colors. I will attempt it when my dividers do arrive, though, because the effect is unique

Hmm. So I cut the disaster. It’s not the intended design, but it looks really cool! Just pulled the trigger and bought real dividers. So, if I get them in time, I’ll try again. I REALLY like the color combination. Stay tuned…

Phooey. Made my first attempt and it was a disaster. My DIY dividers became unmoored and ruined the design. What a mess. I don’t have time to try it again and don’t want to waste raw ingredients trying to get it right. Oh well! Enjoy (and good luck), everyone!

Did you use more oils to disperse colorants than usual for the softer batch? The best recipe in the world can be easily ruined for being liberal with oils used to disperse micas. It’s possible that the masterbatch of fats wasn’t thoroughly mixed and you had an uneven/different proportion of...

I used a heated seedling mat to force gel in smaller batches of soap. Does an excellent job of it.

Sign up list: 1. dibbles - off to start obsessing about color combinations 2. The Phoenix - Time to dust off my dividers.

2-4 tsp of td is a lot to use even in one entire batch of soap. A little goes a very long way.

Aw, thank you, all! I was truly challenging and a fun experiment. Congrats @Mobjack Bay @VikingChick and @melonpan!

I made a flax seed gel batch of soap about a year ago. Cooked the flax seeds in water until thickened, then strained, squeezing to get the gel, using cheesecloth. Can’t say it did anything remarkable to the soap. The process for making chia seed gel would be the same. Cool until thick then...

Yup, mine are sweating. And they don’t even exercise! Ba dum bum…

Do you have any empty tubs from previous orders of palm oil you could transfer the contents of the bag into? I was never a fan of the bags. It felt very fussy.

It’s beautiful! Super smart idea about the QR code. I’ll have to look into that!

@szaza Thank you for hosting and presenting this challenge to us. Gave me a level of appreciation for people who exclusively use M&P and come up with extraordinary designs.

Oh how interesting.

I think this was the toughest challenge yet. Mostly because it depended on an ingredient that I had in limited supply. And I knew if my last attempt failed to wow, I was not going to get another shot. And making soap this weekend truly helped me move through my grief a little bit. I don’t know...