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Since entries were supposed to be accepted May 22-28, I’m posting this here. I mixed up a masterbatch of oils about a week ago, chose 3 butterflies as color inspiration, and then got prettsick. Soaped as much as possible, but only made the first: an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail. I used a flat...

that’s commitment (using a spatula even after it breaks)!

I’ll find out eventually. 😅 this soap sold really well, so I’ll be making a lot of it

Oh, that’s so weird! Maybe I did it to myself. One of the swirls looked less than perfect, so I went back and re-swirled a corner after it had started to set up, and maybe that crackled the top. So tempting to mess with it 😅

Really glad you started this thread—I’ll need to buy a new SB soon. I bought a KitchenSmith SB on sale for $15 from Target 14 mos ago, and after ~60 batches of soap, the bump that clicks when I twist the blade attachment off/on for cleaning started to break. Thinking about just buying the same...

If so, the 👽🧠 started before I put the lid on, bc I noticed the texture change before I sprayed with alcohol, added the lid, and wrapped it up to put it in the warm oven. I’ll plane it off, but I wonder how to avoid this next time if it happens that fast?

That makes it easier to match your batter 😂

Tried again (4th batch on the right), using 10% of my batter as the white. No fuzziness, but I got an odd crackly finish (glycerin rivers?). I think I’ll stick with my batch 3 (bars on the left) strategy. Surprised if it’s glycerin rivers, since I soaped at 95F and used a steep water discount...

Do we only post soap shots in the gallery? Finished another soap mold! A little overzealous sanding the ends, 😅 but that’ll make the removable side piece slip out smoothly, so it’s ok.

I love using the handles to swirl. They’re the perfect size and glide over the bottom of the mold. Other than swirling, I use them instead of a chopstick to pour FO down the handle, but I mainly use the baby spatulas to disperse/squash oxides into oils (instead of a palette knife like Tree...

I’ve started trying to count the spatula sets when I watch Tree Marie videos 🤣. I’m less than a (very focused) year and a half into collecting soapmaking spatulas! Here’s my collection so far. 😤 How many spatulas do you own?

I was curious to see the color difference if I gelled my colors, vs. preventing gel by refrigerating a cavity mold. Its a swirl of Caribbean Blue mica (BB), charcoal, and yellow oxide (BB). Easiest to see the color difference in the blue mica.

It might be—I usually use some kind of sugar and also CPOP. Could just refrigerate CP to skip gel completely Usually Brambleberry Do you know why this works? Maybe harder bars are less prone to soda ash?

You've had success with pink grapefruit! That's fantastic --what rate do you use it at, and do you CPOP? Do you need to use kaolin clay? True, flash point is the wrong word; I just don't know the right word. I wonder if there are charts of "scent stability maximum temps", or something like...

Thanks so much, @earlene ; you're right about the TD being thinner than the others. I'll try fixing that. I actually ended up waiting for more than an hour, following her minimixer-wait-minimixer-wait strategy, so I definitely did start getting impatient by the end (actually ran to the...

Link seems broken! I'd love to see your pic.

I've been trying to master trace so I can play more with swirling techniques. My fragrance does accelerate a little bit (first batch turned into a panicked plop, but I really loved the texture), so after watching a million more videos, this time I followed Tree Marie's method in her night...

Finished putting together a 2lb loaf mold today. The semester ended last Friday, but managed to cut out 3 loaf molds and 2 slab molds (and drying rack shelves) before losing sculpture shop access for the summer. Shop access really is the gift that keeps on giving. I've always wondered what...

Thanks so much, really helpful.

I... am learning from a master 🤯 My Chief Packaging Officer received a shipment today: my first time ordering a fragrance bigger than 16 oz. I. Can't. Believe. I'm. Ordering. Gallons. Now. (Not the only thing in the order, but I'm still trying to get used to the idea!) I might not have room...