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I’d never heard of those before and just earlier saw a soap made with these that was the most beautiful shade of green! I can’t wait to see what you make with it.

I master batch my lye, so if I mix any of my additional water with an additive I usually add that to my oils (and if any of my additional liquid is something besides water, I put that in my oils too). The only thing that gets added in my premixed lye solution is plain water, and sodium lactate...

There's always something new to learn hehe. I'm just happy I wound up with a pretty soap even if I can't enter it in the challenge.

Photo day here tomorrow as well, assuming I have okay light :)

I’ve been cleaning my craft room to make space to make more soap! I found some scraps of melt and pour that I don’t know why I had or how old they were so I threw them all together and made a 1lb loaf with a tiny FO sample that I also found 😂 It took me less than 5 minutes and now I really want...

How pretty! I would let them cure and see what happens. Maybe you like them, maybe you don't, but either way you'll learn something from it :)

Well... I was wrong lol; my soap *did* set a little too much, and so I have a nearly perfectly straight line between my base layer and my swirls layer, and the swirls layer looks kind of like funny-colored camouflage. It's still a pretty soap but not at all what I was going for here. I'll try again!

Gorgeous! Those swirls on top... 😍 I need to learn how to do those.

Waiting is the hardest part! *stares at freshly unmolded soap that isn’t quite ready to be cut yet* My recipe didn’t thicken up too much on me but I may have gotten it a touch thicker than I meant to in the beginning. I also had a measuring snafu splitting my batter and had to pivot my colors a...

Oh no, I didn't need to know BB has a trial size sale haha. I wish their sample bottles were bigger, though. On a similar note, I guess another soapy thing I did today was buy samples of a few of CandleScience's new soap safe scents... This is so relatable! 😂

Today I rewatched the Soap Challenge videos while I cleaned up my soaping area, and I might actually get to make some soap for it tonight :) If not tonight... tomorrow for sure!

How big is your batch/how much lye did you actually use? 10.5g might not be soooooo bad, maybe? I recently forgot to account for the fact I master batch my lye and so when I measured out 140g of solution... that was only 70g of lye when I actually needed the full 140! That poor soft soap lol. I...

I, too, had an itchy trigger finger on the stick blender my first batch for fear of false trace! It takes a lot less blending than some of us think the first time haha. My first batch was a thick disaster that I had to scoop instead of pour, and my second... was better but still too thick lol...

We just had some wind here where I am but everything looks fine, nothing too unusual. I think we’re still expecting snowpocalypse this weekend though. Hopefully we don’t lose power!

We had bratwursts with grilled onion and bell pepper, and fries. Oh hello neighbor! :)

Sometimes I go looking up color palettes to get ideas. I don't always get exact matches but it can help get the wheels spinning. I did that for a striped soap challenge I did. Here's an example. I do also sometimes have to mix colors to get what I want, which can be a lot of fun.

Oh I've yet to do a soap with a super fat so low, I'll give it a go. Thank you!

Thank you :) I had thought to leave the SF at 8% but for no real reason, I do everything else at 5% so it makes sense to drop it. I've used citric acid for soap scum once before but that soap is still curing so I don't know how I feel about it yet, By grippy I just mean it doesn't slide across...

I'm trying to get a triple butter recipe that I like, but I don't exactly know what I'm looking for and hoped maybe you all could help me workshop it a little before I get carried away. The first one I made was 24.6% Coconut Oil, 24.6% Olive Oil, 15.4% each Shea Butter, Mango Butter, and Cocoa...

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