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Three weeks into the cure, I noticed that my soap transformed from this: to this: My recipe: Sunflower HO (49%), Soy wax (24%), Coconut (12%), Sunflower oil - regular (10%), Castor oil (5%). 2% superfat // 33% lye concentration. I used white vinegar as the liquid. I gelled the soap on a...

I second @KiwiMoose about what happened to your soap. I use soy wax at 23% or 24% and recently decided not to force gel and see what happens. Here are both sides of the same bar, with the ungelled part looking very chalky, ashy and cracked. It looks very similar to your ungelled bar...

My soy wax CP recipe is very fast-moving AND I've recently been having issues with accelerating micas (who knew micas could accelerate trace???), so I decided to stop frustrating myself with swirls (with this recipe anyway) and go for a simple layered soap. This is scented with Black Raspberry...

@Zing : Such a moving story! I think you might have to send them some soap now! ;) Maybe the "stinky" comment was a hint . . . .

Thanks for bringing up argan oil. I was thinking of ordering it for my hair as well. Do you use refined or unrefined?

Wow! Very pretty soap!

@Quilter99755 Sorry for the delay in my respsonse. I really appreciate your detailed explanation!! :) Thank you! I'm going to give it a try.

Thanks so much for your reply! Would you mind sharing how much rice flour you add? I used 2 tsp for 500g of oil (approx 16 ounces) and I'm wondering if that was too much.

Hence the gluey-ness, huh? ;) Thanks for the advice! I'll give your way a try.

Thanks again! I'll let you know how it goes.

Wow! Thanks so much for your reply @Dawni ! It's CP, yes. You actually just helped solve another of this soap's mysteries (!!!), because I also had "orange-y, weird particles" in my soap, a spot or two in each bar. And I just couldn't figure out what was brownish-orange in my batch. I think...

I recently decided to try rice flour instead of rice puree because it seemed like less fuss. I used 2 teaspoons of rice flour in a batch with 500g of oils. I let the rice flour soak in 1 tablespoon of distilled water for about 45 minutes. Since I use soy wax and it needs to stay very warm, I...

Not Misschief, but I made soap with wine a few months ago and it came out brownish. I boiled down over 1.5 cups of dry red wine, and it came out to about 2 ice cubes, 28 grams in weight. I used this 28g of "wine syrup" and 118g of white vinegar as my liquid (33% lye concentration) in a 500g...

@Martha There's a Holly's Soapmaking video that addresses this issue of getting both blue and pink from an indigo powder infusion.

This is my latest batch. I was testing out Cucumber Melon FO from Micas and More. I'm slightly annoyed by the spots (stearic? bubbles?) but mostly ecstatic because this was a huge save. I was planning to do a drop swirl, but the colored portion got thick very quickly and made that impossible...

Thank you for sharing! I was so moved by your story! Soaping does my soul good in a way that I think only other soapers can understand. It's huge that we can all come together in this community of far-flung soapers.

Very kind of you! Thanks!

@Mobjack Bay Thanks for this information! I can definitely relate to color bleeding and morphing after using this dye! I actually did try a gradient with this dye, but it came out so ugly I didn't include it in my original post. But what the heck . . .

@ResolvableOwl Thank you for this!!! After reading what you wrote about Quinizarine green, I went back and read the label. It just says "oil soluble color/dye". So it was my mistake to assume it is an oxide. I think your best guess is right. Your description of the dye dissolving into the...

@Mobjack Bay Thanks so much for your insights! I'm going to try again. Interesting about the turquoise color on your ipad!