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When you hit the four week mark, line up three close friends, people who would never sue you, to ‘test’ your soap.

Lye gets really hot and could break the glassware. Lye also etches glass and weakens it over time. Hdpe plastic is best for lye. Hdpe is also a reclyable material and a great option for mixing lye solution in. :)

My one bastile recipe was similar to this, no beeswax though, and I cut and unmolded my bars in about a week after initially pouring them, it took about a year before they were hard and a beautiful white color. They will be ready in a year. You picked a wonderful recipe for being a new soaper...

I too ended up with a half circle mold and a liner or two

just your friendly enabler giving notice!!! :D:D:D Well, I needed trial by fire... because red.

Should NOT have OPed my CP.... when will I learn. It would have been ok if I had put the support back on it and heated it up for 90 minutes max. But.... nooOOOOoooooooooooOOOOOoooo I decided against everything I read here and just popped it in for three hours. It now has a mangled top and it’s...

My soapy thing yesterday was to make a loaf of tea scented soap... and to be tea colored. Not sure I’m getting the color I wanted out of it and it was my first attempt at a hanger swirl but I have no idea how it will be because I have to wait at least 24 more hours. Also spent an hour refreshing...

@Michele50 ha! Thanks to a dribble from the Saran Wrap Love your soap too! Love the reds and green! Very seasonal

@Mobjack Bay ahhhh! So pretty the blue on blue with the white! Elegant! @SideDoorSoaps this is so earthy, it reminds me of moss and forests love it! @Dawni you know, it’s beautiful! The orange is soft and compliments the blue, the muddiness is ok, it gives a water color feel to the soap...

See, it’s got this wonderful spout, and it is definitely a thing that can potentially be trashed, eh, I can waste a pound of wax

@bookreader451 love it! The color combination is stellar!!! It’s almost like deja vu!

Let me know how this soaps and works out, it may be my next order.

@Karmic so great! Love the blue and black and uncolored! Striking and soothing all at once

Right... and if you read a lot peoples accounts with a lot of purees (strawberry, carrot, etc) over time they turn brown and too much can affect the hardness of the soap. So if we take the chemistry involved, the lye is going to react with the oils in the soap and not with the purees. If your...

Lol!!! Nah I found those floating in my workspace

And the soap with the blue to pink to now purple tops: Pink was so much better, it’s supposed to be blue. Ugh.

Sliced my soap! This is the green tea This is my latte scented soap:

Sounds like it’s soap! Did you let the lye solution cool down before pouring it in? If it’s on the warm side, it can accelerate trace, even a with slow oil recipe. Air bubbles can happen if you don’t ‘burp’ your mixing stick before blending. When I used a stick blender for the first time, I...

I had some soap that I rebatched with tea leaves and peach purée. A little over a year ago I found some of the abominations and my cheap self just used them. Disclaimer: they were horrid when I first made them 10 years ago. The rebatch was awful and the bars before I rebatched were some of the...

It’s called necroposting, and not encouraged. Many of the people are no longer subscribers or not as active on the forum. They’re great for initial information and initial research into stuff like dog shampoo. If you have a question, it’s best to start a new thread to get an answer or direction...