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Thank you for your informative post @earlene and all of the accompanying narrative and photos! Please do keep us posted on the progress of them. As everyone else has commented, I'll add that I have heard of Rejuvelac, but not made a good batch of it. How do you find it works in your soaps...

Wow, thank you for sharing your tutorial, nicely done! Very interesting, clearly explained, and entertaining :)

Thanks for the tip re. baking paper! And I'm sure you'll get a gorgeous gel, you seem to be able to make anything work! Looking forward to seeing those... They are from a Silikolove mould, available from AliExpress who happen to have a Mid-Year Sale on now .. I did not need to see that!! There...

Here is yesterday's batch artfully (dis)coloured by White Tea and Berries FO. Thanks to @KiwiMoose for the heads up/tip! I like it!

Update on Batch 10: Adapting KiwiMoose's Soy Wax Here is yesterday's batch, smelling sweet! The middle-bottom bar is plain, the middle-top bar is (dis)coloured courtesy of White Tea and Berries FO. I like it! The ITP swirls are a bit mottled, I guess the (dis)coloured batter bled. The lines are...

That's right, I CPOP as you describe: preheating the oven to 50ºC, putting the moulds in and turning the oven off. I sit the moulds on wooden chopping boards, which make moving the moulds easier and will also retain some heat. And I usually 'top up' the oven temperature to 50ºC again a couple of...

That transformation mostly took place in the first week but continued to develop further, I took photos daily to try to capture that, and I was trying to come up with a clever way to show that but my photos weren't clean enough and I haven't been clever enough. The ungelled soaps developed ash...

Thank you all for your kind feedback! And interesting to hear, @Mobjack Bay , I thought I'd previously read that "chlorophyll won't stay green", but the chlorella sure is putting up a good fight! Mind you, we're only half way through the cure... Also, I had a look at my latest batch before...

Today I posted an update on my Battle of the Greens, three weeks on. I also made a batch of soap where I tried using cacao butter, gave castor oil the flick, learnt about False Trace, and tried a new FO (smells delicious! will it discolour in my favour?). Learning, learning! Thank you all for...

Batch 8: 'Battle of the Greens' Three week update Batch 10: Adapting KiwiMoose's Soy Wax A while back I bought some raw cacao butter and I thought to see how it would perform in soap in place of Shea butter. I also used up the last of my castor oil in the batch above and after some reading...

Thanks for all the experiments you're trying and sharing with us, so much useful information (and pretty pictures as well!)

Wow, I am also surprised but very happy to hear your matcha soaps have kept their colour, that was a lovely shade! @KiwiMoose's soaps have also done well keeping up their appearances, it was good thinking to have those reinforcements in place. The true test will come with time, but for now it's...

Hallo @Mobjack Bay, thank you for your kind words though I cannot promise my greens will stay that way! (I think I see one of them turning, will keep you posted on that when I have enough evidence). And nice purchase! All my soaps so far have been in individual cavities, they don't allow the...

Hallo LillianNoir, it's great you've made a few batches and know this is what you want to do, the next step is to do it! Have you got a physical list of your ideas and recipes? Having that can make it easier as when you find you have both the time and energy you can scan through the list and...

Welcome to the forum (and to the addiction!) I look forward to seeing what you've been making!

Thanks for sharing @earlene, I like how you always share information in such a calm, considered and carefully evaluated manner, I know I can trust information coming from you. I've only boxed two batches but have others I should pack away now. They are currently stacked loosely into a closed...

Not a bother, we experiment and learn! We may be stacking up the ways not to make green soap, however if we keep on trying maybe one day we'll find a way :D Thanks for sharing!

I echo your thanks, and to all the other unnamed people who've contributed to this community. A true team effort behind each of our soaps!!

Thank you always, @Dawni! Fortunately I didn't use salt in these, so that won't be a factor, though I know the tan will still come.. "3ish months?" Ooph -- I hadn't thought how long I might need to leave them on that board! I don't want them to move about too much, for consistency in the...

The soaps are stored in the garage between photos, so mostly living in the dark. Hopefully this may extend their life, but I think the biggest threat to the colours is the lye monster, and that chlorella and spirulina have lasted so long because their cell walls are (currently) intact; my matcha...