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I was going for a nice marble texture as seen on a few videos on YouTube but evidently, nay. I'm not sure if my pigmenting was too dark, or if the coloured portions were too large in % of the total batch, or if I'd reached too thick of a trace, or if my application of the swirl into the mould...

Ahh this is wonderful news, thank you all who've responded, sorry I've been a bit distracted otherwise I'd have been a bit more active in replying >< Tbh the top layer on my last bar of soap was applied maybe an hour or so after I did the initial pour into the mold, as I'd needed to wait for...

I've started looking into soap tutorials and methods for soapmaking where I can add an additional layer of soap onto my loaf that adds height and mass (and design) to the bars so soap past cutting. However I'm able to find very little about how to make sure that the frosting adheres to the soap...

Oh that is *so* going in my notebook, thank you! 😂

Ooo that sounds like a plan!! My first soap was made with Lard and tbh that could break a window, I've never had a soap get quite as hard quite the same way that recipe did sadly :( I hope my chasing the hard soap dragon is a venture short lived ahah And thank you! That FO sounds like exactly...

I know I was going for the whole "beer" thing but tbh I'll probably mix some yellow in the bottom and go with a citrus fragrance oil next time ahah "Slice of lemon meringue pie anyone?"

[Final result from this thread here btw] I did it!! I achieved a few more firsts in this soap than I originally planned but I'm so happy with the final result! 😄It's a beer soap w/ Honey fragrance oil. I had a few hiccups along the way, as evidenced by the previous post, but thankfully nothing...

Ahaha, thank you so much for all your help with my soap Obsidian, I'll try doing this next time! And thank you, it does look pretty delicious doesn't it 😅

So I made my 4th batch of soap yesterday with a recipe of Oil % Olive oil 60 Palm oil 20 Coconut oil 20 with a final oil weight of 700g (26.5oz) I also added 20g of Pure Honey Fragrance Oil (something I've used before with success, I only used that amount as it's all I had), and a...

I'm doing a 5% superfatted soap with some beer in leu of water. My recipe calls for 109g of water to the lye, and I've heard great things from using beer (soap qualities, fragrance, colour, etc) All the recipes I've seen have talked about just boiling the alcohol out which is cool, but I know...

All great suggestions, thank you so much! It's a good thing I was going for a natural stone look this time 😅

Ahh okay! I guess it mustn't have incorporated it fully then, as being milk it's hard to see through and I'd added it to the full quantity of milk before pouring into the oils. And I just found a hexagonal silicone mold on Ebay. Each mold is 100ml and does 4 at a time. I'd be happy to post a...

Thank you so much!! It was recommended for me to use 1tsp of salt per 450g (1oz?) of oils. I'd discussed this a bit on the forums recently, and it was suggested here that I added the salt into the milk component of the solution, which is then added to the oils, is what I did. But mixing it in...

So I de-molded my 3rd batch the other day! Initially I'd planned on the colour gradient going from White > Grey > Black, but, I made a blunder and got some grey in my white and now they're just a range of greys which.... I'm kinda happier with actually?? At first I was a little shocked when I...

Oh wowsers!! I had no idea I could add milk to the oils, every recipe just said to mix the solution components together prior to oil. That being said, it does seem like a great way of keeping the milk as cool (white) as possible, is there anything else I need to do? Like do I need to add more...

Let's say a recipe I'm using calls for 50g lye, and 100g liquid (50/50 milk and water). Because it heats up, I risk scorching the milk. As such, is it worthwhile combining the lye and water, and waiting for it to cool down before adding the milk? Or should I stick with the method of combining...

I made my first soap with lard! The recipe was the Simple Soap from soap queen, and all I did was a 1:1 replacement of the palm oil with the lard. It hardened in the mold very quickly, about 12 hours. I could've cut it sooner but I waited 18 before I cut it, and ended up getting some cracked...

Ohh it'll be quite a while before I'm able to give it a shot lol. I'm just waiting for some fragrance oils to come through to match the aesthetic of what I'm going for and unfortunately it's takin its sweet time 😩 Thank you to everyone for the feedback!! And I'll absolutely be posting photos ;D

Thank you! I think this type of technique is what I've been looking for. I think I need to really play with the trace and height of the dropping to really get a feel of how to best get the effect I'm looking for.

So I'm trying to figure out how to get a 2 colour design similar to this: I think my best bet at this point would be to fill the white up to the 2/3rd mark, then do 3 lines of the thick darker batter, before filling up the rest of the mold with the darker batter gently over the top. What I'm...