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Congratulations Roselyn, scard and Serene. Awesome soaps. TY newbie, for making it happen. I will keep my eyes open for further challenges. I think they're going to be a good, and fun, way to lean.

Maybe tomorrow. I had an urgent order, from 14yo, to fill so just relegated froggy to a shelf out of the way. The order was for more shampoo bars, so he will clean himself with a Millenium Falcon syndet bar tonight. Hardly seems fair, slowly learning nice natural CP soaping and family keeps...

Soap is definitely a dark art. A week later my 'failed' black CP base has matured quite nicely. It's still a little granular in texture but is firm and soaplike now. I guess it just needed some quiet time to gel. Now that I can shave the main block the insert 'bubbles' look a lot nicer.

Yeah, there are recipes all over the place ... and I would not be surprised if there is a recipe repository on this forum site somewhere. I daresay some more expert folk will be able to help you more on that. I just google search and tweak what I find ... with varied results.

I am a beginner also. My first couple of attempts were olive and coconut oil mainly. I've just found small 400g tubs of lard and other animal shortening and have given them a try. Each fat and oil has different properties that get imparted into the soap ... some make it harder, some softer, some...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lard probably covers it pretty well. For soap-making purposes lard is one of the many sources of oils / fats that can be 'saponified' by chemical reaction with a strong alkali, to make soap. Some fats or oils derive from animals, lard included, while some come from...

I wonder if it's an issue with image file format. I have not looked at them all but those two ^^ are PNG files while the few I did look at on the main thread were JPGs. Perhaps the survey monkey site does not like PNGs.

Voted. Immersed in and overwhelmed by the general awesomeness of it all :-)

Yeah, he piqued my interest too. Sort of post-apocalyptic catrat creature. Cute yet troubling all wrapped in one. The pile of bones idea is also a good one. Our youngest son would love a raptor-claw bar of soap I reckon. Now I have to study raptor fossil anatomy...

Wow, she makes it all look so easy ... and her dough behaved very nicely, unlike the hellspawn stuff that I created. The final result made me think of 11th-12th century tapestries, like Bayeaux ... not that it had much floral work on it.

Process: The duckweed Small canes of differently green soap dough, sliced and squished. Then clustered and a small line gouged along each one. Very fiddly. Process: The frog Black dough balls, size matched as best I could. Cane failure so red and yellow dough worked to an irregular...

I have posted it now. The base bar was horrible, so I threw it together rather hastily and have not tidied up much at all. Still have to repair my pushbike and iron my work clothes for tomorrow. Still, I love him and you'll all understand what I was attempting. My inspiration ... Process...

Swampwater The idea was a frog peeping-up from the water through a blanket of duckweed. It's a red-eyed tree fog, which probably would not place itself in such a situation ... but has far cooler eyes to model. The bar underneath was trying to symbolise bubbling fermenting happenings in the...

Nor can I :) Disaster has struck. My CP base has failed dismally, partial gel only ... kinda like fine porridge. Ricing by the look of the pictures in the beginners' forums. I cannot remedy right now, no backup and it has all the inserts in it :-( Trying to do too much, too fast, in an arena...

Send her over here. I need someone to help shape and score my hundreds of tiny 'leaves'. I've moved inside to a table, because I'm getting sore neck and shoulders from the repetitive fiddly task.

My dough is just a week old now and some of it is losing its stickiness and becoming quite nice to work with, but some is still quite difficult - sticky and fragile - with the main difference appearing to be the colourant I used.

I found that refrigeration helped. I think it was because with working my warmed-up dough became squishier and stickier, so cooling it made just that little bit firmer. Overall, though, my caning attempts were fails. My initial eyeball plan was going to use caning techniques but that was a...

Thanks for that. I did try to find a tissue-blade on Friday, at local art supply stores, with no luck. I'd been watching a heap of polyclay technique videos, prepping for this project, and that seemed such an important tool. Using a sharp kitchen knife I found I pinched as much as cut those tiny...

Well, well, well, it's kinda falling into place. Maybe the dateline will save me and I'll have something presentable finished by deadline. Today: - My eyeballs grew eyes, those eyes found sockets, and the sockets a face. - My main 'sculpture' element is nearly finished and spending the night in...

Serence, you got canes to work! I am so jealous. I tried canes for my eyeballs and ended up with a potential turd-ball entry. In the end I layered, rolled, cut, and swore a lot ... fingers crossed. I did make some very simple canes today for my 'confetti', but I simply could not get the texture...