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  1. Micchi

    Trimming

    I tend to bevel a few hours after unmolding and cutting. I don't like doing it immediately after cutting, mostly because I have a small space to work in so I have to cut, clean up the cutter, put it away, bring out the potato peeler and scrap bucket....it's easier on my poor back to split that...
  2. Micchi

    yesterdays soap

    Oh that is lovely! The pink might not have been what you intended, but I love the way it works with the purple.
  3. Micchi

    What soapy thing have you done today?

    I did manage to make a loaf of soap today and I am SO excited about it! Now I have to be patient and wait for it to be ready to come out and cut. Why is that always the hardest part?
  4. Micchi

    I keep seeing and hearing this a lot...

    There is a lot of competition in some areas, and not a lot in other areas. As others have mentioned, it's going to come down to a lot of marketing. Royalty Soaps can charge $12 for a bar of soap because she does small batch, limited run, creative art pieces of soap. Her products are whimsical...
  5. Micchi

    When the test batch is just too pretty...

    I made a small batch to test out a new mica, and wasn't going to clean it up and make it all pretty...but fell in love with the swirl. So I guess I've got a bunch of guest soaps curing! The mica is Nurture Soap's Bronze Brown. This is a swirl with that on its own, and the Bronze Brown mixed...
  6. Micchi

    What soapy thing have you done today?

    I started early in the soap dungeon today, working on cleaning up a batch testing out a new mica. I wasn't going to make it pretty, but then I fell in love with the swirl I made so now I have a bunch of pretty guest soaps on the curing rack! Today is also oil restock day, and maybe I'll even...
  7. Micchi

    How long to harden?

    I tend to unmold in the 18-24 hour range. My recipe uses more hard oils, but I soap in a very cold room. I have had batches need up to 48 hours in the mold, though. When I first started out, I'd check at about 12 hours, then every little while after that.
  8. Micchi

    Notes, notes and more notes

    I keep a spreadsheet of all of my notes. I have one tab that has notes on each batch (recipe, coloring and fragrances, design type, initial impressions of how the making went, and I update it as I test the resulting soap), one with notes on FOs, one with notes on colorants, one with notes on my...
  9. Micchi

    Hello from MD!

    Oh gosh, thank y'all for the welcome! :)
  10. Micchi

    When to start selling

    I feel like a year is a good general guideline for when you're ready to sell, but I also don't feel like it's necessarily a hard-and-fast "you must wait a year". There's a lot of factors that come into play. I grew up on a pretty self-sufficient farm. If I were to use my mother's lard soap...
  11. Micchi

    Hello from MD!

    Hello there! I'm Micchi. I'm new to the forum, but not new to soapmaking - I grew up on a farm, and spent many, many nights watching my mom and my grandma make soap from lard and tallow that we traded some of our goods for. I've done melt & pour since I was just 15 years old, and have spent...
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