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Especially since they also smell like vanilla!

😂 Wish I could have seen that! I think they are beautiful. I never made salt bars and don’t know much about them, so I’ll need to do some reading on that.

Yesterday I made my first lotion bars! I used the silicon molds I made using real French macarons. ❤ I think this size is perfect for lotion bars or guest soaps. I’m really happy about them. They don’t have too much drag and leave the skin hydrated but not oily or sticky. I only wish...

me too then!

Don’t worry about it, since I was a kid my dad’s swear word has always been “sh*t”, so when I go to the US I have to keep reminding myself to NOT say it. And I’m not so good at it! I’m just a beginner, but I appreciate the compliment! My Asperger self is never satisfied unless things are...

Hi! Thanks for your answer. Not sure I understand though... Just to be sure: - You can see the phenomenon happen WHILE you are pouring the soap? I haven’t noticed that... I took video and plenty of pics but the resolution isn’t high enough to tell... - It only happens with your dancing...

What do you think of the smell through polyolefin shrink wraps? Would you still make a sniff hole?

*Blush* Thanks! It’s a nice soap (for a beginner at least), but it was a test so I’ll most definitely use it and/or give it away. :p

Yes, you can go see this thread in the pictures forum. ;)

Maybe try the one I used? I got it from « the Love of colours on Etsy. I can also write details about he recipe, soaping conditions and indigo preparation, if you’d like.

If you liked my soap you’ll be happy with the results. In a loaf mold, there’s less surface to work on but the layers will show inside the soap. Have fun! 😁

Great observation! 👍 I didn’t have a slab mold (I just received the small one I bought from Nurture soap) so I used my loaf mold as a slab mold. The thickness of the loaf is the thickness of the individual soaps (I cut the loaf into 5 soaps perpendicularly).

I’ve bought indigo powder and madder root powder from THE LOVE OF COLOR on Etsy: Colour by nature by theloveofcolours She’s located in Canada (so it’s a good alternative for us Canadians, the shipping was very fast (even with the COVID19 situation) and the products were excellent quality. I...

The cut soaps look really cool! Very happy about this batch.

The thing is... I had a 33% lye concentration myself. I guess I’ll eventually solve the puzzle.

Whoa 😮 you just blew my mind! I had never heard of that before. Gotta read about this. Could I discount the water more and still have a slow moving recipe? I know my other soap with natural colorants (same I used yesterday + madder + indigo) initially developed soda ash on top but...

No, all colours were mixed in 10 ml sunflower oil. Maybe it just shows more on certain colours? Unless certains colorants are more prone to soda ash, but I wouldn’t see why. I used annato, activated charcoal and chlorella.

Thanks a lot for the explanation! Any advice on preventing sofa ash and still have a recipe that moves slow enough to do intricate designs? It’s not very visible on this picture because I had sprayed alcohol on the soap not too long before, but you can see the soap ash in this picture:

Darn you, soda ash! 😤 I usually spray my finished soap with 99% alcohol, but I forgot yesterday. Could that explain why I got soda ash faster than usual? I had read here that with a 35% lye concentration a member never has sofa ash problems. Does soaping at lower temperatures increase the...

Today, thanks to the “I Dream In Soap” video about emulsion, trace, false trace and acceleration, I was able to make a nice dancing funnel! I’m very happy about it, although it would have been better suited for a slab mold. It’s sleeping right now, I hope it’ll go through gel phase so the...