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I purposely soap at lower temps to be able to achieve more time consuming designs due to acceleration of trace when too hot. I will leave for work sometimes 8-10 hours at a time.

Beautiful job!

I gel all my soaps. I use a heating pad for 30minutes and then either wrap with a towel OR take everything off even the lid and allow it to air. I will do that if I see the heating pad has caused it to really heat up. I have recently gotten glycerine rivers (another subject) and cracking in the...

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Look at this soap I did. Its looks like bacon! I used lab color berry and titanium dioxide from BB. I can't imagine someone wanting that fragrance! :sick:

never thought about the design being obstructed good question!

I am a RN too Kittie! :D

I made some soap with a new fragrance called mountain lakes. It smells beautiful! It traces very quickly. I was trying to a different swirl pattern but I had to abandon that idea and end up plopping all 4 colors in. Hopefully I will be pleasantly surprised when I cut into it tomorrow. It is...

Happy soaping and congratulations on your first batch! :D Its better to be overly cautious than have a serious problem.

You can become allergic to anything. It is very possible, but probably not in your case.

I dont soap with a mask, but everything else I take the same precautions. Yes you can have an allergy to lye. If you end up having a true allergy realize that every exposure can become worse... worse being anaphylactic reaction. I would keep benadryl on hand, just in case you start to get hives...

My new husband and I were talking...when we have a baby we might start looking for a new house. I have always wanted a 1920s Spanish colonial home and they almost always have guests houses on the premises. If I am so lucky, I dream of turning something like that into a soap workshop, until then...

I have a huge linen closet with many shelves that I keep all oils, bars of soaps and other products that I make. I keep the fragrances on the two bottom shelves and then I label them with round stickers on top of the bottles. I label them so if I look down I can see everything verses having to...

Natures Garden scents: Its a Hippy Christmas and Fresh Linen are both nice and soap well. Do not get: Honey Dew Melon. It smells like vomit with a slight tinge of melon. I keep walking by my soap and think something has spoiled. I soaped with it twice with different recipes and both smell...

You did a beautiful job! I am impressed for your first soap.:thumbup:

Thank you Relle!

I talk to my soap all the time, but I am usually cursing at it. Happy soaping and post pics. I love looking at soap creations!

Stacy...said very well!

I was thinking... just start getting things ready and I am sure it will come to you. I have many times abandoned my ideas at last moment and come up with something totally different. Let the soap speak to you. ;)

Spiced apple cider: I see something red, brown, tan simple layering technique or a mantra swirl Pomegranate and black current: Red and black maybe do a hanger swirl for this one Blackberry: Purple, black and cream in the pot swirl. Oh the colors and techniques are endless!