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Lovely, lovely, lovely!!! :D

I love that picture, the soap bars looks so rich and luxurious!

Thanks soaptrotter and Loolee, I really appreciate it! Loolee, I used Tomato Red liquid colorant from Nature's Garden :)

Beautiful soap! I have had crumbling like that from using too much sodium lactate, and for some reason, I can't use sodium lactate in my low slab mold, like yours appears to be, otherwise my soap is always crumbly, I'm not sure why! It's gorgeous soap though, it looks like big slabs of white...

Love the tops on your soap and the creamy color, great job!

The dark soap looks like mahogany...gorgeous! Both soaps are beautiful even if they weren't what you were expecting :D

Ooooh, pretty! Love the sparkly swirl on top!!!

Thank you Fata Morgana, Lisa, and Cake Baby! Bama, I hope you get your red color soon, it's my favorite red so far! Make sure you post pictures of your soap :D

Nice stephasafari, that's a super nice soap for your first attempt!!!

Thank you dirrdee and Judy!

That's beautiful, love the swirls!

Thanks everybody, I'm feeling the soapy love :mrgreen:

The technique I use is very similar to Dana's. I freeze my (homemade) almond milk into ice cubes and slowly add the lye, a little bit at a time, it takes me about 20-25 mins to dissolve all the lye (I don't take temps).

Aw, thanks so much everyone, I really appreciate your nice comments! :D

I've been working on a few new ones, shifting into winter soaps now: Blackberries & Cream: Caramel Apple & Gingersnap: Christmas Candy: Polar bears...lol!

Such a beautiful, light creamy color for a goat milk soap.....well done!

Sooo pretty, both of them. Gorgeous colors and tops, and I bet they smell great!

Well said countymounty22, it certainly puts things into perspective.

Another tip I just learned was that you don't have to bring the soap to trace; as in, you don't need to stickblend it until you see that it leaves a trail on the top of the soap. You can just stickblend it until the oils and lye water have fully emulsified without having it any thicker. This has...

I think what you are referring to is forced gelling, the method known as CPOP (cold process oven process). You place your CP soap in an oven-proof mold and put it in a 170F oven for 1-2 hours. Then, turn off the oven and leave the soap in the oven overnight. Whether or not it shortens cure...