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I think every batch I have made has made me crazy in some way or another. So far, only one batch has turned out exactly the way I thought/wanted. XD Granted I've only made like 10 CP batches, but yeah. Crazy.

These are beautiful. Everyone makes such lovely soap.

Welp. Cut yesterday's batch. It's... not quite the effect I was going for but it was also the first time attempting layers. I'm willing to give myself some slack there. I am a bit perplexed by the texture. The ends have a bit of "alien brain" texture on the inside, for part of it but not all. I...

From what I've heard it can. I've not yet soaped with it though.

Right?? Granted my work day consists of sitting at my computer for 8 hours, but it's mentally exhausting, and while I love soap making it is it's own form of mental work and exhaustion. So I have to soap on the weekends, and we've had a sick cat with a very uncertain diagnosis and future ( and...

<peeks in> I'm doing inventory and fragrance oil spreadsheet stuff. Does that count? Hoping to get to some fragrance development but it's uh <looks> already 930 so who knows. Life has been crazy lately so I've not been able to make soap for a few weeks, but I've missed you all here!

@SPowers That coffee soap looks amazing! How much coffee did you use? I guess it doesn't count for today but yesterday I cut the "pea soup" soap I made Sunday. Apparently, that formula lightens quite a bit on saponification so the colors actually turned out quite nice!(I'd never tried to color...

I usually make lye the day before because my energy levels can be really inconsistent, but one day! I will try the heat transfer method. Heh I live in Florida. Right now temps are in the mid 90s, with humidity around 60-70% and heat index around 98. 🤣 I won't even make lye outside because of...

Thanks everyone!! I already have more plans to use the glow mica, although sparingly, in future projects. @Kiti Williams it's from mad micas! They have a blue and a green glow in the dark. It's white normally. https://www.madmicas.com/products/blue-glow-glow-in-the-dark-pigment

I don't know about the original poster, but the soap with the 10% castor isn't sticky at all. That formula is one of my favorites.

I think maybe my original question/thought is getting a little lost. I'm not asking about the steps or general soaping temps so much as what people consider "room temperature". So, for example, @Relle do you consider that process you described as "room temperature" soaping? To me, it wouldn't...

Ah! Here's hoping. I seem to always have something "go wrong" when I soap. Hopefully it turns out ok! Orange EO's are pretty fragile and tend to fade, so you might be surprised after cure? I wish I knew!! I am CONSTANTLY having oils drip (sometimes a lot) when pouring to measure, to the point...

So when you say "room temp" you mean your *oils* are room temp, and your lye is warm/hot? See this is what's interesting to me. I see folks using the term "soaping at room temp" all the time, but it very much seems to mean different things to different people which can make it confusing when...

All of this. Just. All of it. LOL

I've been curious about this phrase for a while. I had some issues soaping too warm when I started, and then my last batches were too cool 🤣 (lord, help me). And I had people recommend or mention that they soaped at "room temperature" without issue. Well technically, my batch that was too cool...

I need to do some cleaning up of batches. What do you use to plane?

This was for a soap challenge and while it didn't get very many votes and wasn't a super stellar example of the technique in question, I'm quite proud of it. I was less interested in winning and more in seeing if I could pull off a concept. And I did! I'm also quite pleased that the photos were...

uhm I love making soap but the entire damn process is one long bout of anxiety. LOL. It's just like, different levels of it. You're not alone there @Catscankim THIIIIISSS Part of my soaping journey is learning to enjoy the experience. And in fact, today I had quite a pleasant session (even if...

After three weeks of not wanting to make soap at ALL (current world events and personal life stuff has me a bit depressed) I made myself make an "easy" batch, with a simple itp swirl, a well behaving FO, and a recipe I've used before. It was a pleasant enough experience buuut (of course) I...

Yup, 5% super fat. I thought the initial recipe was good, but maybe slightly drying, but no one else that tried it reported that. I am finding my skin is sensitive to co. Since then I made a batch reducing coconut oil by 10% and replacing with 10% castor oil and that was absolutely fantastic. So...