Epic Fail

[Humblegoat]

@Humblegoat, I think your soap looks beautiful, love the colors! Just wondering though...if you forgot to put the lard in wont it be lye heavy? Anyone know?
Still, I would enter it in the challenge because you worked hard on it and it is very pretty.

@Shirley-D that is a good question! I made the soap last summer that I forgot the lard. I tested it and it didn’t lather quite as well, hard as heck, but otherwise it was ok. The chips were @ 1/3 of the weight with a new fresh batter. So what does lye heavy do to the soap when used? I have another one I’m going to enter, but given all it went through I thought it was pretty cool.

 

[Humblegoat]

@Humblegoat , way too bad your first confetti soap broke up. I loved the colors- like a beautiful yellow quartz with shades of yellow and orange with little chunks of black. I thought it was stunning! But , good news is you salvaged it and did not waste your EO’s! I wonder if for the future you could have put the broken soap chunks in an a little sack - made from an exfoliating cloth and used the soap bits like that. It was such nice soap!!

I threw it in the crockpot and melted it down just until I could scoop it in a mold. The chunks held up. @Shirley-D had a good question about chunks being lye heavy, so it might end up in a soap bag once it’s cured.

 

[Shirley-D]

@Humblegoat, I'm waiting for somebody smarter than me to answer this one. I just know lye heavy soap is very alkaline and therefore harsh on the skin. Having a high super fat could save it by using up the extra lye. Some people know how to turn it into laundry soap.
"Calling for our collective brainy people to the front desk please!"

 

[Humblegoat]

@Humblegoat, I'm waiting for somebody smarter than me to answer this one. I just know lye heavy soap is very alkaline and therefore harsh on the skin. Having a high super fat could save it by using up the extra lye. Some people know how to turn it into laundry soap.
"Calling for our collective brainy people to the front desk please!"

Smarter than me too!

 

[janesathome]

I decided to cut it much earlier than I usually do. Good thing, I barely made it through. The chunks remained whole. Here’s the result. Frankly, I’m not sure what to think!
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I like it! The last pass turned out great, IMHO