Dawni
Well-Known Member
I call it an attempt because I'm not completely satisfied with how it looks.
Several things went wrong here.
If all went well, the green parts are supposed to be rice terraces, but it got gloppy too fast for me to make multiple "steps" with the cocoa pencil line. So hills it will be. Or mountains if you like lol. This was colored with a mix of green stuff meant to make smoothies lol which include spirulina, nettle and chlorella among other things.
The white part was supposed to be the light of the sun peeking out but I need more practice in getting my batter to stay where it's supposed to be and not spread out. I didn't color this at all. This recipe makes an almost white soap.
The ITP for the sky also didn't work out coz my indigo didn't mix in well with part of it so I just mixed whatever leftover batter I had left into one solid color. My indigo usually works well with almost anything so this surprised me.
@Mobjack Bay (thank you for your words of encouragement) reminded me that what's important is that it's a landscape. I was dreading it before cutting and I'm glad it's not worse like I thought it would be. It doesn't show but the whole left side of the loaf has gigantic air pockets so I'm surprised the bars are holding themselves up haha. I did also play around with trimming that side, hence the smaller bars...
Now see those white spots? This is a high lard soap with no butters and is otherwise very fluid without excessive water, and sometimes no yogurt even. For some reason, it didn't work out that way this time and I don't know what those spots are. They aren't dried soap either because I didn't have time to scrape my pot. My colorants did not want to color them.
All in all, it's not too bad. I'm happy with it, and it will be good soap to use so no waste here. Maybe in the future I'll have a go again.
Several things went wrong here.
If all went well, the green parts are supposed to be rice terraces, but it got gloppy too fast for me to make multiple "steps" with the cocoa pencil line. So hills it will be. Or mountains if you like lol. This was colored with a mix of green stuff meant to make smoothies lol which include spirulina, nettle and chlorella among other things.
The white part was supposed to be the light of the sun peeking out but I need more practice in getting my batter to stay where it's supposed to be and not spread out. I didn't color this at all. This recipe makes an almost white soap.
The ITP for the sky also didn't work out coz my indigo didn't mix in well with part of it so I just mixed whatever leftover batter I had left into one solid color. My indigo usually works well with almost anything so this surprised me.
@Mobjack Bay (thank you for your words of encouragement) reminded me that what's important is that it's a landscape. I was dreading it before cutting and I'm glad it's not worse like I thought it would be. It doesn't show but the whole left side of the loaf has gigantic air pockets so I'm surprised the bars are holding themselves up haha. I did also play around with trimming that side, hence the smaller bars...
Now see those white spots? This is a high lard soap with no butters and is otherwise very fluid without excessive water, and sometimes no yogurt even. For some reason, it didn't work out that way this time and I don't know what those spots are. They aren't dried soap either because I didn't have time to scrape my pot. My colorants did not want to color them.
All in all, it's not too bad. I'm happy with it, and it will be good soap to use so no waste here. Maybe in the future I'll have a go again.
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