oldragbagger
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Today I received my sampler of FO's from Peak. They put a free sample in the box of Mango Peach Salsa. It smelled really nice and I just happened to have a bottle of peach dye from A.C. Moore's to try so I decided to make a small batch.
The recipe was a common OO-PO-CO-Castor. It had started to trace very nicely so I removed a small amount from the pot and mixed the peach color in to do some swirls. Then I went back and dumped the FO into the pot. It immediately reversed the trace. The soap became the consistency of diluted tomato soup with the sort of grainy look to it, very thin and runny with no sign of trace at all.
I started stick blending and stirring furiously but nothing was happening and it looked like it was threatening to separate at any moment. Meanwhile the soap in the cup with the dye was continuing to thicken, so I mixed a little more soap from the pot in with it to slow it down.
Twenty or more minutes later I finally got a very thin trace in the pot, and I was getting tired of blending at this point, so I poured in the mold. The colored soap had thickened considerably more than the stuff from the pot but I was able to get a decent drizzle onto the top of the loaf. My first swirl really. (I did one other in the pot but it was miserable and the milk scorched so I threw it out.)
Anyway, I just checked on it, 5 hours after the pour. It is heavy insulated in a doubled sleeping bag, but it is barely putting off any heat and it doesn't look like gel is anywhere in it's future. I will say the colors look pretty, although I have no idea what the swirl will look like when I cut it. It might be pretty shallow.
Will take pics tomorrow. Keeping my fingers crossed that it's soap when it grows up, but just a heads up on this FO that it is tempermental.
The recipe was a common OO-PO-CO-Castor. It had started to trace very nicely so I removed a small amount from the pot and mixed the peach color in to do some swirls. Then I went back and dumped the FO into the pot. It immediately reversed the trace. The soap became the consistency of diluted tomato soup with the sort of grainy look to it, very thin and runny with no sign of trace at all.
I started stick blending and stirring furiously but nothing was happening and it looked like it was threatening to separate at any moment. Meanwhile the soap in the cup with the dye was continuing to thicken, so I mixed a little more soap from the pot in with it to slow it down.
Twenty or more minutes later I finally got a very thin trace in the pot, and I was getting tired of blending at this point, so I poured in the mold. The colored soap had thickened considerably more than the stuff from the pot but I was able to get a decent drizzle onto the top of the loaf. My first swirl really. (I did one other in the pot but it was miserable and the milk scorched so I threw it out.)
Anyway, I just checked on it, 5 hours after the pour. It is heavy insulated in a doubled sleeping bag, but it is barely putting off any heat and it doesn't look like gel is anywhere in it's future. I will say the colors look pretty, although I have no idea what the swirl will look like when I cut it. It might be pretty shallow.
Will take pics tomorrow. Keeping my fingers crossed that it's soap when it grows up, but just a heads up on this FO that it is tempermental.
