I haven't made CP in years. I had forgotten things, like the soap sticking to the mold, the ashy textures, the burning when I pushed it out of the molds, the failed ugly textures, the mess, the mess, the mess!
First batch a few weeks ago. Some Drakkar Noir from Brambleberry in a bee slab mold, which stuck horribly, even after freezing. So I bounced and flapped it around, then realized I had messed up all the bees. Colorants are Labcolors aqua I think and some neon yellow.
Energy with neon purple and orange. Another horribly stuck mold. Smells great, though!
Hello Kitty in a strawberry scent with neon pink and labcolor green.
And I'm all "Derrrr. I don't know how to mix these colorants so I have big clumps of color." Now I've read that oil dispersing should work. I'll do it next time.
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A week later, I try some cucumber-melon with labcolors aqua and melon red. I think there's too much oil in it and it's terribly soft. Although it didn't remain terribly soft a couple weeks later. I was unable to provide enough heat for the poor scarab beetle to gel and I hate his ashy texture.
I also tested Brambleberry's toasted rice colored with turmeric and burgundy oxide. I put it in a heart-shaped silicone baking pan and hot processed it at 190ish degrees for about an hour, then turned off the oven. I took it out in the morning and it had these large bubble marks around the edges, like it had boiled to death.
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This weekend, I try some Brambleberry spearmint eucalyptus with black oxide, teal oxide and white in a pot swirl with disappointingly little color. Although I like the marbly texture of the black. At the end of the pot I was totally out of color so I added gold sparkle mica to see what would happen. After I unmolded and sliced it, I washed with a piece to see if the lather would turn black. It didn't, and the soap was even moisturizing. How nice! It gelled very nicely in the pvc upright mold.
Also, I made a test batch of Relaxing with burgundy oxide heavily used, sparkle gold and heavy metal gold, swirled in a Glad plastic container. When I slice it, I see it looks like a bathtub. Or a cat's head. That's handy! The heavy metal gold has greened and mostly disappeared and the sparkle gold seems to be holding on. At least for the two days that it has existed.
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First batch a few weeks ago. Some Drakkar Noir from Brambleberry in a bee slab mold, which stuck horribly, even after freezing. So I bounced and flapped it around, then realized I had messed up all the bees. Colorants are Labcolors aqua I think and some neon yellow.
Energy with neon purple and orange. Another horribly stuck mold. Smells great, though!
Hello Kitty in a strawberry scent with neon pink and labcolor green.
And I'm all "Derrrr. I don't know how to mix these colorants so I have big clumps of color." Now I've read that oil dispersing should work. I'll do it next time.
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A week later, I try some cucumber-melon with labcolors aqua and melon red. I think there's too much oil in it and it's terribly soft. Although it didn't remain terribly soft a couple weeks later. I was unable to provide enough heat for the poor scarab beetle to gel and I hate his ashy texture.
I also tested Brambleberry's toasted rice colored with turmeric and burgundy oxide. I put it in a heart-shaped silicone baking pan and hot processed it at 190ish degrees for about an hour, then turned off the oven. I took it out in the morning and it had these large bubble marks around the edges, like it had boiled to death.
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This weekend, I try some Brambleberry spearmint eucalyptus with black oxide, teal oxide and white in a pot swirl with disappointingly little color. Although I like the marbly texture of the black. At the end of the pot I was totally out of color so I added gold sparkle mica to see what would happen. After I unmolded and sliced it, I washed with a piece to see if the lather would turn black. It didn't, and the soap was even moisturizing. How nice! It gelled very nicely in the pvc upright mold.
Also, I made a test batch of Relaxing with burgundy oxide heavily used, sparkle gold and heavy metal gold, swirled in a Glad plastic container. When I slice it, I see it looks like a bathtub. Or a cat's head. That's handy! The heavy metal gold has greened and mostly disappeared and the sparkle gold seems to be holding on. At least for the two days that it has existed.
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