Post you ugly soap pics here - Troubleshooting thread

[not_ally]

I am not feeling at all warm and fuzzy, there is no boogerishness about those at all. They look like pieces of Bit-O-Honey. I am very disappointed in the general lack of slime/ugliness.

 

[newbie]

Hahahahahaha! Oh if only you could hold one. Not all boogers are slimey, you know. These are murky brown and look and feel like modeling clay. I can't even foist them off on anyone because they are just gross. They don't look like Bit-O-Honey in real life, that's for certain. If I offered one of these to a child, they would back away slowly, wide-eyed and then run for their life.

 

[doriettefarm]

Sorry newbie but those are fugly with a capital F! I've made several batches that looked similar but without the cool modeling clay consistency. I think grumpy was just trying to deflect with the shiny hair comment

 

[newbie]

THANK YOU, Doriette, for acknowledging their ugliness! Sometimes we need recognition for how dreadful something is. See, Not_ally? You are looking at the world through rose colored glasses. (teasing)

 

[not_ally]

I'm sticking with the Bit-O-Honey prism I tend to think that most all doggies, homemade soaps and babies are pretty much nice/fun to look at, although I have seen some exceptions. I admit, Newbie that does sound a bit PollyAnna-ish, but I feel much less so about adult humans ....

 

[newbie]

I have a lot of fun looking at ugly soap as well as pretty as well, but I just don't know how you can think my troll bars are not ugly. Fun to laugh at, yes, but like candy? Agreed on the adults, 100%.

 

[sugar_soap]

Wicked Witch - scary looking rebatched soap with a smell to match...the glitter was my (sad) attempt to liven it up

 

[not_ally]

Yes, I pretty much only reach for the glitter when I have made a mess of the top by overswirling it. It never helps, but I can never resist I have one of those waiting to cut right now, I hope the inside is better than the outside!

 

[sugar_soap]

This one started out as white soap with a pretty black swirl with orange so & banana and coconut eo. Charcoal soap riced up, I overheated the soap wrapped in towels and it just oozed out all the fo's & eo. Then a pretty bad rebatch...

 

[not_ally]

Oh, no. Confetti time! Here's a link to a really nice confetti technique that mintle posted recently: https://thesoapmine.wordpress.com/tag/confetti/

I bet it would be really pretty, you'd have your black and white soap, plus you could add the FO/EO to your new batter/non-confetti base mix.

 

[sugar_soap]

That's really neat will check out how it looks after cutting as it's starting to smell quite sweet and coconutish now. If it's good I'll keep it for Halloween markets

 

[not_ally]

Oh, good! If the coconut sticks, be sure to let us all know, everyone is always looking for a good coconut. They all seem to fade so much ....

 

[pau-rosa]

This is my lavanda-lemongrass soap that fell down to the floor ( whole butch), when I was cutting it... Also a trace was very thick so secret swirl turned out not really nice. But I already have some ideas of confetti soap!

 

[Sonya-m]

That ugly brown was a gorgeous blue when it went in - it's been rebatched but I feel that may be uglier still!!

 

[Saponista]

Oh sonya, I still think they looked really nice as they were! The tan colour goes well with the blue!

 

[newbie]

I have to say I wouldn't have rebatched because the blended colors tend to look sickening. It's odd but not terrible, although I would have been very peeved about the morphing blue. Whose and which color was it? I have one particular design fail that I still shake my head at, but heck if I was rebatching and ending up with more modeling clay soap! I'm slowly getting rid of it, telling people they have to take an ugly along with the good.

 

[Saponomancer]

I think both of the last two soaps actually look really good, honestly

 

[not_ally]

That's really neat will check out how it looks after cutting as it's starting to smell quite sweet and coconutish now. If it's good I'll keep it for Halloween markets

Sugar_soap, how did yours come out, was it beautiful after all? I did that confetti technique and quite liked it, b/t/w.

 

[Sonya-m]

Here's the rebatch

 

[sugar_soap]

Well....it's spongy & smells sickly sweet. Think it's going in the bin