Well, I had an interestingly strange experience with one of the colors of my 13 color soap dough that I made 2 nights ago. So the dough is about 41 hours of age ATM. I soaped very cool and left the plastic-wrapped soap dough out in my cold house non-insulated for that time. I checked temps once, and poked at some of the colored rectangles a few times. Temps remained cool, the ones I poked set up but remained soft enough I felt waiting another day would have been fine, but I unmolded and wrapped in plastic more tightly today.
The strangely interesting experience is that one bar, the one colored with Silver Graphite mica from Steph's Micas & More was hard and broke into squares (like bakers chocolate breaks into squares when it is scored). I was amazed that when the rest of the bars are still soft and pliable, this one acts as though it decided to gel all on it's own in a little cavity mold on the outer edge of the multi-cavity mold with no heat transference going on. Very odd indeed. I might have expected it with the TD soap, which was actually in a disposable plastic cup because I only had 12 cavities total in the 2 molds, and it was a larger amount. It is a bit harder as I expected, but still soft enough I can work it into pliability.
I plan to come back to these tomorrow (or late tonight, since Hubby & I are going out later to a movie and dinner) and maybe I can work on the silver graphite colored soap to see if it can become pliable. If not, I'll make another one tomorrow when I make the blues I forgot to include in my 13 colors range, but refrigerate it and keep a really close watch.
So I was thinking about this, and while I will give a try to making the dough from CP, there is more than one way to make soap dough with MP.
So is this going to be an CP challenge exclusively? Do we have to use sorcery recipe?
As an idea, why don't you post the challenge already with pictures samples of what the challenge and rules would be? That would be so helpful!
SunRiseArts, earlier in the thread
newbie mentioned using MP soap dough, and I think she or someone else included a link about MP soap dough. She also said in a subsequent post (beyond the initial post) that we can use any soap dough recipe we choose and that it doesn't have to be the Sorcery recipe. Several recipe links have been included by different folks here, and some of us are planning on using our own regular soap recipes. That's what I am doing. I've made some for practice using one of my regular recipes and I am happy with how it performs, so I made several more colors to give me a variety of options.
Please expand on the 'more than one way to make soap dough with MP' because I am very interested in learning. I don't do much MP, but I do still have a couple of bases left from projects with my granddaughter.
No clue about the last question, but
newbie should be along any day now and we should know very soon.
