I am hand milling my successful cold process soap just to try it out! I made the basic soap for this purpose. I like the idea that you can use less fragrance and that the color stays truer with the hand milled technique.
Ahhhh- I had a strong inkling that the above might be the reason you were rebatching a successful soap!
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I did the same thing myself when I first started soaping. The thing I liked about it the most at the time was that on the spur of the moment, whenever the mood hit me, I could grate up and rebatch just enough soap to fill only 1 single cavity of a decorative mold in order to make a uniquely shaped bar of soap (instead of a whole bunch of rectangular bars) with whatever scent, color or additive that struck my fancy at the given time.
It wasn't very long after that , though, that I caught the CP bug full force and fell so much in love with it that I left my rebatching days behind (except for those rare times that I botch a CP batch up). lol
By the way, instead of rebatching, an easier way to get the same results you are after is to do the HP method of soap-making. It eliminates having to cut or grate up your soap and melt it down, etc... With HP, you start out as you normally would do with CP, but when the soap comes to trace, instead of scenting and coloring and pouring it into the mold at that time, you cook it in the crockpot or oven (the same as you would do when rebatching), and then when the soap is done cooking (i.e. when it tests out tongue-neutral), you add your scents and colors and additives.
IrishLass
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