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SMF June 2023 Challenge: Layers!
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@AliOop im a terrible one for crying for help before I’ve really looked into solving the problem. I figured it out, and posted!@janesathome please let me know if you need some help with that - I'm here and happy to assist!
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@Shelley D Thank you! It took me a while to find the right thread. I did it! And I appreciate your helpful post.
So glad you did - it's beautiful!@AliOop im a terrible one for crying for help before I’ve really looked into solving the problem. I figured it out, and posted!
Thank you - I appreciate you!
Wow, all these soaps are amazing! I’m sitting over here glad I didn’t enter!
@Terri E I’d love to hear more about your dragonflies. How did you make them, and how did you attach them to your bars? They’re beautifu!
@Terri E I’d love to hear more about your dragonflies. How did you make them, and how did you attach them to your bars? They’re beautifu!
Nvm, I found the post where you explained it.
Fabulous soaps, everyone! There are many great design and color combo ideas to steal borrow. 
Awwww I wish you didn’t feel that way! You are a very talented soaper, and I’ve often voted for your entries in the past. You still have a little time, which reminds me to remind everyone else:
THE ENTRY THREAD IS DUE TO CLOSE ~26 HOURS from the time-stamp of this post!
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@Catscankim - the soap is nice! I always envy your white and the way it sets off your colors very crisply. I know you use TD, but do you also use lard? On another note, do you know the Latin name of the whelk? It looks like Busycon carica, the Knobbed Whelk. Lucky you to have those as fossils. I once had a very rare clump of fossilized oyster shells but I gave them to my son.
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Yes, this is a lard bar @ 50%, CO OO and castor. Just a basic bar. I don't go too crazy when I am making a challenge soap. I didn't use too much TD this time, just a pfffft pfffft instead of a pffffffffffft pffft LOL.
I posted pictures of the shells on a forum of a bunch of fossil enthusiasts. I will have to see if I can find the forum and I can tell you exactly what they said about it. I hated to hit and run with one post, but that was all I was really there for LOL. So I said thank you and never went back. Egads I hate it when ppl do that LOL.
It might be a Busycon contrarium, which is an extinct species that exists in the fossil record in Florida, including the Lake Okeechobee area. If it's an extant species, then maybe a Lightning Whelk, as those are everywhere around here. : D
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Just found this from the Fossil Forum in reply to my post. I posted more pictures but nobody responded.
It looks like Busycon carica. It is a species that ranges from Lower Pleistocene to recent, but today's population does not reach much further south than Cape Canaveral. I have never collected the species in the Caloosahatchee, but it could be from the Nashua, Bermont or Fort Thompson. Is there any other shells found with it?
It looks like Busycon carica. It is a species that ranges from Lower Pleistocene to recent, but today's population does not reach much further south than Cape Canaveral. I have never collected the species in the Caloosahatchee, but it could be from the Nashua, Bermont or Fort Thompson. Is there any other shells found with it?
Wow the lather on both soaps I made for this month's challenge is so wonderful. @AliOop I checked the lather on my Apple crisp soap I made with Colloidal Oats in it and the lather is even better then the first time I checked it, it is so wonderful. I think I'm going to like using colloidal oatmeal.
Thanks! They’re also found in Virginia.
Geez, every entry is unique and stands alone that choosing three favorites is going to be a mind-thrashing tasks.
I love lightning whelks ~ it's my understanding that they are the only species that is "left handed", meaning when you are looking at the opening of the whelk, it curves in from the left. All other types of spiral species curve in from the right. And, well, birds of a feather and all that ~ lefties stick together
