This months challenge is ... Travel Soap!
How many times have you gone on holidays and wanted to take your own soap with you? Or walked into a public restroom, to be faced with an empty liquid soap container, or a bar that you probably don't want to be touching ... or nothing at all (just water from the tap) to clean your hands with?
What if you had a single (or limited) use soap with you? What would it look like? Would it be a simple pile of cubes, or a thin wafer cut from your usual soap, or something adventurous?
This challenge is about designing a Travel Soap.
Rules for this month's challenge
1. Any soap can be used
(Cold Process, Melt & Pour, Rebatch, KOH soap paste ... whatever you like!).
2. Any method can be used to make your travel soaps
(soap dough, soap shavings, rebatch, molding ... any method at all!).
3. Any extra ingredients and containers can be utilized to make your travel soaps
(did you know nougat paper makes great dissolving paper for soap petals?)
Whatever you imagine Travel Soap could be, that's what this challenge is about!
All that is required is that it is a soap you can carry with you and use when there is none.
(The only soap that is not allowed is a bar soap that you need to put away wet - that is just not what we want in a handy travel soap
)
Now for the usual rules ...
General Rules:
1. The only members eligible to vote are those with their names on the sign up list - regardless of whether or not you have submitted an entry.
2. This month’s voting will be password locked. Passwords will be PM'ed to registered participants ONLY. So please check your PMs when the voting begins.
3. No posting your entry photos until the entry thread is made. Non entry photos are very welcome!
4. You are allowed to change your entry photo up until the entry thread closes. So if you decide after you post your entry you want another try, and you like the second better, you can change it up until the deadline.
SMF Challenge General Rules:
1. To enter you must have a minimum of 50 posts and have been a member for a month
(sorry, but no exceptions to this)
2. Please add your name to the sign up list if you wish to participate
(you don’t have to enter a soap at the end if you don’t feel happy with what you have produced)
3. The challenge thread should be used to upload pictures of any of your challenge attempts and to ask for advice and discuss the technique with other members.
4. Constructive criticism is welcomed, but please try to keep your comments polite.
5. Competition entries must be uploaded to the separate entry thread before the closing date.
6. After the closing date, the winning entry will be chosen using Survey Monkey.
The winner will be announced October 3oth, 2018. There is no prize attached to this challenge.
7. If you fail to make the challenge deadline, you are still welcome to upload your soap onto the thread, but your entry will not be eligible for voting. We still love to see anything you have produced.
8. Even though there is no prize, this is still a competition. If your entry is deemed not to fulfill the general rules or the rules specific to the challenge in any way, then you will be given the opportunity to amend your entry. If this is not possible then your entry will not be included in the voting.
9. All the challenge mods reserve the right to have the final say on whether a soap is eligible for voting.
Challenge Timeline:
I hope you join in and make a few Travel Soaps! Thanks for participating and please sign up using the sign up sheet below.
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How many times have you gone on holidays and wanted to take your own soap with you? Or walked into a public restroom, to be faced with an empty liquid soap container, or a bar that you probably don't want to be touching ... or nothing at all (just water from the tap) to clean your hands with?
What if you had a single (or limited) use soap with you? What would it look like? Would it be a simple pile of cubes, or a thin wafer cut from your usual soap, or something adventurous?
This challenge is about designing a Travel Soap.
Rules for this month's challenge
1. Any soap can be used
(Cold Process, Melt & Pour, Rebatch, KOH soap paste ... whatever you like!).
2. Any method can be used to make your travel soaps
(soap dough, soap shavings, rebatch, molding ... any method at all!).
3. Any extra ingredients and containers can be utilized to make your travel soaps
(did you know nougat paper makes great dissolving paper for soap petals?)
Whatever you imagine Travel Soap could be, that's what this challenge is about!
All that is required is that it is a soap you can carry with you and use when there is none.
(The only soap that is not allowed is a bar soap that you need to put away wet - that is just not what we want in a handy travel soap
)Now for the usual rules ...
General Rules:
1. The only members eligible to vote are those with their names on the sign up list - regardless of whether or not you have submitted an entry.
2. This month’s voting will be password locked. Passwords will be PM'ed to registered participants ONLY. So please check your PMs when the voting begins.
3. No posting your entry photos until the entry thread is made. Non entry photos are very welcome!
4. You are allowed to change your entry photo up until the entry thread closes. So if you decide after you post your entry you want another try, and you like the second better, you can change it up until the deadline.
SMF Challenge General Rules:
1. To enter you must have a minimum of 50 posts and have been a member for a month
(sorry, but no exceptions to this)
2. Please add your name to the sign up list if you wish to participate
(you don’t have to enter a soap at the end if you don’t feel happy with what you have produced)
3. The challenge thread should be used to upload pictures of any of your challenge attempts and to ask for advice and discuss the technique with other members.
4. Constructive criticism is welcomed, but please try to keep your comments polite.
5. Competition entries must be uploaded to the separate entry thread before the closing date.
6. After the closing date, the winning entry will be chosen using Survey Monkey.
The winner will be announced October 3oth, 2018. There is no prize attached to this challenge.
7. If you fail to make the challenge deadline, you are still welcome to upload your soap onto the thread, but your entry will not be eligible for voting. We still love to see anything you have produced.
8. Even though there is no prize, this is still a competition. If your entry is deemed not to fulfill the general rules or the rules specific to the challenge in any way, then you will be given the opportunity to amend your entry. If this is not possible then your entry will not be included in the voting.
9. All the challenge mods reserve the right to have the final say on whether a soap is eligible for voting.
Challenge Timeline:
- The Challenge thread is open! Add your name to the list to join in and discuss the Challenge.
- October 21st: Entry thread opens.
- October 28th: Entry thread closes at 11:59 pm GMT.
- October 29th: Survey Monkey password will be sent to all entrants to cast their votes.
- October 30th: The winners will be announced in the Entry thread!
I hope you join in and make a few Travel Soaps! Thanks for participating and please sign up using the sign up sheet below.
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