The yellow has started to fade in the first (high olive/avocado) soaps, thank goodness!
A curious thing that I have noticed is that the pour pattern is visible on the cut face of the curing soap now, in a similar manner to a high-low water CP soap. These bars did have slightly different water amounts in each portion, so this process must continue past gelling (the soap was zap free when it was poured).
I will try and take some photo's of it in the natural light (it's dark here at the moment), for you to see.
(I quite like the effect!)
I've also got another test batch to make this week, so I'll load up all of the photo's at once.
In another thread, I read that fluid HP soaps warp as they cure ... I am guessing this would be because they have extra liquids to make them fluid?
Does anyone know roughly how long warping takes to appear in those fluid-pour HP soaps?
I anticipate these SVHP soaps will not warp (there was no extra water or additives in the recipe to make it fluid), but time will tell (another thing to add to my checklist, thank-you! ).
A curious thing that I have noticed is that the pour pattern is visible on the cut face of the curing soap now, in a similar manner to a high-low water CP soap. These bars did have slightly different water amounts in each portion, so this process must continue past gelling (the soap was zap free when it was poured).
I will try and take some photo's of it in the natural light (it's dark here at the moment), for you to see.
(I quite like the effect!)
I've also got another test batch to make this week, so I'll load up all of the photo's at once.
In another thread, I read that fluid HP soaps warp as they cure ... I am guessing this would be because they have extra liquids to make them fluid?
Does anyone know roughly how long warping takes to appear in those fluid-pour HP soaps?
I anticipate these SVHP soaps will not warp (there was no extra water or additives in the recipe to make it fluid), but time will tell (another thing to add to my checklist, thank-you! ).