FlybyStardancer
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I am absolutely floored by how this castile came out! All-natural colorants (infusions of alkanet, annatto, and madder root, plus sea clay for the fourth color). Poured at a super-thin trace, in a tilted tiger stripe pattern in a column mold. Everything kept happening a lot faster than I thought it would for a castile. Of course, I soaped while the lye water was still hot (a bit over 150F), and the lye water itself had equal weight water to the lye and citric acid in it, with added liquid SL. The rest of the water (to make a 40% "solution") was mixed with a tablespoon of milk powder and added after I hit trace, before it was split into colors.
I loosely covered it and it definitely gelled because I got a bit of alien brains on top. LOL I also swear I tried to keep the four color stripes even (two seconds at the beginning and end of the column, three seconds each in the middle), and I poured the four colors in the same order over and over. It sure doesn't look like it, though! And amazingly, it was at perfect cutting texture just 24 hours after making it!
Also, bonus pictures of the beer soap I made on Monday!
ETA: In the top picture, those are the colors pre-soap batter. They are in order from let to right: annatto, madder, alkanet, WSP sea clay.
I loosely covered it and it definitely gelled because I got a bit of alien brains on top. LOL I also swear I tried to keep the four color stripes even (two seconds at the beginning and end of the column, three seconds each in the middle), and I poured the four colors in the same order over and over. It sure doesn't look like it, though! And amazingly, it was at perfect cutting texture just 24 hours after making it!
Also, bonus pictures of the beer soap I made on Monday!
ETA: In the top picture, those are the colors pre-soap batter. They are in order from let to right: annatto, madder, alkanet, WSP sea clay.
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