Tilted Stripe first try - Absinthe greens and yellow

[Seawolfe]

I wanted to try the greens I have and a yellow, and my new anise EO. This is a basic bastile, and the colors I used were French green clay on the bottom, the stripes were anatto for the yellow, and chromium green oxide, and the top is a nettle infusion. I'd gone a bit beyond a thin trace, as you can see by the height of the swirl hearts on top. So I'm not sure the stripes won't be blobby, but the surprise is half the fun. The smell is lovely, like an absinthe cocktail, or a Pastis.

 

[neeners]

pretty!!! the textured top is nice. waiting game is terrible, isn't it?

and my tilted tiger stripe attempt, the batter got a little thick and it still worked out, so I'm going to say I'm sure yours will look great too!!

 

[maya]

My stripes are so wobbly! I love it that way, I am sure yours will be loverly!

 

[eyeroll]

That is super cute. How did your anise EO behave? I have some I've been wanting to try.

 

[Seawolfe]

That is super cute. How did your anise EO behave? I have some I've been wanting to try.

I think the anise behaved really well. I'm sure the thickening was due to me going past emulsion into trace, fiddling with all the colors for a bit and then mixing them into medium trace.

I will say that I think this batch will want more than 24 hours, maybe almost 48 to cut. That seems longer than my usual, could the anise be doing that? It's 22 hours now and seems stickier than usual. It's 5% castor, 25% CO and 75% OO with 8% SF.

Oh and I forgot to mention, after the tangent in the tussah silk thread, I did add some belly fur fluff from my big grey cat to the lye water, just for fun :mrgreen:

 

[Ellacho]

Nicely done! Before, I did not like anise EO but I've grown to like it. Somehow I always use charcoal powder when I add anise EO.

 

[seven]

Cut cut cut!

 

[The Efficacious Gentleman]

CUT CUT CUT CUT

 

[Seawolfe]

It only went through gel last night!! I saw it start and stuffed it over the heater pilot light to help it along. Thats the slowest Ive ever seen (in all my 15 batches...)
Ill cut tonight and maaaaaybe show you pictures

 

[Sinful7]

I'm joining in the angry mob.. Cut cut cut! The top is so pretty

 

[vidahlia]

You're more patient than I am! I almost always cut at least one bar out just to peek. Even if i know Its not ready

 

[Seawolfe]

Im not being patient! It was still sticky and pasty when I checked last! I wouldn't be cutting, Id be scooping!

 

[neeners]

sigh....silly soap. they don't harden when we want them to, do they????

 

[heather s]

Pretty color combo! Very Spring timey

 

[athallr]

Very pretty colors!

 

[Seawolfe]

Wow that took a crazy long time to firm up and stop being soggy & squishy. Almost 3 full days to cut on a basic Bastille recipe. As you can see I didn't get stripes so much as tapered blobs, but I like it

 

[neeners]

Pretty!!!!!

 

[coffeetime]

Did the cat fur dissolve fully in the lye???

 

[Sinful7]

Awesome!

 

[Seawolfe]

Did the cat fur dissolve fully in the lye???

It did indeed! I think it's important to use the fine underbelly fluff