Where should I start? And this is just over the past few days... (and all with my basic formulas)
Ran out of olive oil so bought an off brand at the grocery store. 4 batches later I realize it must be erated because they never hardened. Trash.
Olive oil-free recipe. 2 batches set to go. Add FO to oils, add lye mixture. My SB isn't working. Wait, it's the outlet. The only one in the kitchen/ Fine, mix by hand. Pour. Watch it rice in the mold. 2 batches of oily, riced, lye heavy soap-ish stuff. Trash.
Got new olive oil. Made up a batch of my Violet Lime - a lovely purple color. Came out magenta. Sigh. Not trash, but not saleable.
Mixed up 4 sets of lye solution for my next round of soaps, and one set of oils for my Limoncello. Went to bed.
Tonight - don't know for which recipe I made up the lye solutions, so don't know the strength. No problem, I weighed them The amounts came half way between the two possibilities. Cleaned drains. Lye wasted.
Made up fresh lye solution for the Limoncello. Added the TD to the swirl portion - thickening too fast (outlet is magically working today). Quickly add a dash of my yellow color. Which is actually my ORANGE color. So now I have orange lemon-scented soap. Well, mix in the too thick swirl portion and SB it till a smooth mango color. Fortunately my kids don't know the difference - they think it's Creme-sicle cuz that's what I told them. Not a total loss - add it to the pile for Christmas gifts of the kids schoolmates/teachers. But still, a waste of money.
I don't want to calculate the losses I'm taking this week. It'd make me cry.
And my computer is messed up so I cannot get on Facebook to whine about it.
And I'm out of wine.
Ran out of olive oil so bought an off brand at the grocery store. 4 batches later I realize it must be erated because they never hardened. Trash.
Olive oil-free recipe. 2 batches set to go. Add FO to oils, add lye mixture. My SB isn't working. Wait, it's the outlet. The only one in the kitchen/ Fine, mix by hand. Pour. Watch it rice in the mold. 2 batches of oily, riced, lye heavy soap-ish stuff. Trash.
Got new olive oil. Made up a batch of my Violet Lime - a lovely purple color. Came out magenta. Sigh. Not trash, but not saleable.
Mixed up 4 sets of lye solution for my next round of soaps, and one set of oils for my Limoncello. Went to bed.
Tonight - don't know for which recipe I made up the lye solutions, so don't know the strength. No problem, I weighed them The amounts came half way between the two possibilities. Cleaned drains. Lye wasted.
Made up fresh lye solution for the Limoncello. Added the TD to the swirl portion - thickening too fast (outlet is magically working today). Quickly add a dash of my yellow color. Which is actually my ORANGE color. So now I have orange lemon-scented soap. Well, mix in the too thick swirl portion and SB it till a smooth mango color. Fortunately my kids don't know the difference - they think it's Creme-sicle cuz that's what I told them. Not a total loss - add it to the pile for Christmas gifts of the kids schoolmates/teachers. But still, a waste of money.
I don't want to calculate the losses I'm taking this week. It'd make me cry.
And my computer is messed up so I cannot get on Facebook to whine about it.
And I'm out of wine.
