Today's soapy thing was to make vegan soaps for my hairdresser who wants to sell them at her station. Great time to make my first ever batch of ZNSC, right? I went with the bastile version with 85% light OO, 15% CO, and 5% castor, plus sorbitol for bubbles.
Used the heat transfer method to melt the CO since I was too impatient to wait for the faux seawater-lye solution to cool. Added the other oils, and batter was at 110 when I had the bright (!) idea to use an accelerating fragrance so that it wouldn't take all that OO so long to trace.
Right. Five seconds in, aaaannd.... pudding! Y'all thought the TCS challenge last month was a messy thing, but tonight's session ended with soap everywhere! There was plopping into the cavity molds with the spatula. There was swirling it around to smoosh the batter into the details (no time to run for the paint brush). There was banging, smacking, and soap slopping all over the mold, the table, the soap bowl, just everywhere! I'm a scraper who hates to waste soap batter, but it was a losing battle.
Anyway, these naughty children were finally tucked into bed for the night. Let's hope they are little angels in the morning.
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(I'm Irish so I'm allowed say things like that
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annoyingly the liquid dye which doesn't like to cooperate continued not cooperating... At least I'm narrowing down the problem, seems the yellow is at least partly stable in CP but the blue has vanished entirely.
