Made an avocado purë and kaolin clay soap today. I used one of my most troublesome fragrance oils that is a "moderate accelerator" (The vendor's words, not mine. It's a Speedy Gonzales!) It smells nice but it likes to go lumpy too and it's one of those fragrances where you have about 10 seconds after hitting a slight trace to get it into the mould before it gets mega porridgey and unworkable. I had laid out my battle plans yesterday and carefully thought out my angle of attack and YES!! I tamed the beast!! HA! it went well! The soap was all done gelling in about 30 minutes which just goes to show how furious it was at me knocking the legs out from under it.
Totally unrelated but in line with it being a gooood day today is, that I finally caught the wretched mole that has been tearing up my lawn for months and most recently, my daffodils! You touch my flowers and it's war!!... but I finally gotcha, you little #%&@$!
Btw, where do you people by FO's where you get free samples? I've never get free FO samples ever.
I have gotten for $20 dollars worth of oxides and other goodies once though after a vendor "forgot" to send me my order. That was good day, too.
And thank you so much for the nice comment about the "fruit salad" Soap from Hell, Grayce! But really, it's not a nice soap. It's hideous and obnoxious and better yet... it's now history! LOL It got chopped, sliced, diced and soap-balled out of existence and good riddence to it!
What's worse though is, that that soap has given me a sort of soaper's PTSD and now I can't seem to want to soap with any of those colours anymore, even though it wasn't their fault. That's something I have to get over fast though, since it's Spring and all those pretty olive greens and creams and browns just won't cut it anymore! Gonna try to face down my fears later today and see if I can't fall in love with orange and yellow again.
