What soapy thing have you done today?

[LittleCrazyWolf]

Last night I prepped my beer for the beer soap that I hope to get around to making today.

 

[jules92207]

Perfect colors for the FO. I bet it smells delicious, that sounds like a good mix. Jules, have you tried Sweetcake's Sweet Yellow Pear? I hardly like any fruit smells, and that one makes you feel like you have pear juice dripping off your chin, it is v., v. good.

Haven't done it yet, but need to go to Home Depot and buy wire to start practicing for SMF challenge no. 2!

Oh no, another fo to try... That sounds delicious!

I haven't read the next challenge yet but you have me very intrigued...

 

[skayc1]

I cleaned the soaps that i cut last Tuesday, & I'll be preparing for tomorrow mornings soap making. I'll be using a strawberry FO from Aztec.

 

[not_ally]

Jules, I don't think the official post is up yet, Saponista just mentioned at one point. It will be inverted stamping, like this: http://auntieclaras.com/2014/04/tutorial-inverted-stamp-technique-lattice-tops-more/

 

[TwystedPryncess]

@ally... I am probably overworking it way too much!

I'm making laundry soap today---we ran slap out. It's bad when the 20 year old baby looks at you like :roll: with a box of Fab in her hands and says "I can't believe I had to go buy this crap".

The next challenge you guys are doing looks right up my alley! I'm so hoping to get some time and energy to participate in that one! :clap:

 

[TeresaT]

I cleaned up the soap stuff from the last batch and master batched 10# of oils today then split it into 2# containers. I spent waaaay too much time on this forum reading about soap. Watched the Castile demo video someone posted, then measured out 2# OO to try my own slimy adventure. (I don't get any slime with my Bastille, so I'm confused by the slime talk.).

 

[not_ally]

I got the wire at the dollar store! I am going to stare at it, perplexed, and hope inspiration strikes ...

Also I am going to make a dark batch so that I can practice stamping w/my new Omar stamps! I will post them in one of Seven's stamping threads so you guys realize how much difference real artistry makes in that area, her's are stupendous.

 

[galaxyMLP]

Funny, now that I've made soap w high lard, I do find regular Castile slimy! But, I didn't know what people were talking about before then.

 

[not_ally]

Lard really is soaper's gold ...

 

[traderbren]

It was a "family and friends come to visit" day, so I gave out quite a few bars of soap to my visitors, but I'm most excited about the shampoo bar I gave to my mom. I imagine she hopes to "bait" my dad, who has severe psoriasis. I have it mildly in my scalp, and have it under control since switching to natural shampoos. Dad has made comments about my bar soap making his leg psoriasis clear up, without actually realizing that's what's happening... He has a severe case, and I think my mom has noticed my soap is helping a bit, but you can't tell him anything. She was complaining of dry hair, so I gave her one of my (Genny's) shampoo bars and a conditioner bar to try. They also got a few bars of soap to take home, and a lip balm.
Our friends came for beers and barbecue, and already laid claim to half a loaf of cucumber melon, and a handful of other bars from recent batches. The looks on faces when I said 3 weeks AT LEAST was humorous...
I also bought a big 3L tin of OO at the store, so I have a shampoo bar modification to try tomorrow.
But for now, I watch Sherlock on DVR.

 

[skayc1]

measured & prepared everything except my micas for tomorrow mornings soap making. gonna use my hanger tool that I made the other day!

 

[jules92207]

Jules, I don't think the official post is up yet, Saponista just mentioned at one point. It will be inverted stamping, like this: http://auntieclaras.com/2014/04/tutorial-inverted-stamp-technique-lattice-tops-more/

Oh no way! That will be awesome sauce!

 

[dalewaite48]

A New Embed Soap

A know Christmas is a long way off yet but starting playing around with a soap I think I will call Christmas Cheer. Let me know what you think of it. I made a melt & pour embed soap first. Then made up the soap that will go around it. Poured the bottom layer of white colored soap into the mold first and let it set up enough so it would support the red embed and then poured the rest of the white soap to go around the two sides and the top.

 

[not_ally]

I think it looks really cool, Dale. Perfectly embedded, too.

B/t/w, I like your countertop/backsplash combo. V. comtemporary and elegant!

 

[skayc1]

Made a strawberry scented soap I swirled the soap with my hanger tool, now how it's going to look, I do not know, cause I didn't attempt a butterfly swirl.

 

[not_ally]

Have to sniff and make notes on my gigantic sandalwood sampler project. The sniffing is fun, but the note-taking, the most useful part, is onerous with having to do so many of them. I keep just looking at them and thinking "tomorrow."

 

[not_ally]

Made the notes on the sandalwood testers. As it turns out, is hard to come up w/different words to describe the same basic scent over and over, if you are not a pro

Also made the dark batch I wanted to use for testing my stamps. It was experimental, I included dead sea mud and more AC than I would normally use. Also CPOP'd (although that is my norm.) A couple of hours after taking it out of the oven, it is getting humpy on top, like a loaf of bread. I am sufficiently soap-geeky that I think that is really cool, have stuck it in the freezer, and am waiting w/baited breath.

 

[nsmar4211]

*passes the ground coffee to not_ally* here, that'll clear out your sniffer .

Does poking your sample blob of soap count? I used my bowl scrapings to make a blob of my recent pine tar experiment, figuring when that hardens THEN I can touch the other ones....nope, not ready...

 

[not_ally]

Nsmar, I want to know how your pine tar soap come out well. More on the smell side, but if I had it right there, I would be poking it, too. I am going to make another batch of dark/mono colored soap tonight so that I have lots of soap for practicing stamping, good thing lard is cheap ...

 

[skayc1]

Cut my Soaps- first the Bastille Carrot Buttermilk that I tried to keep from gelling gave me a partial gel.

and I sucessfully got my taiwan swirl look, using a hanger tool, I'm calling it a hidden taiwan swirl.