I am glad to be home again. But my back was giving me so much trouble yesterday from all the time we spent in the car that I didn't get much done. I cut 4 - 1 pound loaves of test soaps I made before we left. I weighed a few bars of soap from different batches & recorded weights. None have stopped losing weight yet., but none are even a month old yet. I carried all those back upstairs & brought down some 100% zero fat Coconut Oil Soap to grate, but my back was so bad by that time I took a muscle relaxant and lay down for a bit. Did not wake up until 5:28 am today. This morning my back is feeling better, but I plan to take it slow.
While on my trip, I did felt several soaps, but did not finish the ball-team logo on any of them. I just did the background base color. Our days were so long, that by the time I got to that project in the evenings I was pretty tired. I did felt a couple of other soaps and discovered it may not be a good idea to buy reject MP soaps from anyone. It fell apart when I cut it in half and then started falling apart while felting. I have never felted MP soap before, but I did know it doesn't last very long, so I should not have felted it in the first place, but I had already started, so I kept up with it. The reason it fell apart, I guess was the design of the soap, which was sort of like multiple embeds in the soap that came apart in chunks, first when I cut it in half and then when I got the roving wet to do the wet felting. So lesson learned. I had originally purchased that one MP soap in a 'clearance' basket at a Soap store on a previous trip and had since decided I don't like the look of it nor the scent. I thought maybe felting it would at least improve its appearance, even if it didn't improve the scent. Not sure what to do with it now as it's just a felted ball of clumpy bits of soap. I'll probably use it in the shower and it'll be gone in a few days anyway. It lathers very nicely and the skin feels good after using it, so it won't be a total loss. Then I'll wash the felted wool and toss it in the dryer to use as a dryer ball.
While on my trip, I did felt several soaps, but did not finish the ball-team logo on any of them. I just did the background base color. Our days were so long, that by the time I got to that project in the evenings I was pretty tired. I did felt a couple of other soaps and discovered it may not be a good idea to buy reject MP soaps from anyone. It fell apart when I cut it in half and then started falling apart while felting. I have never felted MP soap before, but I did know it doesn't last very long, so I should not have felted it in the first place, but I had already started, so I kept up with it. The reason it fell apart, I guess was the design of the soap, which was sort of like multiple embeds in the soap that came apart in chunks, first when I cut it in half and then when I got the roving wet to do the wet felting. So lesson learned. I had originally purchased that one MP soap in a 'clearance' basket at a Soap store on a previous trip and had since decided I don't like the look of it nor the scent. I thought maybe felting it would at least improve its appearance, even if it didn't improve the scent. Not sure what to do with it now as it's just a felted ball of clumpy bits of soap. I'll probably use it in the shower and it'll be gone in a few days anyway. It lathers very nicely and the skin feels good after using it, so it won't be a total loss. Then I'll wash the felted wool and toss it in the dryer to use as a dryer ball.
