artemis
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Also, playing with fragrances. I have a bunch of q-tips, zip-locs, and the fragrance bottles. It makes my head spin! I'm glad it's a good day to have the windows open!
I don't add extra water to the soap no matter how much salt I use - either brine or salt in the batter. For brine soap I dissolve the salt in part of the water required for the recipe.
Oh, my bad. I meant the extra water I need to dilute the 50% lye solution, not extra water for the salt. I ended up using aloe liquid, salt and honey. I SBd the black too much because it was semi-solid when I finally got it in the mold. I don't think my spoon swirl is going to be very pretty.
I decided to make a quick batch of soap, planning to add activated charcoal to the top half and have a black and white bar. I should have known it was going to be one of those days when I measured the AC and promptly spilled it on the counter. Then I mixed the soap, which seemed to trace pretty fast, so I poured half the batter in and mixed in the AC, all was good until I moved my stick blender and knocked over the newly mixed black half of my soap. I called for help from DH who was very near, he came in and helped me scrape the batter back into the bowl. I mixed some yellow color into the other half because the soap looked pretty yellow to begin with, unfortunately the soap was setting up pretty quickly so I tried to hurry, already rattled from the two spills. I got the yellow (hopefully) mixed in, poured it into the mold and as I was scraping the batter out of the pan I flung some all over the wall, the coffee maker, the jar of tea and the counter. DH was cleaning that up as I was getting the rest of the batter poured in. I finally got the yellow part in the mold and scraped the black half in and all looks really good, went to continue my clean up of the disaster area and found that I had also drug the cord from the SB through the black soap batter.....haha, it was a pretty stressful soaping!
I decided to make a quick batch of soap, planning to add activated charcoal to the top half and have a black and white bar. I should have known it was going to be one of those days when I measured the AC and promptly spilled it on the counter.
I finally got the yellow part in the mold and scraped the black half in and all looks really good, went to continue my clean up of the disaster area and found that I had also drug the cord from the SB through the black soap batter.....haha, it was a pretty stressful soaping!
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