What soapy thing have you done today?

[mintle]

Yesterday I had a soap seize (or something of this kind). I have made a soap with quite a lot of hard oils (incl. soy wax) and used lye concentration at 39%. I also used sea/fish collagen (? just to see what happens hehe), a new scent Milk FO and some powdered coconut milk. The lye solution and oils were quite warm when I mixed them, 10 seconds of blending and weeee I ended up with a terribly thick trace, or a strange plastic-like mass (that did not cling to the sides of my container, slippery thing), very hot. I panicked and hopelessly added some distilled water, mixed with spatula (the plastic soap absorbed the water very well) and spooned this mass into my mold - even managed to texture the top. It gelled like crazy, though and I had to remove all insulation.

Today I have unmoulded (expecting a disaster such as caustic water pool, separation etc) and the soap is great.

This is the first time experience for me; I had soap on a stick once and I had some serious ricing twice, but the plastic soap? :roll:

 

[seven]

just finished whipping a small tester batch of green tea body butter. smells so yummy!

 

[Sagebrush]

Got a 50-bar order out in the mail to a friend that I'd been putting off. Whew!

 

[dalewaite48]

Made a new soap called Cedar-Wood & Baking Soda. It turned out great see picture, and is a great man's soap.

 

[jules92207]

Been playing with HP again a bit, I learned to soap by HP but since learning about CP haven't been doing it much. Made three HP batches with WSP Beach, Pineapple Cilantro, and a lime and spearmint eo blend.

Also made BB OMH with coconut milk, baby oatmeal and local honey.

Almost forgot I made a BB Dragon's Blood salt bar with the red and black sea salt I bought last week. Sat overnight and by morning was so hard hubs had to saw the slices with a braided wire! That is one ugly bar!

 

[grayceworks]

I diluted one of my experimental batches of CP LS. And took over another entire closet for my soaping stuff. Umm. Well, I cleaned out several shelves and drawers elsewhere for the towels and linens that used to be in the closet, and they're much more convenient now, so I think that makes up for me stealing the closet for my soaping supplies. And it got a lot of them out of the living room and off the kitchen counter, so hubby didn't object overly much. Not that he would ever deny me anyhow... I'm too cute.

 

[seven]

i made 3 batches of soap today. all are for special orders. the 1st one is an unscented, goatmilk baby soap. 2nd one is rose geranium, 3rd one is jasmine. i hope all turn out okay.

 

[jules92207]

I made a geranium and bergamot soap with rose kaolin clay and I think it is my prettiest batch yet. So excited!

Next I think I will try geranium, litsea and lavender. I am loving this geranium eo!

 

[seven]

insomnia is here, and so of course i gotta cook something in the kitchen. body scrub this time, using my triple butters mp base + whipped body butter (which i hate coz it's too **** greasy and thick) + glycerin + swa + grapeseed + a mixture of brown sugar, white sugar, coffee, and baking soda + preservative.

i first melted the mp base + whipped body butter, then whipped it till it doubles the size. put everything else in, and voila! i quite like the consistency so far, but this recipe needs a bit of tweaking definitely. i'm gonna take a mini shower at 3AM just to test this scrub, ha!

eta: well whadda ya know, i just made myself a foaming body scrub, lol. i added some unscented liquid soap to make the texture more workable and it lathers beautifully. soap + scrub all in one!

 

[seven]

time for soap cake again! raspberry rose for tonight. i'm waiting for the lye water to cool down to make the icing. cake and embeds are ready..

 

[dalewaite48]

I made 3 new foaming pump soaps, Passion-fruit Grava, Fresh Lemon, and Good Morning. And then made new batch of Men's Cedarwood & Baking Soda.

 

[LuckyStar]

Currently waiting for the water to come on in my building so i can wash my equipment up in preparation for my newest goat milk soap

 

[cmzaha]

i really really REALLY do not like CPOP. I cut my soaps, and my CPOP one is wet and weird (made it 2 days ago) and the green clay is no longer green...some icky brown. this is the 2nd time I've made this soap, and this one looks nothing like the first one. blah!!! I also used pomace OO this time, and I do not like working with pomace. argh!!

my rasta soap turned out great though. I'm very happy about that...except too much lemongrass and not enough patchouli... oh well.

now...I have frozen carrot juice to use up. not sure what scents to use with that yet. i'll have to decide soon.....

I hear ya...I hate CPOP also.

 

[jules92207]

I stalked the forum. I started a new job this week so I have been too busy and tired to do any real soaping. Feeling soap deprived but also so happy to be in a new job.

 

[neeners]

I'm relocating countries, and putting various things into storage. the soaps I'm keeping here for now will go into storage. I'm sad I won't get to "visit" with my soap babies, and worried they'll still cure find in their box (each scent is individually wrapped, and in a plastic open air box then will be wrapped with a towel in hopes that the salt air won't melt my soaps).

I also had made 2 batches last Friday (yes....leaving TODAY) b/c I couldn't bear to dump the frozen carrot juice from our backyard carrots and last of my goat's milk down the drain, and needed to use the sea water I collected.

ya....totally crazy soap lady.

 

[dalewaite48]

Had my first major oops. I made a batch of Cedarwood soap and the two colors are separated by a thin layer of walnut shell powder. Well I guess I should have followed my directions better as it says to lay down a THIN layer of the powder and then pour top layer on next. When I took my soap out of the mold the two layers separated completely. I was able to save the batch by cleaning up both layers and chopping up and heating them in my oven and re-pouring into a mold. It actually turned out ok, just not quite as smooth.

 

[LuckyStar]

Threw out a batch of goat milk soap that wound up with lye pockets *tear* and made a salt bar to cheer myself up, lol.

 

[seven]

I hear ya...I hate CPOP also.

me three, hate cpop!

 

[Sagebrush]

me three, hate cpop!

I read that: "3CPO." I know...Star Wars nerd

 

[KodaijinYurei]

I was able to make my second ever batch of soap today! Also saw that Bed Bath and Beyond was selling silicone cooking tools that look similar to the ones on BrambleBerry. I know what my next BB&B coupons are going to!