What soapy thing have you done today?
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Dawni
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Oooh shiny shimmery! Nice
steffamarie
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Planed over 100 bars this afternoon in preparation for my shrink bags to get here tomorrow. Now I have 9 sandwich bags of soap curls for embeds later!!
I/we frankly never tried the waters. People often give me items thinking I can use them in soap. I just never researched it. My 'go to' CP soap recipes and lotion bar recipes don't call for waters so I gave them to someone who can make use of them.
Pretty!
It is a pain, but set them aside for a day or two, and all the gunk will turn to soap, so you can wash it away. Little Jell-O shot plastic cups are great for mixing prefixing colors. Then you just chunk ‘em
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Some of you may have ascertained that I’m not much for sitting around the house. Well, I’m stuck at home today with a wine-tasting-related injury (Yeah, I’m making that a thing.) I’m supposed to be lying about with my foot elevated, so what did I do to while away the hours?
- Lined pretty much every mold in my house
- Trimmed up my hotel soaps and almost every other untrimmed soap on the shelf
- Masterbatched lye
- Ordered mica and castor oil
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May I borrow that? A wine-tasting related injury?? Lovely soap!
Wine-tasting related injuries go unreported over 90% of the time. #wineshaming
LilianNoir
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Made a (small) master batch of lye. My first time making a solution (unaided) and I guess my first time master batching! Hoping to FINALLY make soap this Friday! Going to try two different recipes I think.
Dawni
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Got everything ready for my third attempt at a corner pour.
Hopefully third time's the charm.
No additives and I'm gonna hand mix the heck out of this even if it takes me all afternoon coz I don't want a repeat of the last two times when I could barely pour....
Edit: I think I did it!
A few of you might notice what big mistake I made lol
Hopefully third time's the charm.
No additives and I'm gonna hand mix the heck out of this even if it takes me all afternoon coz I don't want a repeat of the last two times when I could barely pour....
Edit: I think I did it!
A few of you might notice what big mistake I made lol
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Wow! Way to go Dawni!
I got my sea water out of the freezer and boiled it all, passed it through a coffee filter ( thanks to @SaltedFig for that idea) - do you know how hard it is to find coffee filters these days? It's all this barista coffee we all drink nowadays. I then weighed out small portions and put it into little plastic baggies in the freezer so I can use it for future soaps.
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penelopejane
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Made a small single soap tester for indigo in soap.
Made a whole batch using same proportion or indigo and have a midnight coloured soap (about 10 times darker than the tester).
Made another 1/2 batch and reduced the indigo to a 1/4 of the amount uses in tester and it is still too dark but is now green.
Not the colour of any of the testers.
Am hoping it will cure pale.
Natural colours will send me around the bend.
Made a whole batch using same proportion or indigo and have a midnight coloured soap (about 10 times darker than the tester).
Made another 1/2 batch and reduced the indigo to a 1/4 of the amount uses in tester and it is still too dark but is now green.
Not the colour of any of the testers.
Am hoping it will cure pale.
Natural colours will send me around the bend.
penelopejane
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Sorry I missed a few days, why are you doing this?
I've had the sea water for ages PJ - just hadn't got around to doing it yet. It all started with Zany's No-Slime Castile with the faux seawater, and i thought - well, why do I need faux when the sea is only 35 minutes drive away? SO I collected a large bottleful. I am heading out there again on Friday and will probably get some more. Kinda gimmicky i guess - but I like the thought of having real seawater in my soap.
penelopejane
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No it’s not gimmicky - a lot of people do it me included. Why the boiling though? I thought seawater would be pretty antimicrobial as is?
Dawni
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Lols me too but I love em! In the soap I posted above, the grey was supposed to be a darker blue, but was actually supposed to be purple considering it's ratanjot, which is similar to alkanet.
I have to review my infusions.. Maybe I'm using too little of the colorant.
The annatto worked well though, and it's only been a week
You gonna show us the soaps @penelopejane?
I think it looks great. What’s the brownish green with specks in it? I looks like goldenseal to me.
Dawni
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Thank you! It's an infusion of moringa and neem powders in olive oil, with added homemade moringa powder
Lin19687
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I am impatiently waiting for a soap to cure a bit more so I can test it out.
Worst part of the whole thing !
Worst part of the whole thing !
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