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Umm I think I'm addicted to texture tops .....this one I made tonight....the loaf is white confetti...top looks like chocolate....fingers crossed that it turns out good!!!!!
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Will post pics of the cut version soon!!!!
 
Just cut my confetti soap! Probably could have waited a few more hours because the bottom end was still a little soft. The extra poured into the individual molds still isn't quite ready to unmold.

Please forgive the yellowish tones of the individual-molded soaps--that picture was taken under warm lights, unlike the daylight bulb the other one was under. It'll be interesting to see what the final color of the currently-white parts. I used a discoloring fragrance, but with vanilla stabilizer and added some TD.

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I tried my hand at a layered bar, all co, sf at 20% and some sea clay with rosemary eo. Not the best layers but I impressed myself with the top! Never poured that thick of a trace before.

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I cut my first textured top soap....I'm so proud of it it turned out phenomenal!!!! View attachment 12868View attachment 12869

And this is my clay soaps I did a little while ago. View attachment 12870

And here's my red white and blue that turned out pink white and purple...thank goodness it's shampoo for women lolView attachment 12871

They all look great, I especially like the second one. Do remember Not to use the shampoo bar on blond or gray/white or salt & pepper hair, or bleached hair. Red clay can stain hair.
 
Finally cut my last shampoo bar. It was like 3-4 weeks old and still plenty soft. Say: "Too much water!" Just now put a new scent to bed. It's BB's Arabian Spice. I was hoping it would be a replacement for WSP's discontinued Holly Berry. I don't think it is that, but it is very nice. Next I am trying a new (to me) rose scent: BB's English Rose. I'm not terribly impressed oob, but hoping it will be better in CP. It does have good reviews.
 
Wow such pretty soaps ! Love the black and gold one and the bee soaps also, just adorable.
I made a batch of Juniper breeze and then couldn't decide gel or no gel so it was shuffled around from porch to the radiator. I finally decided on gel. Hope it's not to late.
Does anyone else do this?
I can never make up my mind.
 
Thanks! So many beautiful soaps on here!! I haven't cut the black and gold yet, but here is how the busy beeswax turned out. For some reason, the top went all snake skin-y....so I'm gonna coin it, "Snake Skin: Limited Edition". :)

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Shoot, I can't see a single picture on this page :/

ETA yes, now I can! Confused_Penguin, I love those little bees, where did you get them?


I got them from a craft store. They are actually buttons! I make domino pendants in my spare time and use buttons to make my craft. I remembered that I had them and thought it would look great for the picture so I scrambled to get them out of my closet.
 
I had some HO sunflower oil that I bought last year, and some older lard in the fridge. Neither smelled rancid, but I wanted to use them up in a way that wouldn't risk DOS. I remembered DeeAnna did a 70/30 safflower/lard version of that superlye soap, so I took inspiration from her. :D Poured out the sunflower, calculated everything out from there. (Had to add a bit of fresh lard to get it up to 30%, but I'm not complaining!)

I also took advantage of the timing to play with my three color-morphing micas again. I had used them on my two batches of this soap last year. One had stayed true to the powdered mica form (just lighter), the other two had gone through a roller coaster of weird morphs. So far they're only pale. We'll have to see if anything changes... I also played around with scents, mixing two FOs (WSP Ocean Rain, and WSP Spring Rain. They had kinda cancelled out each others ozone-y aspects in the toothpick test, but that doesn't seem to be happening in the soap).
 

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