blucrsr
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I think this picture tells the story. These are the last 4 soaps I poured. I'm hoping the resolution makes it clear which one is done with the new stick blender.
I think this picture tells the story. These are the last 4 soaps I poured. I'm hoping the resolution makes it clear which one is done with the new stick blender.
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What a great idea! I love pomelo! How long did you have to leave it in the oven? How did you know when it was ready to grind?I just tried my ~even split coconut, olive, shea (+ 5% castor) oil soap for the first time. It's only been 4 weeks, but I couldn't wait, so I cut a bar in half for a tester. Nice and hard, decent lather, but I'll withhold judgement for a few more weeks.
The exciting thing is that I added powdered pomelo peel (dried in gas oven that's always warm from the pilot light; powdered in a spice grinder) to part of the batter. And I can smell a little grapefruit-y scent from the lathered soap! I'll definitely experiment with this more.
Nurture Soap@msunnerstood where do you get your enviro holo glitter? I’d like to try a different one than I’m using.
I really like the colors, and I love the little Leprechaun molds.Used a Costco snack carton to create a wider loaf mold so I can take another crack at this month's Challenge Soap.
Unmolded the one that I poured in my TS mold yesterday (pic below). It definitely doesn't have enough of the third color, nor any S-curve. But it smells good, and I do like the colors. @cmzaha you can see I'm still using my leprechaun mold for leftover batter.
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These are beautiful.I've been at my daughter's for 4 days but I was too tired to soap today. Instead I cleaned up a couple of loaves done before I left and rearranged fragrance oils. I tweaked my 'go to' recipe for the Cranberry which is scented with Cranberry from Candora and smells amazing. The second is my failed attempt at the cosmic wave design... it is scented with Peppermint Bark from Candora and if I was blindfolded, I would eat it - it smells just like the real thing!
These are beautiful.
Everyone makes such lovely soap.
Here's the cut of Blueberry Thyme from yesterday.Made my challenge entry, as well as this batch--BB Blueberry Thyme. The orange is actually yellow that morphed. It's changing back already.
They are both gorgeous! I really love the cranberry one, though Nice work!I've been at my daughter's for 4 days but I was too tired to soap today. Instead I cleaned up a couple of loaves done before I left and rearranged fragrance oils. I tweaked my 'go to' recipe for the Cranberry which is scented with Cranberry from Candora and smells amazing. The second is my failed attempt at the cosmic wave design... it is scented with Peppermint Bark from Candora and if I was blindfolded, I would eat it - it smells just like the real thing!
People, people, people! Today was a soapy day but not the one I planned! After watching the zig zag cosmic wave videos 100 times, I felt confident to do it! But then encountered so many challenges. We have a relative that moved in and is quarantining for 14 days in the basement where my soap shop is, so I had to haul up everything to the kitchen (also nervous to use our beautiful new kitchen, plastered everything with newspaper), so nothing was 'in its spot.' Mrs. Zing wanted to soap for her 2nd time so was tutoring her at the same time I was trying to soap. Her trace went to thick like KABOOM (I think it was the shea butter) so I had to regroup her design from an in-the-pot swirl to a plop/spoon swirl. I also based my volume measurements for two soaps on my only 10" loaf so had to scramble for different molds. We were using the same lye/water container and I poured too much into my oils (please don't read my panic-stricken post in another thread, I sound like a crazy man!).
And then I was sooo pleased with my slow stirring and conservative stick-blending in awe that my batter looked like all the YouTube videos. Then just one more 3-second burst.... It went to thin trace. Then even thicker with more stirring of the scents and colorants. So "zig zag" turned into a hanger swirl. Must. Master. Emulsion.
Oh well, I will still have soap and it smells great (anise/peppermint) and the colors look great. I'll be under the gun to enter the challenge tho'!
I think every batch I have made has made me crazy in some way or another.Soap makes us all crazy at some point.
I have made 3 attempts at the challenge using HP and failed lol. Not sure ill try again, but maybe
What a great idea! I love pomelo! How long did you have to leave it in the oven? How did you know when it was ready to grind?
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