What soapy thing have you done today?

[kchaystack]

I had never heard of Tyler Durden (have not seen The Fight Club) until a friend who knows about my soaping obsession told me about it the other day. It kind of made me shudder and laugh in a horrified way at the same time (how did he figure out the SAP values for that?)

Lots of trial and error....

 

[Sonya-m]

I cut my failed spin swirl

 

[biarine]

I cut my failed spin swirl

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What a beauty

 

[jules92207]

Lots of trial and error....

Oh the horror... Lol!

 

[FlybyStardancer]

I had never heard of Tyler Durden (have not seen The Fight Club) until a friend who knows about my soaping obsession told me about it the other day. It kind of made me shudder and laugh in a horrified way at the same time (how did he figure out the SAP values for that?)

I haven't watched it either (I know enough about it to know that it is very far from the kinds of movies I enjoy), but I've gotten the fight club jokes from friends, especially when I was first starting out. Thankfully, they've mostly died a natural death at this point.

 

[dillsandwitch]

Had to do my first rebatch today. My plain goats milk soap overheated. I just cant seem to get them to work lately.

I grated it up and dumped it into a saucepan. Added the liquid that seeped out and a good dollop of olive oil just to be sure and cooked it over the smallest lowest gas burner i have. took about 15 mins till it was all smooth and fluid and didnt zap any more. dumped it into a mould and jammed it back into the fridge. What stated out as a nice white soap ended up more of a caramel colour. I was going to add some TD to it but in all honesty I just couldn't be bothered to ...


So over all out of the 11 loaves made over the weekend only 2 were fails and both were the goats milk ones. not bad and no more goats milk for me until i can get my freezer in order to allow soap to fit in it

 

[kchaystack]

Made my nephew a batch to commemorate his earning his green belt. Scented with NG's Green Irish Tweed. It is a black soap with a green stripe in the middle (his dojo's uniform is black). Pics will follow after I cut it tomorrow.

I also took the plunge and signed up for the new Great Cakes soap challenge. I have a small slab mold and this is a perfect reason to break it in.

 

[MorpheusPA]

I made a lard, olive, coconut, and castor soap in bright yellow with an invisible swirl. The scent is lemon-vanilla, and the swirl is already not so invisible as it was when I made this 90 minutes ago.

 

[jules92207]

I tried a new recipe today, wanted to try mango butter and beeswax in my recipe and I also added just a splash of sodium lactate to see how hard I can get my soap. I should have done more research first as I just added a tsp of the SL to my cooled lye water instead of weighing it out. Pretty sure it was such a small amount it wont be problematic, or so I hope. Lesson learned.

Also this is my second batch that has lifted out of my mold while curing. Literally popping out of the mold. I must have gremlins or something.

 

[Luv2Soap]

My hubby just called me to tell me my new flat soap mold is done!!! Inside dimensions: 10 1/2" x 7 3/4" x 3 1/2". I've entered the Great Cakes Soap Challenge and this month it's spin swirls. So, I will need 81.37 oz of oil to fill this sucker up to 2 1/2". VERY EXCITED!!!! I'll post pictures when I get home. I plan on doing my challenge swirl tonight and see how it goes.

 

[galaxyMLP]

Today I made HP goose fat soap. My co worker cooked goose in mid march and gave me 6 oz of the fat (it was clean and unseasoned. I made a 70:20:10 goose fat: coconut oil: mango butter soap with 5% SF. I will be giving him the soap (I'm keeping one for myself!!) I tried a bit and it is so bubbly! (I'm used to my Castile soap!)

It is scented with grapefruit, orange, and a little eucalyptus and sage.

The swirl/ layering was supposed to be orange but it turned out pinkish brown. I think it looks like pieces of meat now (when I was cleaning it up all of the soap curls looked like bacon strips!!)

Now to wait 4 weeks!

 

[Luv2Soap]

So pretty Galaxy! Looks a lot like pink marble to me - lovely!

 

[galaxyMLP]

Thanks! Its great to be able to post something I just made and get feedback right away. I think it smells divine I just hope that all of the fragrance doesn't disappear.

 

[Luv2Soap]

Here it is - my new flat mold that my husband made for me. Inside dimensions are 10 1/2" x 7 3/4" x 3 1/2". So excited to get home and give it a try!!!

 

[LittleCrazyWolf]

I've been wanting to try my hand at salt bars and decided to give it a go today.

I was really nervous because I used coconut milk for half of the water and a fast moving FO. However, I was pleasantly surprised that I had time to color half the batch nautical blue.

So there I am looking at my pretty awesome blue and white salt bars when I look over and realize that I forgot to add the salt!

*Sigh*

 

[not_ally]

LCW, hate that. For me it is usually the FO if I leave it until the end.

Julie, that is gorgeous! I am jealous.

 

[Luv2Soap]

Well - tonight was the night that I used the mold for the first time. I have to say I was REALLY impressed!!!!! It was really easy to line and didn't leak - a plus I made my first "intricate" soap - the swirl soap. Hubby & I worked together to make it and it was really fun pouring colors with him.

Here are the colors we used - they were samples from Nurture Soaps. I really liked the white snowflake with titanium dioxide. We used Sweet Pea FO from WSP. I think this fragrance moved the trace a little. At the beginning, it was pretty liquid, but by the end it was like pouring sludge out of the containers.


Here's a picture of the soap before spin swirling it.

And - here's what it looked like after I took a bamboo skewer to the top of it to make some designs:

I'm pretty excited to get this unmolded and cut to see how the spinning did!

 

[jules92207]

Ohhh how fun! Looks great!

 

[SoapStephanie]

Julie, can I borrow your hubby pleaaaase? :mrgreen:
Yours is so creative, haha!

 

[grumpy_owl]

Finally, finally, FINALLY, got my Ballerina soaps right, after three tries! It's a pale, satin-slipper pink with white glitter, smells delicioso--I changed up the scent-- and did not get partial gel in the freezer (I wanted to keep the color very pastel) because I was patient enough to soap cool.
Also made a bunch of lovely full-color glossy brochures for my CP soap business, which is not a business yet, but at least I have the brochures. Now to tangle with the state and city agencies to get fully licensed.