What soapy thing have you done today?

[The Park Bench]

I was going for a drop swirl with blues but my batter accelerated and I just plopped it into my log molds ... Looks like a summer day with blue skies and white clouds ... Not what I was going for, but customers won't know

 

[GemstonePony]

Made (syndet) shampoo bars and shampoo- well, I was going for gel, but it's more like shampoo buttercream. Which is acceptable, just not what I thought that much dilution was going to get me. Anyways, my Mom was around and finally saw one of my 100% CO soap bars in action. She used it to wash a glass, and it sparkled clean. She wanted to know about how much it cost me to make the CO bars, and I didn't have an exact number, but I estimated $1.50-$2 per bar (they're small). So now she's looking at whether or not she and Dad need to be shelling out for the ultra-fancy Dawn detergents/power washes. They have one of my CO bars at their house now, though time will tell if they actually use it.

 

[The_Phoenix]

“Hugs and Kisses”

I forgot to mention that I used @Zany_in_CO's carrot tissue oil (infused in rice bran oil) in this soap.

 

[TashaBird]

Soapiness today: made a soap using my new divider. Want to see how good of stripes I can get just by removing it. I want it to look like a flag. I almost swirled the top 1/2” at the last minute, but I resisted.
Made some more batter for soap dough projects coming up. Then began the soap dough sculptures for my next soap. Only going to have to charge $100 dollars per bar of soap to equal time spent. Really having fun with the process of an assembly line of little birds though!!

 

[Catscankim]

Planed and beveled some soaps today. It's amazing what a difference planing does for your soaps, although I need a different planer I think. I bought a Japanese style planer, but it's too small, and it also leaves drag marks on the soaps. I can't find a cause for this, or is this normal?

Been working on picture taking/editing and web design since 6am (well, there was a nap in the middle). Web design is not my area of expertise here lol. Finally thought I had this shopify thing figured out after a few hissy fits. Then I decide to add a sidebar menu and it all screamed to a halt. After hours of creating a sidebar and dropdown menus, I couldn't view the side bar on my page. Comb through all the settings AGAIN, only to realize that I have a theme selected that does not support a flipping sidebar. And to get a different theme...you have to start from scratch. So I guess I am not going to have one LOL. Definitely not starting over. Why does it let you create one if you cannot use it in your current theme?

 

[SPowers]

Baby poop soap turned back to green!! Not a very nice swirl. I was scared to move that color around too much lol
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Looks teal... yes? Love it in any event. How did you get the white so white?

 

[SPowers]

So pretty! I bought the same heart mold but haven’t used it yet!

These are the soaps I made for Valentines so far. Bombshell, Blonde Moment, Aphrodisiac and Very Sexy. View attachment 52911

Those are gorgeous! I'm inspired.

 

[Catscankim]

Looks teal... yes? Love it in any event. How did you get the white so white?

It's TD, boogers and all. It doesn't look quite that white in person.

 

[Martha]

How do you like the feel of the soap queen formula?

Hope

Since this is my first time using a lotion bar I'm probably not that well versed. It had cocoa butter, which smells dreamy. They are a little hard, so was thinking that this might be a better recipe to make when it's warm. It takes a bit of rubbing/dragging to get it on my skin. However, once I am past that, my skin feels great.

 

[SPowers]

My first batch of the new year. It's a pipe swirl but doesn't look anything like the design in my head! I have a very hard time determining how much batter to spit off for various design ideas... I always end up with more that what I need/want for a specific design idea. Does anyone have a guide they use when determining this? In the end I like the colours and the design is ok. I don't have a log splitter (yet) so my slab molds are only 1 layer deep.

 

[Martha]

*Heavy sigh. Unmolded and cut yesterday's soap. Reality does not match vision. Another first of 2021

After some not so stellar soaps, I've decided to step back and simplify things. I made an itp swirl and a drop swirl. Both came out well. I might even do a solid color. Gasp. Trying to follow the KISS theory of keeping it simple. Your friend will like the soap and even though it isn't what you imagined, it will still be great soap.

 

[Zany_in_CO]

Trying to follow the KISS theory of keeping it simple.

Brilliant! Since I could only apply one "like" and wanted to do 3...

 

[Lperdue]

Made these as a set this weekend. Not quite finished with dark ones

 

[luluzapcat]

Made these as a set this weekend. Not quite finished with dark ones

Those are AMAZING. What an artist you are!

 

[luluzapcat]

I am over the moon--I just cut the prototype of my over-ambitious Valentine's day design (figured I was likely to sacrifice an entire loaf if I didn't start small) and I PULLED IT OFF! Of course now I wish I had gone for the real whole thing, because I'll have my hands full all weekend doing this again. But I can't believe all the first-time stuff came together!

 

[TashaBird]

Super soapy day. Mailed a couple orders. Spent most of the day making little birds and rain drop embeds for a soap in the works. Got in the zone and time flew by!
And I’m happy with my Irish flag. They’ll need some cleaning up when they’re harder. But I’m surprised how clean the verticals lines are just made by removing the dividers.

 

[Zing]

I am over the moon--I just cut the prototype of my over-ambitious Valentine's day design (figured I was likely to sacrifice an entire loaf if I didn't start small) and I PULLED IT OFF! Of course now I wish I had gone for the real whole thing, because I'll have my hands full all weekend doing this again. But I can't believe all the first-time stuff came together!

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You absolutely should be over the moon! You need to win a prize for this! The design is clever and cute. I'll have to stare at it more to figure out your technique. Way to go!

And I’m happy with my Irish flag. ... But I’m surprised how clean the verticals lines are just made by removing the dividers.

I am super impressed with your clean lines after my weekend of less than clean vertical lines that made it look like I was SUI. Great job!

 

[Lperdue]

Those are AMAZING. What an artist you are!

Thank you! I absolutely love doing it! So excited for summer soaps I have planned out!

Super soapy day. Mailed a couple orders. Spent most of the day making little birds and rain drop embeds for a soap in the works. Got in the zone and time flew by!
And I’m happy with my Irish flag. They’ll need some cleaning up when they’re harder. But I’m surprised how clean the verticals lines are just made by removing the dividers.

Holy moley! I love your birds and flags!

 

[rdc1978]

I tried the clamshell swirl for...let's see, the 5th time.
I'm considering just buying a membership for the soapchallenge club tutorials. Are the tutorials really great?

I also got a super awesome set of mold anglers from etsy. Now I must make a chevron design.

 

[Catscankim]

I had several soapy things tonight.

I got a Hardwood Charcoal from MM. I honestly didn't know there was a different one LOL. But according to their description and reviews, it should be more black. So in giving it a try...I bought an enormous container lol. Well enormous for me anyway.

Couple of new FOs to try. So here starts the matching smell to color dilemma that I go through everytime I make soap lol. It's late, and I am tired yet determined to make soap tonight cause I am running out of ready soaps, so need to up production lol.

I will probably have more time tomorrow to do something more cool, so I went absolutely basic and did a AC loaf with lavender 40/4f2

But the fun doesn't stop there. I will cut the loaf in a diagonal so I can make two loaves and do a swirl on the second half...tomorrow.

Its going to be half on the diagonal all black, I want to do a swirl on the other half. Scent is lavender. Do I do the other half black and white, or black and lavender color? I plan on an itp swirl. Hoping everybody is seeing what I am.

Hang on, that was soapy thing #1 ...................

#2 is that I used @linne1gi method of adding powdered sugar instead of granulated. I am a little nervous because with the regular sugar I have to add the lye in parts to make a "clear" solution, and I was able to add the lye all at once because it is an all black soap and doesn't matter much if the sugar changes the color of the solution. Anyway, long story short, I am afraid of the cornstarch in the powdered sugar.

#3....Since I bought a tub of lard instead of my usual blocks, I misjudged how much lard I had on hand. So I added and subtracted a few things and ran it through soap calc. Who knows, maybe I will like this recipe better than my first LOL

Nothing more satisfying than a all black wet soap...