What soapy thing have you done today?
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Beautiful soap! Ultramarine Blue and Hydrated Chrome Green are two of my favorite colorants. So pretty and saturated.
I'm pretty happy with it. Here's the cut, and unmolded, soap.I like it, @Misschief - looks like they will be super cute when you unmold them!
You were able to mix the UM blue with oil? That’s really good to know. I use UMs but it’s always a bit of a struggle getting them incorporated. I usually mix them with glycerin and then mix either to the lye or into the batter. I realize it won’t dissolve in the oil, just disperse (I guess).
Had my first soft water shower using my ZNSC (with sunflower instead of olive). I've never gotten such larger lather before
Edit: my typist still hates me
Edit: my typist still hates me
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I wanna go to the school of @Mobjack Bay for a weekend. Your beach soaps, like every other soap you make, are an absolute work of art.
Very pretty! Nice looking soap @Mobjack Bay
For the first time I made a shampoo bar soap. It's for "Curly hair." It is made with a rose tea and lye solution. It has Amla & Kaolin clay. No FO at all. I made this for me as my hair is thinning and I'm finally tired of having curly hair. It was poured yesterday. I will let it set all day before cutting it tomorrow in 1" slices. It was made with Castor, coconut, jojoba, olive, palm oil & shea butter. Oddly, this is exactly the color it's supposed to be using the rose tea & Amla powder.
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I made soap last night, and it turned out perfectly! The backstory is that my last few batches didn't turn out well, and everything pointed to something with my MB lye solution. This was one where I had premixed it to 40% concentration and included the sorbitol and CA. It worked well at first, but about half-way through the jug, my soap batter started behaving differently. Some wouldn't trace; others traced but leaked or full-on separated in the mold. One large batch in my slab mold ended up with a huge heat cavity, filled with liquid that smelled like vomit (no milk products were used, either). 
See pic #1, below. I've never had that happen before! Needless to say, this entire batch went into the trash. 
That last failure was enough to motivate me to put the lye solution down a few drains throughout the house, and make a new MB, this time at 50% with no additives. It was tough getting a glove over my thumb splint, but soapers gonna soap, ya know? And I'm so glad I did. This batch is scented with a mix of 2 parts lavandin EO and 1 part Bouquet of Roses FO, a very popular blend with a couple of friends who have been patiently waiting for me to make a decent batch of soap. The color was supposed to be pink, but it's definitely more of a blush pink on the peachy side. A last minute decision was to press my texture mat on top, which served double-duty as a covering for the soap, too. One hour on the heating pad, then left to sit under a towel, and it was ready to unmold and cut this morning, about 12 hours after pouring. It's now been cut and trimmed, and is sitting under plastic wrap for a few days to prevent soda ash. The shadow makes it look like a partial gel, but IRL, the colors are smooth and even. Yay!
See pic #1, below. I've never had that happen before! Needless to say, this entire batch went into the trash. 
That last failure was enough to motivate me to put the lye solution down a few drains throughout the house, and make a new MB, this time at 50% with no additives. It was tough getting a glove over my thumb splint, but soapers gonna soap, ya know?
And I'm so glad I did. This batch is scented with a mix of 2 parts lavandin EO and 1 part Bouquet of Roses FO, a very popular blend with a couple of friends who have been patiently waiting for me to make a decent batch of soap. The color was supposed to be pink, but it's definitely more of a blush pink on the peachy side. A last minute decision was to press my texture mat on top, which served double-duty as a covering for the soap, too. One hour on the heating pad, then left to sit under a towel, and it was ready to unmold and cut this morning, about 12 hours after pouring. It's now been cut and trimmed, and is sitting under plastic wrap for a few days to prevent soda ash. The shadow makes it look like a partial gel, but IRL, the colors are smooth and even. Yay!
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That's pretty with the mat! This soapy adventure teaches us so much, and it's fun!I made soap last night, and it turned out perfectly! The backstory is that my last few batches didn't turn out well, and everything pointed to something with my MB lye solution. This was one where I had premixed it to 40% concentration and included the sorbitol and CA. It worked well at first, but about half-way through the jug, my soap batter started behaving differently. Some wouldn't trace; others traced but leaked or full-on separated in the mold. One large batch in my slab mold ended up with a huge heat cavity, filled with liquid that smelled like vomit (no milk products were used, either).
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That last failure was enough to motivate me to put the lye solution down a few drains throughout the house, and make a new MB, this time at 50% with no additives. It was tough getting a glove over my thumb splint, but soapers gonna soap, ya know?
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Thank you! I have a couple of impression mats but rarely remember to use them. Such an easy way to make pretty soap!
Love the impression mat look! May I ask where you bought it?I made soap last night, and it turned out perfectly! The backstory is that my last few batches didn't turn out well, and everything pointed to something with my MB lye solution. This was one where I had premixed it to 40% concentration and included the sorbitol and CA. It worked well at first, but about half-way through the jug, my soap batter started behaving differently. Some wouldn't trace; others traced but leaked or full-on separated in the mold. One large batch in my slab mold ended up with a huge heat cavity, filled with liquid that smelled like vomit (no milk products were used, either).
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That last failure was enough to motivate me to put the lye solution down a few drains throughout the house, and make a new MB, this time at 50% with no additives. It was tough getting a glove over my thumb splint, but soapers gonna soap, ya know?
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It's been so long that I'm not sure, but it was probably either from Michael's, or from the cake decorating section of the grocery store.
I'm so excited! A family member has asked me to make her a variety of different soaps to try. I've been looking for a reason to order some more sample size fragrances to test and now I've got the perfect excuse!
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