What soapy thing have you done today?

[Wyredgirl]

Made pine tar soap...forgot how fast it accelerates!!! And used my new mold. I also made a cinnamon bun soap with morrocan red clay and coconut milk. Hopefully pics tomorrow.

 

[jules92207]

I made Oatmeal, Milk & Honey in my new honeycomb mold, a batch of Pumpkin Spice, and a batch of Shave & Haircut - all scents from Brambleberry.

I also made a new olive oil soap which I think I put too much rose kaolin clay in and I used rose distilled water for half the liquid. It's really pink.

 

[maya]

I made cupcakes and bon-bons. with little frosted tops. They are so darling I cannot stand it.

 

[gigisiguenza]

I planned and plotted LOL. I really wanted to make a batch today, but life got in the way. So I've been planning and plotting

 

[gigisiguenza]

I made cupcakes and bon-bons. with little frosted tops. They are so darling I cannot stand it.

Pics, we need pics

 

[maya]

Pics, we need pics

I'll try, thanks for asking.

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[maya]

I haven't taken pics of the cupcakes, yet.

 

[maya]

 

[JuneP]

The first one he did was with a black raspberry FO, so just check his channel on you tube and select video and all his videos will come up and then you can see which one he did right after the Black raspberry FO., In that one he changed how he poured it into the mold and he got a lot more wispy parts. Both were nice, but I preferred the second one.

June I'm not sure which I watched, I watched so many, but I'm trying to learn how to get those beautiful wispy swirls

 

[JuneP]

Had no energy to make soap after a couple of days dealing with an intestinal bug which has now morphed into a cold; but I did manage to get my tools out and make notes on the colors I want to use for the secret swirl challenge. I also spent a lot of time, in vain, looking for my swirling tools, so I dug into the closets and found an older wire hanger and made a new one for one of my molds. And of course after I made a new one, I found one of the three missing ones last night and in the middle of the night remembered where I put the commercially made one.

Old metal hangers are much thicker than current ones, so it took a lot of digging through tool boxes for find a heavy, wire cutting plier and it took a while to get the shape right; but it's done and ready to go either today or tomorrow,

After dinner I found a great web site with color combinations and got a lot of great ideas for soap colors and spent a lot of time downloading some of those to print out later. The site has an amazing database of colors and you can pick out a color, apricot, for instance, from a long list and search will bring up a whole page of possible color combinations. I'll definitely be spending more time on that site!

 

[kumudini]

I made 100% CO laundry soap and did some swirl practice with blue oxide, it somehow turned a very pretty lavender. AND, I also had overheating and cracking for the first time in almost one year of soap making but this was my own doing, I had insulated it as I soaped RT and my basement was cold. No worries though as this one would be crushed to powder pretty soon.

 

[IrishLass]

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[handavaka]

I am making 3 batches of my Marina Del Rey Shaving soap today....selling a lot of this, in spite of the impending NO-SHAVE-NOVEMBER approaching! It's a tad cold and rainy here in Southern California, so I feel a "force-gel" coming on....

 

[navigator9]

I made soap for the first time in months! I had promised myself that I wasn't going to make any soap until all of the work was done on the house, because I didn't want to be distracted.....but I just couldn't help myself. I made some buttermilk bastile for a friend's daughter who is pregnant. It felt soooo good. I want to make more tomorrow.
P.S. They dug the holes for the porch supports today. Once the building inspector checks them out, framing can start. Woo hoo!!!

 

[LoveOscar]

My salt order from BrambleBerry came in today! Soaping time is coming soon. I have a salt bar recipe I want to test out!

 

[SweetBubbleTreat]

Wanna make soap but don't know what to make.....thinking of making turkeys for embeds .... Or maybe some green clay soap.... Don't know what to do lol

 

[dibbles]

Tried my first zebra swirl tonight. I hope I don't have to post on the 'soapy mistake' thread again!

 

[commoncenz]

I made my made master batches of lye/aloe juice and my oils today. First time I've done that instead of making the lye mix and melting the oils when I soap. Just got tired of the waiting to soap until the lye mix and oils were "ready".

 

[dillsandwitch]

After dinner I found a great web site with color combinations and got a lot of great ideas for soap colors and spent a lot of time downloading some of those to print out later. The site has an amazing database of colors and you can pick out a color, apricot, for instance, from a long list and search will bring up a whole page of possible color combinations. I'll definitely be spending more time on that site!

June do you mind sharing the site with me? I'm terrible at picking colours and this sounds like it could really help me out some.


As for something soapy. does trying to clean up CO from my carpet help? One of my drums had a hole in the bottom and with this hot weather it melted and escaped. I think I only lost a couple of kgs into the carpet but now I get to have the fun of trying to get it out. I think I got it all. We will see tomorrow after the cornflour dries and I can get in there with the vac and then the carpet shampooer. fingers crossed

 

[gigisiguenza]

June do you mind sharing the site with me? I'm terrible at picking colours and this sounds like it could really help me out some.


As for something soapy. does trying to clean up CO from my carpet help? One of my drums had a hole in the bottom and with this hot weather it melted and escaped. I think I only lost a couple of kgs into the carpet but now I get to have the fun of trying to get it out. I think I got it all. We will see tomorrow after the cornflour dries and I can get in there with the vac and then the carpet shampooer. fingers crossed

This is my private nightmare regarding masterbatch lye. That I'll come home from work one night and find that the solution has found a hole and leaked all over something. Ugh. It gives me a nervous gut just thinking about it and the nightmare of finding a way to clean it up.