Such pretty swirly colors, toxikon!
I got the biggest jug I could find that had the right no drip pour spout of laundry detergent that I could stand the smell of. Found a gigantic jug of free n gentle with the right configuration, so yay! Did double check that it's #2 HDPE. Soon as I get it emptied I'll clean out the jug and keep it for masterbatching lye solution.
I got my fun molds today! Two sizes of ice cream scoops, snowflakes, mustaches, shells, and puppy paw prints. The small ice cream scoops, snowflakes and mustaches look like they'll make nice guest size soaps, the others will be pretty close to full bar size in weight. I also found a silicone 3-d baking pan I've got, shaped like a d20 with the 20 on top (naturally). I'm going to try it out with soap. Figure if it seals well enough for cake batter (and it does, I've baked with it a couple of times and no leaks), it should be well enough for soap batter. Soaps out of it will be about 3 inches in diameter, in any direction.
I might, depending on how I feel later (still pretty stiff from building a kitchen island cart yesterday) make one or two batches of soap tonight. I want to take another swing at a Serenity type soap, with the firefly mica and pink lotus EO blend and maybe make one pretty enough for gifting. Also plan on trying out orange peel wax in soap, and I'm thinking I'll try out of my new molds at the same time. See just how many little ice cream scoops a 500g batch of soap will make. I occurs to me that I should make a little soap stamp that's a simplified outline of Serenity (the ship) to use with soaps I make with this EO blend and mica.
Since I was thinking about it, I went through and updated notes in my binder, especially since I've got several test batches curing. It's not going to take me all that long to fill this first one at this rate.
