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What soapy thing have you done today?
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Thank you Zany! This is Aleppo soap and the design is the Om symbol and means the soul or truth within.Gorgeous soaps, Terri!
View attachment 31155 This is so pretty and so very well done. What does it say?
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Zany_in_CO
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Ah hah, that is SO cool... no wonder I was drawn to it.
Keep up the good work! I wanna see more. 
Oh, my gosh, Misshief, that is just gorgeous! If I didn't know it was soap, I'd want to take a bite!
I decided to follow the method others on the forum are using and start storing my cured/curing/wrapped soaps inside cardboard/paperboard boxes. I had several smaller decorative boxes that happened to be empty, as well as going to Goodwill to look for more option along those lines. Also a good size for soaps are the boxes that Columbus Foods ships a single 7-lb bottle of oil in. I had one with me while traveling several months ago, and it was just perfect and didn't end up weighing too much. So between designing & printing labels, shrink-wrapping & labeling soaps that have cured, I have also started moving soap to various boxes.
I won't have to worry any more about keeping the soaps in the dark, so that's a plus with the boxes. Although I am concerned I won't be able to see the soaps as easily and may forget what I have on hand because they won't be so visible.
So far, I haven't set up a box-labeling method, but I suspect I'll start with Post-It notes and eventually choose something that I can change but not have to be worried it will fall off, like Post-It's can over time. I won't have to worry any more about keeping the soaps in the dark.
i have found that pineapple works well as a blend in wax melts rather than alone. Like pineapple=MangoI am remelting a batch of my pineapple wax melts. After they cooled there was no scent at all
So now I am trying to figure out what scent I have that will match the yellow color the wax is
Post-its work pretty well, actually. Maybe some of those name tag holders taped on the box would work. You could cut paper to size and swap it out when the box has a new occupant.
Did my second market today and did really well! It was busier than the first time I went and everyone was so friendly and encouraging. Chatted with more vendors this time than last time. Customers had great questions regarding the soaping process and a few of them went away having learned a thing or two (i.e. all true soap is made with lye and soap needs to cure). That makes me happy. I think a couple of things contributed to a successful day; I was in a "feature" spot today and I had one naked bar of each soap so people could touch and smell. That really seemed to make a difference.
What did you use to get the "caramel chips" on top?
I used leftover batter from my Poop soap. You can read about it here: http://www.missionmeadowssoapery.com/2018/03/sometimes-its-simple-things.html
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Not soap, but I experimented with Two Wild Hare's bubble bar kit and recipe and made a batch. Did not wear gloves, forgot I had added FO, and nowI'm walking around sniffing my hands because I want to lick them....carribean suntan lotiony smelling fingers!
Now I'm looking through my supplies....I want to experiment witha scrub...off I go!
Now I'm looking through my supplies....I want to experiment witha scrub...off I go!
Im making airplane soap tonight. MP by request. Husband works on planes so she wants them to hand out to his customers
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I finally made my Farmer's Market soap! I even made a YouTube video for it. It is an awesomely horrible video, but I've wanted to do soapmaking videos forever. All the things that annoy me about other soapmaking videos are there - and I laugh at myself about it too.
Later today will be cutting the soap and finishing my banner for outdoor shows.
Speaking of... not sure where my weekend post went, so I'll recap. I had a show on Saturday, first time in a long time (at least two years) that I was at a show with another cp soapmaker. Turns out that I've "beat" her out of a few shows (I had no clue) so she was interested in meeting me. We had a good chat and swapped soap. Hers is goats milk with 100% lard. I tried it Saturday night and all I could smell was pig and I couldn't get it to lather in my hands. Tried it again on Sunday night with a shower poofy, lathered beautifully and no pig smell. Why the difference, I'm a bit stumped, but learned something interesting about using soap.
What else have I done? Oh, stopped at Lowe's and picked up the RBO on clearance. I found inspiration this weekend for the mythical creatures challenge Now I have to figure out how to do it! I'm excited to try.
Later today will be cutting the soap and finishing my banner for outdoor shows.
Speaking of... not sure where my weekend post went, so I'll recap. I had a show on Saturday, first time in a long time (at least two years) that I was at a show with another cp soapmaker. Turns out that I've "beat" her out of a few shows (I had no clue) so she was interested in meeting me. We had a good chat and swapped soap. Hers is goats milk with 100% lard. I tried it Saturday night and all I could smell was pig and I couldn't get it to lather in my hands. Tried it again on Sunday night with a shower poofy, lathered beautifully and no pig smell. Why the difference, I'm a bit stumped, but learned something interesting about using soap.
What else have I done? Oh, stopped at Lowe's and picked up the RBO on clearance. I found inspiration this weekend for the mythical creatures challenge
Now I have to figure out how to do it! I'm excited to try.
I like your airplanes, msunderstood.
After falling asleep on the couch after dinner, I woke up 'freezing', in this summer heat, no less! When I was working on re-organization of my soaping areas upstairs, I got so overheated that I cranked up (down, depending on how you look at it) the AC and by 1 am, it was COLD in here! So I got up and continued with my shrink-wrapping.
I know some folks are much quicker at this stuff than I am. I get a few bars done and go do something else.
While moving stuff around yesterday I found something my son gave me last year that I will never use for it's intended purpose, but took it because I know it makes him feel good to give me things. But it includes a fan, so I thought, maybe I can use the fan without the rest of the contraption, and test it. Works great, but it's a bit dusty, so needs cleaning before I use it. Hubby is going to clean it for me, then I'll toss the rest of the parts that came with it. The AC doesn't reach our upstairs rooms very efficiently, so the more fans, the better.
After falling asleep on the couch after dinner, I woke up 'freezing', in this summer heat, no less! When I was working on re-organization of my soaping areas upstairs, I got so overheated that I cranked up (down, depending on how you look at it) the AC and by 1 am, it was COLD in here! So I got up and continued with my shrink-wrapping.
I know some folks are much quicker at this stuff than I am. I get a few bars done and go do something else.
While moving stuff around yesterday I found something my son gave me last year that I will never use for it's intended purpose, but took it because I know it makes him feel good to give me things. But it includes a fan, so I thought, maybe I can use the fan without the rest of the contraption, and test it. Works great, but it's a bit dusty, so needs cleaning before I use it. Hubby is going to clean it for me, then I'll toss the rest of the parts that came with it. The AC doesn't reach our upstairs rooms very efficiently, so the more fans, the better.
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Cut my farmer's market soap. I added way too much liquid when mixing my red oxide, so glycerin rivers formed in the partial gel - the one time I have NOT wanted my soap to gel. I had left it uncovered because I knew that the 1% stearic acid recipe likes to gel when covered, but I probably should have stuck it in the fridge. I'm pretty happy how it turned out. I decided, just before I poured it, that I didn't want to make straight layers between the red and black, so I let it glop when I poured the red. I thought I would have more of a drop swirl affect than a wavy layer, but my batter was probably too thick. I still like it, it formed a nice glycerine line where the two colors meet. I love the fragrance too, the dirt FO isn't overpowering and the tomato vine FO is a lovely green smell.
I didn't work on my banner because hubby asked me to help haul landscaping bricks around the yard, so I needed to sit in the cooler-than-outside house and watch TWD, hee hee. I did do some calculations for making my mythical creature challenge soap and got started on that. It's an embed soap with a bunch of different pieces, my first time using m&p inside of a cp soap. Picked out the fragrance and then changed my mind six times. This soap will be for my daughter, so finally settled on BCN's Rootbeer FO. It says it has no vanillan so hopefully the FO doesn't discolor yellow or anything else weird.
I didn't work on my banner because hubby asked me to help haul landscaping bricks around the yard, so I needed to sit in the cooler-than-outside house and watch TWD, hee hee. I did do some calculations for making my mythical creature challenge soap and got started on that. It's an embed soap with a bunch of different pieces, my first time using m&p inside of a cp soap. Picked out the fragrance and then changed my mind six times. This soap will be for my daughter, so finally settled on BCN's Rootbeer FO. It says it has no vanillan so hopefully the FO doesn't discolor yellow or anything else weird.
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Thank you! On top is crafter choice charcoal Vitaburst beads. I debated putting them in the black soap part too, but not knowing how scrubby the beads are I decided to leave them only on the top.
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