I made deodorant today, and true to form, what could go wrong did go wrong. It's been that kind of day today all day long. Well maybe I should say yesterday, as it is after midnight.
So first, I melted the babassu oil in a pot of hot water. No problems. I cleaned two deodorant containers, taking them apart in the process, of course.
Then I measured out my MgOH.
Next, I accidentally put grabbed the sample soy wax baggie instead of the cera bellina wax baggy and started adding it before verifying I had the right ingredient. So I split my 9% (formerly I used beeswax) and did 5% as rice bran wax and 4% as cera bellina wax. Then I thought I should have just stuck with the rice bran wax because now I won't know which one brought what to the recipe. Oh well. That's not the worst that could happen. But in case it's not yet evident, I added the wax pastilles to the dry MgOH, BEFORE the oil. That was the wrong order and I know better. I know to melt the wax into the oils first, but as I said at the start... it's been like this all day.
Of course, after adding the gently melted babbasu oil into the powdery mixture, I still had to melt the wax. That worked out okay, but it was just out of order and took longer than it would have if I had done it without the powder. So I had to let it cool down again before adding my FO. No problem, just took more time.
So choosing the containers to pour my new deodorant in, I first topped off a small container because I know this amount has a bit extra. No problem and I want to take the small deodorant container with me on our little trip (train to Chicago for 2 nights). Then I started filling one of the deodorant containers I had washed, and was surprised it took more of the mixture than the last time I filled it. Of course it did, I forgot to put the part that attached to the twist up post in there before filling the tube! So I had to take it all back out and melt it again and clean wipe out the tube a bit so it wouldn't be so messy and put it back together so I could re-fill it again! Geez Louise!
Well, I have my deodorant, so that's good. But it took at least twice as long as it should have done. And I only did the one batch, although I had planned to do another for another FO. But after that, I figured I should not do anything else the rest of the day.
That didn't last long, though because I had to perform nursing duties for my husband. But that is another story and non-soap related.
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