What soapy thing have you done today?

[earlene]

Gorgeous, Misschief!

Recently I bought a mold with 4 little cavities of the Stitch character and last night I unmolded them. My granddaughter's favorite toy when she was a baby was a stuffed toy of the character. In fact she loved Stitch so much that when she started talking and started calling me by the same name, I was extremely honored to share a name with her beloved toy.

Here are my first soaps from that mold:

 

[msunnerstood]

msunnerstood, maybe one of these links will help with choosing what to add to make your orange mica a deeper or darker orange. I've only been doing this a short time, so I am no expert by any means.

http://www.lovinsoap.com/2012/07/cr...sing-oxides-and-ultramarines-color-palette-1/
https://www.modernsoapmaking.com/using-cosmetic-micas-in-cold-process-soap/
https://www.soapqueen.com/bath-and-...nd-tricks/color-palette-tips-color-resources/
http://www.soapqueen.com/bath-and-b...ks/create-rainbow-mixing-colors-cold-process/

I did learn in a class I took at SoapCon last year from Carrie at Nurture, that to darken a mica, you add a bit of black mica to the mix. So perhaps you could try that with your orange, if it's just a darker orange you are going for. If you don't have black mica, perhaps activated charcoal or black oxide.

@earlene I am trying the addition of black to some Klein Blue today. Hoping to get a darker color. Ill let you know how it turns out

 

[msunnerstood]

Gorgeous, Misschief!

Recently I bought a mold with 4 little cavities of the Stitch character and last night I unmolded them. My granddaughter's favorite toy when she was a baby was a stuffed toy of the character. In fact she loved Stitch so much that when she started talking and started calling me by the same name, I was extremely honored to share a name with her beloved toy.

Here are my first soaps from that mold:

Adorable!

 

[Alzie]

Shattered... here it is.

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Beautiful!

 

[Alzie]

Those are gorgeous Misschief, I love the M&P in CP.
Alzie I'm jealous!

Lol, it's not much, but at least now I'll be able to soap AND make dinner on the same night !

 

[scard]

Alzie, I know just how you feel, I am in the process of moving my soap mess out of the kitchen and into the spare room. I like glitter on my soap, not so much in my coffee!

 

[Alzie]

Alzie, I know just how you feel, I am in the process of moving my soap mess out of the kitchen and into the spare room. I like glitter on my soap, not so much in my coffee!

Lol agreed!! And the bf prefers not to go to work with random sparkles all over, but you know what they say about glitter Lol

 

[msunnerstood]

Lol agreed!! And the bf prefers not to go to work with random sparkles all over, but you know what they say about glitter Lol

I have glitter on my face now from the soap I made earlier lol

 

[msunnerstood]

msunnerstood, maybe one of these links will help with choosing what to add to make your orange mica a deeper or darker orange. I've only been doing this a short time, so I am no expert by any means.

http://www.lovinsoap.com/2012/07/cr...sing-oxides-and-ultramarines-color-palette-1/
https://www.modernsoapmaking.com/using-cosmetic-micas-in-cold-process-soap/
https://www.soapqueen.com/bath-and-...nd-tricks/color-palette-tips-color-resources/
http://www.soapqueen.com/bath-and-b...ks/create-rainbow-mixing-colors-cold-process/

I did learn in a class I took at SoapCon last year from Carrie at Nurture, that to darken a mica, you add a bit of black mica to the mix. So perhaps you could try that with your orange, if it's just a darker orange you are going for. If you don't have black mica, perhaps activated charcoal or black oxide.

Still have to clean it up a bit but the color is exactly what I was going for. Thanks again!

 

[lindakschickens]

Today I made my new Bladderwrack Chang Soap. I must have made about 2.5lbs-3 lbs of soap base, I ended up filling a 12 mini rectangle mold set thingy and 5 unicorn head molds. it looks like a light greeny brown avocado color with darker green/green black flecks of the bladderwrack in it and I used may chang essential oil. somesone some place said may chang and litsea essential oil are the same tho is this right???

 

[amd]

Sunday: made my second batch of Energy coconut milk soap.

Monday: cut the soap.

Today my plan is to restock the ocean soap (Sea Salt and Driftwood from Crafters Choice, this is the 7th batch I've made this year for this particular soap, a new record) and play with video editing. If I can stay awake that long. I think I have the video editing thing figured out. I spent about 20 hours last week playing with three different video editors, and finally gave up messing with it. The youngest stepson happened to walk into the room when I was ranting to my husband about wasted time, and the dear child pipes up "I can show you how to edit videos". Turns out YouTube has a limited video editor but it is easy to use and will work for what I want. Now to find the time to do it. Oh, and the kid had a pretty good idea for uploading my videos without crashing my laptop (it has very limited memory as I originally only purchased it for online access). I guess I'll keep that stepkid around after all

 

[SoaperForLife]

Not very exciting stuff going on here.... just finished shrink wrapping the last of my newly cured soap for my show this Sat. My "smell me" bars are shrink wrapped and then opened on either end so that customers can see and smell a soap before buying. I decided to use my Cricut to cut vinyl names for each tester bar and although it was a bit more work, it ended up looking pretty cool. I also decided last minute to make some scrubs to sell so I made one batch today and I guess I'll make another tomorrow. Honestly I have so many jars, bottles and ingredients I figure that it would be wise to use them rather than have them sit on the shelf forever and a day.

 

[artemis]

I thought about soap today. Is that good enough?

 

[Alfa_Lazcares]

I thought about soap today. Is that good enough?

Same. Havent made any soap in about two weeks so i have only been thinking about it XD

 

[Holly8991]

I went on an online shopping spree today
I bought enough to have UPS here for the next 7 days. Good thing DH is on a work trip!

 

[msunnerstood]

I went on an online shopping spree today
I bought enough to have UPS here for the next 7 days. Good thing DH is on a work trip!

Im pretty sure the UPS DRiver hates me. We are out in the middle of nowhere and I get A LOT OF PACKAGES

 

[artemis]

Same. Havent made any soap in about two weeks so i have only been thinking about it XD

I have too much! I try to wait and see what the monthly challenge is before I make anything. We've had a very stressful couple of days, though, and so I'm feeling the need to make something!

 

[Holly8991]

This is what we call dog days at work. Kids going back to school...stormy weather etc. I am a lot less busy at work so I google recipes, pintrest, the forum and shop

 

[Redneck Packrat]

Built a mold today, after making some ugly bars over the weekend. It was my first batch ever, and really was shooting for process. Figured if nothing else I'll shred it and make clothes washing stuff with it. So anyway, this thread's about "today". I built a mold out of 1x4 to make a dozen bars 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 and an inch thick. Thinking about how I was gonna get the soap out of it, I made one end and one side removable, and put them on with hanger lags and wing nuts. If I can figure out how this forum handles pics, I'm hoping to attach some to this post. (Yeah, my first post, too LOL)

 

[Misschief]

Built a mold today, after making some ugly bars over the weekend. It was my first batch ever, and really was shooting for process. Figured if nothing else I'll shred it and make clothes washing stuff with it. So anyway, this thread's about "today". I built a mold out of 1x4 to make a dozen bars 3 1/2 x 2 1/2 and an inch thick. Thinking about how I was gonna get the soap out of it, I made one end and one side removable, and put them on with hanger lags and wing nuts. If I can figure out how this forum handles pics, I'm hoping to attach some to this post. (Yeah, my first post, too LOL)

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