What soapy thing have you done today?

[Alzie]

Cut the Pink Sugar today. Turned out ok. My apologies for the huge pics but thumbnails make you click on them.

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Those are so pretty! Very nice!

 

[Alzie]

Well, finished my soap shack (for the most part minus curtains and whatnot ) currently sharing with the pantry but it works and has a lot of light. Waiting for my chair to arrive so that I can work at the table on longer projects. I'm beyond thrilled about the height adjustable table so that I can finally soap at my height and not the tall person kitchen counters I have my shoulders and elbows are thanking me lol. I'll finally get to soap this weekend

 

[Serene]

Worked on caning with new soap recipe. I felt as if I was watching paint dry. This one works great when trying to cane but will do a few adjustment. I was able to get it to work, somewhat.

 

[Lin19687]

Ok, I got all the pots washed from last soaping day, cut some dividers for a mold. Then went to drop off eggs to someone and sat chatting for 3 hours ! I loved it, I have no friends... need more friends

 

[Moose Wrangler]

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.

There's a soapcon?!!

 

[Misschief]

I've spent the last hour or so (lost track of time, tbh) creating an inventory sheet of everything that's coming to Sunday's market, as well as making a to do list of items that need wrapping and labelling, checking to see if everything is correct in Square, and more. I think I'll even have time tomorrow and Saturday to make a few more bubble scoops and maybe a test batch of bath bombs, just to see if they'll sell.

In doing the inventory, I now also know which soaps I need to make more of. The two glaring ones kind of surprised me (though I'm not sure why).

 

[shunt2011]

Just finished getting pretty much everything together for this weekends show. A little perplexed when I opened my cash box and my card reader and card swipers are all missing. Thank goodness I had an extra swiper or I’d be up a creek without a paddle. I’ve looked everywhere for my reader. I always keep it in my cash box.

 

[Misschief]

Just finished getting pretty much everything together for this weekends show. A little perplexed when I opened my cash box and my card reader and card swipers are all missing. Thank goodness I had an extra swiper or I’d be up a creek without a paddle. I’ve looked everywhere for my reader. I always keep it in my cash box.

That sounds like something I would do. Mine lives in my cash box, too. I hope you find them.

 

[Lin19687]

4 batches while listening to Pandora (80's and today's country)
Lavender Sage - needed more since I am almost out
Pink Orchid & Amber
Fallen leaves- not like leaves so I added a bit of mintiness = will see how it turns out
Sugar&Spice with some Peace (like nutmeg from NG)

Just took out of the mold and will cut tonight after 7pm, I hope

Do you carry a bag/purse to the shows? Maybe it is in there. I keep cash in my pocket and extra cash (in a baggie) in the bag with drinks etc. My reader is kept in the baggie the money is in.

 

[earlene]

I hate when that happens! I've been in a hurry to pack stuff up and sometimes make the mistake of not putting an important item in it's accustomed home, thinking 'I'll remember where I put this and put it away later (tonight or whenever)' then don't. So not good. Drives me nuts searching later.

 

[Alfa_Lazcares]

More salt bars!

 

[earlene]

I used corn silk in soap for the first time. One of my husband's co-workers gave him a couple of ears of 'sweet' corn a couple of weeks ago and I thought, 'now is the perfect time to use corn silk in soap'. Well, I sure hope the soap comes out better than those horribly un-sweet 'sweet' corns were. It was the worst fresh corn I've ever eaten. I think maybe their was some cross pollination with feed corn somewhere along the way, as they were just terrible.

Anyway, I dried the corn silk and put it in a baggy to bring along on this trip so I could use it in the lye solution same as silk. I don't know what to expect, but I wonder if it had anything to do with thickening my batter more than expected.

 

[BlueIris]

I made pumpkin soap, with a lavender cedar wood FO. Colored it orange, but it looks more pinkish than orange. I’ll use a bit more color next time and try to darken the next batch. Ordered a few Christmas scents and a cute star mold to start Christmas soap soon. I send soap overseas for the holidays so I have to start early to give plenty of time for curing and shipping. Love this time of year.

 

[msunnerstood]

Delivering 40 soap airplanes and 16 soap flowers today since Ill be in the area. so glad those are done. (She is talking about buying more molds god help me)

 

[earlene]

I forgot to mention that I bought a 54 ounce container of CO for under $10 last night. The price was so good, I couldn't pass it up. The Grocery Outlet store is chalk full of fabulous bargains. It's one of the few places in this Northern California town where my son lives that allows for affordable cost of living for the many poor folk who live here. Most everything else is way over-priced for the high percentage of folks living on limited incomes. Even the Goodwill in this town is horrendously overpriced. I tell my son what the average Goodwill charges for things and he is amazed I find such bargains.

Thought maybe I'd make some salt soap while here if I get tired of the Dancing Funnel. I gathered some salt from the Utah Salt Flats a few days back, specifically to add to soap. Thought it would be a fun experiment. I may stop and get some more on my way back home.

 

[Lin19687]

I have water in the freezer and Lye measured out for salt bars.

 

[TanyaGri]

Omg!! You make them look so beautiful! I have just started, literally 2 weeks ago. Only practising designs on melt&pour soap for now, want to start CP at some point...

made this box today as a gift for my parents wedding next week.

How does this look? Too much glitter :-( spent all today morning on it

yesterday.. ground coffee with shea butter & oatmeal , will be ok as a scrub .

Pls give some feedback... if they look ok?

 

[steffamarie]

I whipped up a batch of pink-purple soap with a gold mica line about 1/3 of the way from the bottom. Waiting on it to set up so I can texture the top with a mica drizzle!

Side note, does anyone know if the lines that appear from the pearl mica will stay after saponification? If they do I'm sure it'll make for an interesting look lol

 

[Misschief]

I made two batches of bubble scoops today. Now, I have to shrink wrap two batches of shower steamers and one batch of soap before tomorrow's market.

 

[Lin19687]

None of my mica pearl stuff stays... if I am thinking the same thing as you are.

I got 4 batches of salt bars done finally