Unmolded my soft-recipe "Hamburger" soap, my 3rd soap, and thankfully that catsup-red color muted to brown, and the mustard-yellow also muted. It's ugly to me, though -- looks like lasagna, or marble cake -- too much like food. Dear SO loves the way they smell, with the Pennyroyal.
These will take a while to cure, I'm expecting, and should be a good summer soap with the insect-repelling EO.
Made these in a small cardboard box, not my 1 lb. wood mold, because of the highly-experimental nature of this soap -- both in formulation and the natural colorants. There's a little bit of rosemary leaf and calendula flowers in there, too.
These spent last night and this morning with a fan blowing on them because they were still too surface-soft. Hardened up nicely with the forced air flow all around, and under, too, since they didn't sit flat on the curved plate.
Will be posting pictures late this afternoon of the 4th batch (still in the mold), which is back to more favored colors.
Said to SO yesterday: "For 2 days in a row now, I said I was gonna put this stuff away, and instead I made more soap." He gave me that knowing 'guy grin' and said, 'yup'.
