What soapy thing have you done today?

[TashaBird]

I made a giant bath bomb and practiced using my airbrush. That was super fun! Washed a ginormous mountain of dishes, not nearly as fun.
Adding little soap embeds that I have laying around to my soaps I make from extra batter after pull throughs. These soaps go into the discount bin, and they’re super popular at the farmers market!

 

[Dawni]

I moved my soap rack around... That count?

Reason being we got flooded again ugh.. Soap's all sweaty but I have no time to clean them up just now. Its almost 2am and we just finished cleaning the living room

Hope everyone's having a good start to the week! Miss you guys n gals

 

[Ugeauxgirl]

I moved my soap rack around... That count?

Reason being we got flooded again ugh.. Soap's all sweaty but I have no time to clean them up just now. Its almost 2am and we just finished cleaning the living room

Hope everyone's having a good start to the week! Miss you guys n gals

That's awful! I wish you an easy speedy clean up-

 

[Tara_H]

Somewhat tangentially soapy...

My bathroom is my happy place. For Valentine's Day past, husband bought me a lovely bath tray to hold everything I need. Only trouble is, I have to sit up to reach my wine... #firstworldproblems

So I took an outline of the bath and made this nifty device

 

[Dawni]

Somewhat tangentially soapy...

My bathroom is my happy place. For Valentine's Day past, husband bought me a lovely bath tray to hold everything I need. Only trouble is, I have to sit up to reach my wine... #firstworldproblems

So I took an outline of the bath and made this nifty device
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That's brilliant!

 

[earlene]

Oh, my gosh, @Tara_H! how innovative of you! I would want something for my Tea Cup and I'd want it for travel! And I'd want the whole shebang. I don't think they make anything like that that will fit in my suitcase. At home I don't use the tub very often because I don't like cleaning it afterwards. But while traveling, I do enjoy long soaks in a bubble bath when I have a chance, and access to my tea is the one thing that is often troublesome. I like your solution for your glass of wine.

 

[Nanna]

Oh my goodness. Hello there! New plates, who disc?! The red one was a good co sister you for how fine the detail was. But for the fat design of the blue one, I would’ve gotten more detail if batter was thicker. Both FOs seemed to actually decelerate! Somali Soul and Satsuma by NS.

Those are so funky and beautiful. The red for some reason makes me go cross eyed

 

[Tara_H]

Oh, my gosh, @Tara_H! how innovative of you! I would want something for my Tea Cup and I'd want it for travel! And I'd want the whole shebang. I don't think they make anything like that that will fit in my suitcase. At home I don't use the tub very often because I don't like cleaning it afterwards. But while traveling, I do enjoy long soaks in a bubble bath when I have a chance, and access to my tea is the one thing that is often troublesome. I like your solution for your glass of wine.

I'll keep an eye on my brain and see if it throws out any ideas for how to make a travel version suitable for teacups!

 

[VikingChick]

@Tara_H You could sell those! To me, for instance……….

 

[Tara_H]

@Tara_H You could sell those! To me, for instance……….

Maybe!

 

[earlene]

Woke up my cat while running the heat gun to shrink the wrap on some soap. I didn't know she was sleeping in the chair at the head of the table, because of course, the seat is below eye level. After finishing up 3 bars, she finally poked her head up to peer at me, or should I say, glare at me for making all that noise and waking her up.

Of course I apologized for disturbing her and asked her if she wanted me to stop. In spite of her not answering, I did stop and she went back to sleep.

Other soapy stuff: evaluating my micas for my next soap project.

 

[Zing]

Somewhat tangentially soapy...

My bathroom is my happy place. For Valentine's Day past, husband bought me a lovely bath tray to hold everything I need. Only trouble is, I have to sit up to reach my wine... #firstworldproblems

So I took an outline of the bath and made this nifty device
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I'd like to place an order for a whiskey tumbler holder. Thanks!

 

[Purple heather natural sk]

I take flower peddles from my gardens and infuse them in Olive oil, then use the olive oil in my soaps, so yesterday I strained my peony peddles and made peony garden soaps.
Just finished cutting them

 

[The_Phoenix]

My husband was packing for a work trip last night and asked if I could put a small bar of my soap in a baggie for him. How sweet is that?

 

[kaygrrl]

Had fun experimenting with colorants again. The blue is phycocyanin, or blue spirulina, mixed with various other things - rose kaolin clay, TD, two iron oxides, and rhubarb. The red tray is red rice yeast with nothing, TD, and iron oxide. I don’t know if the blue will hold up, I actually wasn’t sure it would make it this far.

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Beautiful blues! So how has the blue held up?

 

[LynetteO]

I take flower peddles from my gardens and infuse them in Olive oil, then use the olive oil in my soaps, so yesterday I strained my peony peddles and made peony garden soaps.
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They are BEAUTIFUL! Wish I could smell them. Have a coworker that brings in fresh peonies. Always hate to throw out. Now I’ma gonna do THAT!

 

[AAShillito]

Yesterday we poured flamingo embeds and today my daughter experimented with mica and watercolor for the details. She's designing a soap with a mix of pinks, maybe yellow with blue waves

 

[violets2217]

Tried out my new press and press molds, looking for the perfect shampoo bar shape!

 

[TashaBird]

So far the molds I use for lotion bars are my most successful bath bombs. Pack em and leave em! Pop em out when they’re hard. No pressing, breaking... they’re a good size, so they float nice.
Was gonna make soap today, but tweaked my back. This morning was brutal. I’m glad I got to make anything at all today!! Thank goodness it’s feeling better!

 

[Zing]

So kinda a soapy experience today. Decades ago, in the late 90s, a couple gave us homemade CP soap for Christmas and it was incredible and lovely. At the time, it was their tradition to spend a day making soap to give as gifts. It was the first time that I sat up and thought, hmm, this is awesome soap, I should try to make it myself someday!

'Someday' turned into 2017 when I decided to give homemade CP soap as Christmas gifts myself.

This couple now continues to make a simple holy trinity of oils soap, unscented and uncolored. They have not discovered this awesome sub-culture of soapers, they have not watched any YouTubes, Instagram, social media, or visited this forum. They have expressed surprise when I use the word 'soaping' as a verb. Innocent little lambs in the woods that they are, and we love them dearly.

Today these friends visited our "new" home and wanted the grand tour. They even wanted to see the basement! The basement where we hide all of our crap in a desperate effort to keep our house presentable for company-- and where I soap. I have 5 soaps curing and on display, and several batches in shoe boxes. They got excited to see all the soap. The wife says, with great affection, "thank you, Zing, for completely wrecking the idea that we would ever again give away our soap as gifts." LOL -- they were the ones to inspire me to soap in the first place! I actually really like their soap, especially their rosehip soap using rosehips from their garden. They are dear, dear friends and I will be forever grateful for introducing me to CP soap.

And that, folks, is my origin story.