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I bet the discussion of my soapy stuff pushed them over the edge.
It turned a funky brown. 
My garden is full of borage. Thanks so much for doing the work
. The difference in indigos is crazy
Thank you, @dibbles!
Oh how interesting!
suddenly a combination of ricing, and as I was beating that back, sudden uneven thickening. racing to avoid soap on a stick, I got it into the mold and crossed my fingers it would be ok. 30 minutes later a small, but growing before my eyes crack appeared. I watched and waited until it stopped growing and smoothed it out. I was frosting it anyway.
the SPARKLES 
Maybe it was the “boil boil toil and trouble”.
ended up w/ 6Learning my lesson & soaping new recipes in smaller batches. Unmolded this today from a 1/2&1/2 milk container WAY2 SOON but LOVING
scented w/ pink grapefruit with added sparkles My 1st time using enviro glitter mica, which aren’t showing in picture but WOW 
Looking forward to seeing them cut! I don’t know if you are like me, but I bet it’s super hard to wait!!!
SO hard to wait! I made some bath bombs to keep me busy. Just posted them in the gallery.Looking forward to seeing them cut! I don’t know if you are like me, but I bet it’s super hard to wait!!!
I bought a slab cutter in June from a local maker going out of business. Still have not decided how big to make my slab mold.
I do. My first soap batches were made with tap water and they developed DOS before they came off the cure. This really depends on how good your water supply is. It was worth trying at least.
Ummm... it's always messy when I make soap, so yes I can get on board with that.
). I had decided to wait until some particular VERY weird HP batch would eventually decide to get hard enough after FIVE DAYS to be unmoulded. Let's not talk about it. Two of three of the small soap cubes got out of the mould mostly in one piece, that must suffice.
Left half: still dirty, but already treated with FFA; right half already cleaned.
A whole new oven! (after also washing off the dirt between the glass panes)
Wow it’s like the glass isn’t even there! Um want to come to NH?Back from a few days of socialising abstinence (NOT soapmaking abstinence
My soapy thing of today (well, rather yesterday), was that I by chance discovered that FFAs are a decent solvent for the brownish mud inside an oven. Let's also not talk how I found out … Anyhow, I had had soap scraps dissolved in water (like for salting-out), and then added citric acid in excess, to precipitate the free fatty acids as an oily liquid. I smeared some of it onto the glass door of the oven, let it “soak” (one hour at CPOP temperature), and then it has become a lot easier to remove the stains by rubbing, scraping (with a ceran cleaner spatula), and (secret tip) rubbing with washing soda solution, that turns the FFAs into soap inside the deposits, and makes them go off much easier.
View attachment 59996 Left half: still dirty, but already treated with FFA; right half already cleaned.
View attachment 59997 A whole new oven! (after also washing off the dirt between the glass panes)
Sorry, technobabble. FFA = free fatty acids, i. e. the constituents that were bonded to glycerol in oils/fats. When in alkaline solution, they are the carriers of the cleansing action of soap (with sodium/potassium), or precipiptate as soap scum (with calcium/magnesium). With acids, they precipitate out and float on top of the water phase.
I've taken another pic with the focus not on the point pattern (why is it there at all? To keep fruit flies from mistaking it for a cave and smashing their heads against the glass?), but the inside. I myself was unsure for a moment if the door indeed was shut:
