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Double soap day! I've been looking through the Browsing soap pics thread and feeling all inspired plus it's Wednesday which means I need extra coping.

I was so happy with this fire-inspired soap until halfway through the swirl when it struck me that I had done the colours in the wrong order

Like, it's fine... but it was days of planning and hours of prepping... Doh!
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I also had a go at getting back to my roots and making a grocery soap, which was a lot of fun! I was amazed at how slow my current recipe is to trace. I'm sure it's something to do with the home-rendered tallow. The industrial stuff I used to buy would trace fast enough, and go from liquid to solid in the blink of an eye. The new stuff is softer at room temperature and it's a more gradual solidifying, and takes aaaaages to trace.

Not that I'm complaining! But I presume it's a purity thing, which makes me wonder if there's a risk my more recent soaps are less superfatted than I thought

<blockquote data-quote="Tara_H" data-source="post: 885754" data-attributes="member: 32740">Double soap day!&nbsp; I&#039;ve been looking through the Browsing soap pics thread and feeling all inspired&nbsp; <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😁" title="😁" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f601.png" />&nbsp; plus it&#039;s Wednesday which means I need extra coping.I was so happy with this fire-inspired soap until halfway through the swirl when it struck me that I had done the colours in the wrong order <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="😫" title="😫" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f62b.png" />Like, it&#039;s fine... but it was days of planning and hours of prepping... Doh![ATTACH]56107[/ATTACH]I also had a go at getting back to my roots and making a grocery soap, which was a lot of fun!&nbsp; I was amazed at how slow my current recipe is to trace.&nbsp; I&#039;m sure it&#039;s something to do with the home-rendered tallow.&nbsp; The industrial stuff I used to buy would trace fast enough, and go from liquid to solid in the blink of an eye.&nbsp; The new stuff is softer at room temperature and it&#039;s a more gradual solidifying, and takes aaaaages to trace.Not that I&#039;m complaining! But I presume it&#039;s a purity thing, which makes me wonder if there&#039;s a risk my more recent soaps are less superfatted than I thought <img class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" alt="🤔" title="🤔" src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f914.png" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="Tara_H, post: 885754, member: 32740"] Double soap day! I've been looking through the Browsing soap pics thread and feeling all inspired 😁 plus it's Wednesday which means I need extra coping. I was so happy with this fire-inspired soap until halfway through the swirl when it struck me that I had done the colours in the wrong order 😫 Like, it's fine... but it was days of planning and hours of prepping... Doh! [ATTACH]56107[/ATTACH] I also had a go at getting back to my roots and making a grocery soap, which was a lot of fun! I was amazed at how slow my current recipe is to trace. I'm sure it's something to do with the home-rendered tallow. The industrial stuff I used to buy would trace fast enough, and go from liquid to solid in the blink of an eye. The new stuff is softer at room temperature and it's a more gradual solidifying, and takes aaaaages to trace. Not that I'm complaining! But I presume it's a purity thing, which makes me wonder if there's a risk my more recent soaps are less superfatted than I thought 🤔 [/QUOTE]

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