Where is our reality show?

[Zing]

Mrs. Zing loves blown glass and is watching a show called Blown Away. My kids got me hooked on Forged in Fire about making knives and swords. Nailed It could cure depression.

We need a show! Think of the drama! Waiting 24 hours for the cut! Heated discussions about the term "natural"! Glycerin rivers disqualification resulting in @KiwiMoose breaking down on camera!

 

[AliOop]

ooooo I like this! We can have a panel of experts analyzing recipes and soap problems, resulting in such drama!

"Those are stearic spots."

"No, they are air bubbles, exacerbated by the wire cutter!"

"You are both idiots! Those are undissolved lye crystals, and the soap is hazardous to human life!!"

(fight breaks out on camera, chairs are smashed, etc.)

 

[Zany_in_CO]

A reality show for us! What fun that would be! Suggestions for what it could be called:

Lather Up!
All in a Lather!
Big Bubbles or Bust!
The Real Soap Opera

 

[CreativeWeirdo]

Sudz Up!

 

[Misschief]

The Real Soap Opera

Bonus points if you sing while you're making your soap.

 

[AliOop]

Bonus points if you sing while you're making your soap.

Like the little Italian grandma on YT who sings while she shows you how to make ravioli!!

 

[lsg]

Sounds like YouTube to me.

 

[ResolvableOwl]

Can't wait to see @Zany_in_CO faint IRL (and rip down the curtain) when someone tosses a flawed soap batch!

We also need that one swing in the garden. Each time someone has put a batch of soap to rest/CPOP (and was cheeky enough to tell people about it), they will be tied down on the swing, and guarded by a grim lynch mob to stay there for full 24 hours without food and drink.

 

[Zany_in_CO]

Can't wait to see @Zany_in_CO faint IRL (and rip down the curtain) when someone tosses a flawed soap batch!

<<< Click on it.

 

[ResolvableOwl]

Yes, but in colour and with sound please. Today's TV audience can expect that.

 

[TheGecko]

I'd do it.

 

[Mobjack Bay]

We could have Signature, Technical and Show Stopper Challenges, just like on the Great British Baking Show. @Zing Do you have steely blue eyes? We need a judge who stares stoned-faced at the makers (rhymes with bakers) as the temperature in the tent soars and their soaps begin to volcano.

 

[Zing]

We could have Signature, Technical and Show Stopper Challenges, just like on the Great British Baking Show. @Zing Do you have steely blue eyes? We need a judge who stares stoned-faced at the makers (rhymes with bakers) as the temperature in the tent soars and their soaps begin to volcano.

Uh, yeah, look at my avatar. Steely blue eyes, check! Gotta work on the stone face....

 

[Johnez]

I'm imagining conversations like this for "West Coast Soapers":

-You put dirt in shave soap?!

-Its called bentonite and it's for slip!

-Dirt dulls blades!

-Doesn't shaving already dull them???

-Use glycerin!!!

 

[Becky1024]

I just saw a trailer for “Meet Your Maker” with Chrissy Metz and Leann Rimes. An episode is on artesian soap making. Their definition of “artesian” is melt ‘n pour. Uh no, not interested.

 

[Zany_in_CO]

“Meet Your Maker”

Here's another one: Saponification Nation

Can't wait to see @Zany_in_CO faint IRL (and rip down the curtain) when someone tosses a flawed soap batch!

I think I still have that outfit tucked away in a cedar chest in the attic. Perfect for the crazy old Auntie who resides there. Even the best of families has one, doncha know?

 

[Quilter99755]

I'd qualify as the little (in height only), old (definitely) gramma (got three), but am totally tone deaf. The only time I sing is when I'm alone and even then I turn the volume up enough to wake the dead so that I don't hear myself sing! It's bad! I could go without my hearing aids and be on "silent running" so that contestants could be arguing around me and I'd be totally in my own world! I'm great at that.

You guys crack me up! Love y'all.

 

[Cat&Oak]

I've thought about this too Zing I think the reason why is the cure time for handmade soap. They could definitely do one for melt and pour artistry though

My hubby said "They thought about it but then they washed their hands of it "

 

[TheGecko]

I've thought about this too Zing I think the reason why is the cure time for handmade soap.

I was thinking about that last night. It would be simple enough to set up a Signature, Technical and Show Stopper Challenges, just like on the Great British Baking Show as mentioned by @Mobjack Bay...make the soaps one day, then splice in the unmolding and cut like folks do in videos from the next day after each "challenge", but just as taste is an important component in the baking challenge, so is curing you soap. I make a good quality soap, but there is a difference between soap that is 48 hours old and soap that is six weeks old.

 

[Zing]

So clearly no one in the industry reads this forum but I'm still loving these posts! My fave titles are The Real Soap Opera and Saponification Nation!