... you’re drooling over someone else’s pots of freshly rendered lard...
You know you have soapy brain when......
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Dawni
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...all plant matter is a potential colorant
sirtim100
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You start to talk about soap making and you get so excited about it all that people start to move back, slowly, away from you, with an expression of mild concern on their faces (happened to me today)...
LOL - or they stand in place, nodding with their eyes glazed over. Happens all the time. I've learned that when people say 'tell me about making soap' they really just want a very short answer. As in, yes - I do actually use lye.
And in that vein,
... you go to a conference of 1500 marine scientists and talk to anyone who will listen about how interested you’ve become in the structure of triacylglycerides. They know all about triacylglycerides because they study marine food webs, but they still look at you like you’re from another planet...
... you go to a conference of 1500 marine scientists and talk to anyone who will listen about how interested you’ve become in the structure of triacylglycerides. They know all about triacylglycerides because they study marine food webs, but they still look at you like you’re from another planet...
Zany_in_CO
Saponifier
Good News: Perfect description!
Bad News: I've been at it for 15 years and I still do that!
When you have company over and instead of showing them the brand new upstairs renovation you take them to your soaping room in the basement.
...you want to stay home from work to watch the discoloring FOs turn brown in the soap you just cut...
You grab the air pockets from work, pop the tops with a paperclip to deflate, roll them to fit into your tote.....and have to tell people it is for soap.
Lefty
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...You go shopping in a kitchen supply store, and all you see is new tools and gadgets to use for making your soap! (I'm looking at you, novelty silicone ice cube trays!)
sirtim100
Well-Known Member
You explain the relative differences between cold process and hot process because it really is very important and your friend's interested gaze takes on an unfocused, glassy-eyed stare, but you just carry on explaining because it really is very important. Then she asks you what's for dinner...
sirtim100
Well-Known Member
You have never in your life looked, let alone bought something, in the kitchen supplies section of the dollar store, but today you walk out, the proud owner of a silicon icing cone to make nice new shapes... with soap
No no no no not on a date!! Sir Tim, you have to wait til she moves in before you have these conversations or she will RUN....
With best of luck she will only gradually notice your soaping insanity.
Dawni
Well-Known Member
... When you're looking at someone's outfit and figuring out in your head what swirl will suit those colors in soap
You know you have soap on the brain when you hear someone talking about "batter" and you think soap not baking!
...making a successful soap with tallow is the high point of your week...
You use the discoloring FO as a blind swirl in a different FO.
I actually do that....
I actually do that....
... you’re stuck in an airport wondering why you need to attend professional development conference when you could be staying home making soap...
You see a Pinterest pin for Bottle Gourd Soap but are puzzled because it's in a soup bowl. Then you realize it says SOUP, not soap!
You see anything at Walmart with the Word "Butter" in it and you wonder if it can be used for soap.. Almond Butter, Apple Butter...
