Your ugliest rebatch

[Bex1982]

Any pics of your ugliest rebatch to share? Or ugliest soap in general?

Here are two that I happen to have pics of, but I have made even uglier ones.

 

[jenneelk]

This was my 20th batch and it seized, then my first rebatch/crockpot for it messed up and I had to do a 2nd. Dumb me tried to do TD and it got all clumpy. Just an awful ugly batch but smelled ok. LOL
Called it my Rugly bar since Fugly might not go over too well.
Works great though.

 

[Bex1982]

Hahaha, rugly, I like it. What is TD? I just did one for the 3rd time, now its all crumbly.

 

[jenneelk]

TD is titanium dioxide. But it was too stiff for my slurry and I gave up and just poured.

 

[Bex1982]

ah I see.

 

[blissfullather]

How ironic! I was just about to make a thread entitled, "I've got the Indigo Blues". Where do I start?
Well, I decided to do a rebatch of some older soaps, and a soaping mishap that I created last night. I watched a few videos about rebatching, and I ran across a video where the lady added some sort of blue pigment to her rebatch. She ended up with a beautiful deep blue soap, with whitish embeds.
Eureka! A lightbulb went off. Instead of me ending up with an ugly dull beige soap, I would add some indigo blue to some Castor Oil, and give this soap some jazz. Well, let me tell ya, the light bulb was not as bright as I thought. I added the blue, and it turned my soap gray. So, silly me... I added more indigo......and it got a darker gray. Now, instead of beige I had a putrid looking stone gray color; kind of like clay.
Oh well, I added my scents to it, and made it a mans soap. It smells great, but it is hands down the ugliest concoction I have ever made! Where did I go wrong???!!!!

 

[Bex1982]

Oh im so sorry for your mishap but this really made me laugh. I can picture it, the excitement we get when we think it will be amazing and then reality hits lol.
If it makes you feel any better, the soap I just rebatched looks like crumbly yet gooey playdough squares.

 

[cmzaha]

How ironic! I was just about to make a thread entitled, "I've got the Indigo Blues". Where do I start?
Well, I decided to do a rebatch of some older soaps, and a soaping mishap that I created last night. I watched a few videos about rebatching, and I ran across a video where the lady added some sort of blue pigment to her rebatch. She ended up with a beautiful deep blue soap, with whitish embeds.
Eureka! A lightbulb went off. Instead of me ending up with an ugly dull beige soap, I would add some indigo blue to some Castor Oil, and give this soap some jazz. Well, let me tell ya, the light bulb was not as bright as I thought. I added the blue, and it turned my soap gray. So, silly me... I added more indigo......and it got a darker gray. Now, instead of beige I had a putrid looking stone gray color; kind of like clay.
Oh well, I added my scents to it, and made it a mans soap. It smells great, but it is hands down the ugliest concoction I have ever made! Where did I go wrong???!!!!

Activated charcoal is a great saver for a rebatch that goes ugly. Makes a great charcoal detox bar. Just don't call it that if selling

 

[Bex1982]

I used a bunch of scarps and made a peppermint shaving soap last week. It's black but it's peppermint LOL. No soap scrap shalt be wasted!!

 

[seven]

ooo the ugly rebatch thread.. i sure have some of those, lol!

unfortunately, i'm in the "too embarrassed" mood right now to show even one of them

i HATE rebatching!

 

[Bex1982]

we need more pictures!! Don't be shy!

 

[KristaY]

I made a batch today that I'm sure will go into the "ugliest batch ever" category. Probably right into a rebatch tomorrow. Stupid me, thinking I could outsmart, and work with, clove oil. I just had to add it to my honeysuckle to make a beautiful floral spice. Well it smells amazing but I ended up with "melted milkshake" to "seized soap" in about 20 seconds. Plus, I only added 0.5 oz to a 6 lb batch! The visions of a beautiful lavender and white hangar swirl flew right out the window. I had to scoop it out of the bowl and shove into the mold by hand. It's been curing for about 6 hours now and I'm too scared to peek. When I cut tomorrow I'm sure I'll have horrible pics to share, lol. Don't lose hope for the soaping challenged (that's what I feel like today anyway!). :lolno:

 

[Obsidian]

I have uglies, I'll take pictures tomorrow.

 

[rogue]

Oh! My first effort at translucent soap and I got a pretty princess...and a rainbow ugly ol' frog.

I can't even cut the rainbow yet it's such a sticky icky mess 3 days out. Lessons to learn with transparents and then some.

 

[Bex1982]

It actually looks pretty cool

 

[jules92207]

these "ugly" batches are not making me want to post any pics cause they are SO not ugly! Seriously peeps - nothing here is all that bad!

 

[rogue]

Noooo. Rainbow photographs well I suppose. Full of holes, sticky mess. I made a beautiful goatsmilk loaf and made 1/4" slices to pour layers of different colours in between. Until it started to instantly harden up on me I sheets, and I had to scrape the containers and shove the sticky bits I between then pour next colour. AND I didn't scent enough so I had to mix more so everything got more gloppy. Think I was buzzed on the alcohol fumes!

 

[Bex1982]

Lol!! I should have taken a picture of one I made a couple years ago. I called it "mystic mud" but it looked like straight up chunky poop. I'm not even joking!! And a few people actually bought it.

 

[jenneelk]

Rogue if you can cut away at the holes I bet its pretty gorgeous inside. The color blending is fab.

 

[jenneelk]

I actually made a batch 2 days ago that I have made a few times before.. and even with milk. But this time I did a powdered milk and it overheated in the first 30 minutes and separated on me. Just turned out so so ugly and not what it usually is.
It will def. be a rebatch for the future if I ever get around to it. My house smelled like honey and orange up until today when I finally fanned it out.

Pic of the UGLYcomb and then what the last 3 batches looked like. All came out the same but this one.