I made a soap that seized so fast I barely had time to get it in the mold and the white riced on me so I SB'd into submission , cut today not as bad as I expected.
Pumpkin pie stout soap
1. earlene - I have not seen this one before; it should be fun!
2. Omneya- I have seen this before, but it was called dragon scales. Still want to try it!
3. dibbles - I've actually tried this once - it didn't go well. Time to try again!
4. toxikon - pretty shiny scales!!!
5. BattleGnome...
I was a moron and completely forgot to put on rubber gloves to clean my soaping dishes (I clean them day of, then dishwasher in my soap shop) I now have very minor irritation beneath my fingernails. Not horrible but enough to remind me not to do it again!!
I made more soap and cut my batches from yesterday
And today's makes
Some cracking and gelling but it gives a really cool effect on my tic tac toe soap
I spent the time to render down beef suet into tallow and made sure that it was clean and nice and white and it turns out that I dislike tallow soap.I will say it was still cheaper than buying tallow for 23.99 a pint
Making a 1lb loaf because this is an entirely new fragrance (except for small "tester" soaps done in individual molds) and I want to play a bit. This is a Bastille Soap though
And tobacco bay leaf sounds about right, but knowing that I also wanted a tobacco-y shaving soap I ordered about 10...
Well in general I use at max 5 different recipes
One is a spa type bar
One is my GM
One is my standard
One is a shaving soap
One is a shampoo
The variations come in with additives,fragrances, and colors
I have a soap "book" where I keep the components of each individual soap written down...
I haven't soaped for a few months because I had a new baby, but I'm trying to get my Xmas soaps started. My base recipe is slow moving so please feel free to challenge me on design. My next fragrance is tobacco (can't remember the exact name) and I want it to appear masculine. I have others that...