bathgeek
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I have a bar-height table I use, but because I have issues with stick blending at bar height, I've recently (last week) added a lower regular-height table. They are on opposite sides of the room, because that's how the traffic flow in the room works, so when I work at one table the other one is at my back. (Can you see where this is going?)
So there I am making an 8-lb batch (Trying to pump up inventory ahead of Christmas). It's a simple two-color layer with a fragrance that accelerates but not a lot. I've got four 2-lb loaf molds in front of me ready to go. My fragrance has been pre-separated into two little containers, one of which also contains the mica I will use. The mica is pre-mixed, and I leave the two containers on the bar height counter like I've always done.
My lye was pre-batched, so I weigh out my oil on the low table, put in lye mixture, SB to light trace. I pour my uncolored bit out into my separate pitcher and SB it a bit more, then pour it into the molds. I turn to the remaining half, reach for my mica, and freeze, because DAMMIT I DIDN'T FRAGRANCE THE UNCOLORED BIT.
What I should have done was pour the soap out of all four molds into a container, whisk in the fragrance, and then re-pour. (I should have!!! I know better!!!)
What I did was pour the fragrance into the soap in the molds, whisk them by running the whisk up and down the mold a bit, and then proceed, because acceleration waits for no one.
Well, yesterday I unmolded and cursed. The colored portion was fine, but the uncolored portion... experienced soapers can guess what happened. Now I have 8 lbs of soap sitting in my rebatch pail. I'm not a happy camper right now. Just wanted to vent, this is what happens when I take shortcuts I KNOW I shouldn't take. >_<
I'm forcing myself to hand grate the rebatch soap to teach myself a lesson. And of course, the fragrance oils are now on the LOW table before I start pouring lye mixtures.
So there I am making an 8-lb batch (Trying to pump up inventory ahead of Christmas). It's a simple two-color layer with a fragrance that accelerates but not a lot. I've got four 2-lb loaf molds in front of me ready to go. My fragrance has been pre-separated into two little containers, one of which also contains the mica I will use. The mica is pre-mixed, and I leave the two containers on the bar height counter like I've always done.
My lye was pre-batched, so I weigh out my oil on the low table, put in lye mixture, SB to light trace. I pour my uncolored bit out into my separate pitcher and SB it a bit more, then pour it into the molds. I turn to the remaining half, reach for my mica, and freeze, because DAMMIT I DIDN'T FRAGRANCE THE UNCOLORED BIT.
What I should have done was pour the soap out of all four molds into a container, whisk in the fragrance, and then re-pour. (I should have!!! I know better!!!)
What I did was pour the fragrance into the soap in the molds, whisk them by running the whisk up and down the mold a bit, and then proceed, because acceleration waits for no one.
Well, yesterday I unmolded and cursed. The colored portion was fine, but the uncolored portion... experienced soapers can guess what happened. Now I have 8 lbs of soap sitting in my rebatch pail. I'm not a happy camper right now. Just wanted to vent, this is what happens when I take shortcuts I KNOW I shouldn't take. >_<
I'm forcing myself to hand grate the rebatch soap to teach myself a lesson. And of course, the fragrance oils are now on the LOW table before I start pouring lye mixtures.