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Has anyone used this FO from WSP? I'm wondering if it discolors and if the acceleration is as bad as the reviews say?
I had planned a nice hidden feather swirl but now I'm wondering if I will even have time for a itp swirl.
 
Ok, so it does accelerate.
I was using a slow to trace, high lard recipe and stirred the FO in by hand. It was fine at that point, I should have stopped and finished my swirling but no, I had to hit it with the SB one more time. I seen it starting to accelerate so I quickly poured in my itp swirl color and swirled, by the time I walked across the room to the mold it was a thick globby ickyness.
It poured into the mold ok, there was a fair amount of gloppy blobs but they won't affect the finished look. I used a spoon and gave it one more gentle swirl before dripping some mica in oil on top. I couldn't texture the tops or even really swirl the mica in as it sat up very fast.
Lesson learned, when a FO is known to accelerate badly don't push your luck. Stick to one colors and resist the urge to SB the FO in. I really like this scent so I don't mind dealing with it. I plan on making salt bars with it though, that might be bad:crazy:
 
Ok, so it does accelerate.
I was using a slow to trace, high lard recipe and stirred the FO in by hand. It was fine at that point, I should have stopped and finished my swirling but no, I had to hit it with the SB one more time. I seen it starting to accelerate so I quickly poured in my itp swirl color and swirled, by the time I walked across the room to the mold it was a thick globby ickyness.
It poured into the mold ok, there was a fair amount of gloppy blobs but they won't affect the finished look. I used a spoon and gave it one more gentle swirl before dripping some mica in oil on top. I couldn't texture the tops or even really swirl the mica in as it sat up very fast.
Lesson learned, when a FO is known to accelerate badly don't push your luck. Stick to one colors and resist the urge to SB the FO in. I really like this scent so I don't mind dealing with it. I plan on making salt bars with it though, that might be bad:crazy:

Haha, I feel your pain. Did something really similar earlier this week. That ****, "lets give it one more hit with the SB", just killed me. :)

Hope it works in the salt bar. The scent sounds like it would be perfect for a salt bar. Bet you can do it, just ignore that pleading call from the SB for one last chance to swim in the batter. :)
 
It is a really nice scent, a bit sweeter then other sea scents but I do like it a lot. It is also a heater. I placed my uncovered mold in the coldest room of the house and it still went into full gel.

EDIT: still in gel
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Sea kelp & Agave

Waiting for the cut!....



Unless this is the one that had to be re batched?
 
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