welovesoap
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I just completely screwed up a batch of soap. Everything was going fine, until I split the batch into two so I could scent, dye, and mold it in two different ways. Well, things started going wrong when I added the RED oxide into the CHAI scented soap! I had intended on using the brown, shimmery mica for the chai scented batch. So, I attempted to fix it by adding brown mica to the red soap. And it made it… a diarrhea color. >.<
I then proceeded to scent and color the rose scented batch. The coloring went okay. But I realized, as I was measuring out the rose FO, that my math was completely messed up when I measured the various oils I used to scent the chai. I scented the chai batch of soap with TEN TIMES the amount of fragrance it was supposed to have. TEN TIMES.
As I proceeded to freak out, my rose soap ended up ricing on me! Almost certainly because I took too long to put it in the mold, and because the recipe I was using was almost 1/3 shea butter.
So… There is going to be some major rebatching in the near future.
On the positive, I figured I would get some use out of my trouble by making you laugh with how out of control my soaping got today!
I then proceeded to scent and color the rose scented batch. The coloring went okay. But I realized, as I was measuring out the rose FO, that my math was completely messed up when I measured the various oils I used to scent the chai. I scented the chai batch of soap with TEN TIMES the amount of fragrance it was supposed to have. TEN TIMES.
As I proceeded to freak out, my rose soap ended up ricing on me! Almost certainly because I took too long to put it in the mold, and because the recipe I was using was almost 1/3 shea butter.
So… There is going to be some major rebatching in the near future.
On the positive, I figured I would get some use out of my trouble by making you laugh with how out of control my soaping got today!