Hello soapers!
I wanted to make a woodsy type of soap and decided on tiger stripe concept with two shades of brown (brown iron oxide and cocoa powder) and yellow (yellow iron oxide). After unmolding my creation the next morning I was in for a surprise - its about as purple as it gets! Im not sure if the color will fade with time to be brown, so I will be keeping an eye on it. Has this ever happened to you?
Also, for some reason the soap kept warping on me when I tried to cut it with a blade. This has happened to me once before with another hard bar and I am curious what I can do to avoid it - should I use wire cutter instead, should I cut it sooner? I ended up beveling it to make it nice and flat, but in the process I lost quite a bit of soap.
Many thanks!
Silver
I wanted to make a woodsy type of soap and decided on tiger stripe concept with two shades of brown (brown iron oxide and cocoa powder) and yellow (yellow iron oxide). After unmolding my creation the next morning I was in for a surprise - its about as purple as it gets! Im not sure if the color will fade with time to be brown, so I will be keeping an eye on it. Has this ever happened to you?
Also, for some reason the soap kept warping on me when I tried to cut it with a blade. This has happened to me once before with another hard bar and I am curious what I can do to avoid it - should I use wire cutter instead, should I cut it sooner? I ended up beveling it to make it nice and flat, but in the process I lost quite a bit of soap.
Many thanks!
Silver