What soapy thing have you done today?

[amd]

Well, I’m stuck at home today with a wine-tasting-related injury (Yeah, I’m making that a thing.)

I often have beer-tasting-related injuries (mostly because I'm naturally clumsy + beer tasting = apocalypse). My current injury is from last night, I bit through my tongue... while hanging a shower curtain and chatting with my hubby... don't ask. It was a weird night.

I've had soap cupcakes on the brain for a few months now, so I decided to host a soap cupcake themed challenge this month. Hopefully I will have time to play along (I can't enter but I can be inspired, right?), but I have to portion out tallow and cocoa butter so that I can master batch oils. Sigh... I said I wasn't going to make soap this month....

 

[shunt2011]

I finally got around to making some salt bars. Unmolded them yesterday. Made 3 good size batches. All turned out awesome. I tried a couple batches with powdered salt as I was gifted a bar and loved it, so had to order some. Took forever to get here. Now to let them cure. Will try to remember to get some photos.

Want to participate in the cupcake challenge, trying to decide if I have time.

 

[Dawni]

Dustin had a long nap this afternoon which allowed me to make the soap posted above... And he slept more or less early tonight too so..

I made confetti soap! I realized both my confetti soaps were HP so I wanted a CP one hehe

I haz sum swirlz... Lolz

 

[Zany_in_CO]

A few of you might notice what big mistake I made

Oh, you mean the mischievous alligator in the upper left corner? Are you saying you didn't do that on purpose?

 

[Zany_in_CO]

Not sure if this counts... Today, I'm washing my recently departed hubby's ball caps, golf caps and sun visors with my homemade 100% coconut oil LS in a foamer. Works great! Just enough soap to clean, without soaking. So far so good.

 

[Dawni]

Oh, you mean the mischievous alligator in the upper left corner? Are you saying you didn't do that on purpose?

Lols nope. That was me not knowing what to do with the thickened batter in my containers after doing the swirl

I like mischievous alligator.. My son said it was a dinosaur footprint *rolls eyes*

I forgot to line my mold...........

 

[KiwiMoose]

No it’s not gimmicky - a lot of people do it me included. Why the boiling though? I thought seawater would be pretty antimicrobial as is?

In case someone pee'd in the water just before I collected it?

 

[KiwiMoose]

Lols nope. That was me not knowing what to do with the thickened batter in my containers after doing the swirl

I like mischievous alligator.. My son said it was a dinosaur footprint *rolls eyes*

I forgot to line my mold...........

LOL - I thought it was a footprint too. Is that not a silicone mold?

 

[Dawni]

LOL - I thought it was a footprint too. Is that not a silicone mold?

It isn't. Good news is it slid right off. Bad news is a ton of ash lol I'll post cut pics soon

What do you all do with excess batter that's not enough to mold somewhere else? It was taking me too long to scrape everything before I could swirl, I was worried it might thicken.

 

[Zany_in_CO]

What do you all do with excess batter that's not enough to mold somewhere else?

I have a few single bar molds that come in handy for just that purpose, but use your imagination and look around for plastic containers that might work.

 

[Dawni]

I have a few single bar molds that come in handy for just that purpose, but use your imagination and look around for plastic containers that might work.

Yeah I have singles too but my leftover wasn't enough to make half an ice cube so the alligator reared its head lol

Black soap above unmolded and pics posted here

 

[Zany_in_CO]

Yeah I have singles too but my leftover wasn't enough to make half an ice cube so the alligator reared its head lol

Hahaha.
Oh, well, in that case, I just clean my spatula off on the soap dish at my sink then roll the soap in my gloved hands and smoosh it into a small disc for testing. "Waste not; want not" as my mother would say. I quite like those small samples to use as the rest of the batch is curing.

 

[cmzaha]

Oregon Trail Soapers Supply

Bonsai from Oregon Trails is a very good seller for me and the fo sticks like glue. It is strong but I still use it at 1% ppo. It is second best to DB

 

[Dawni]

Got everything ready for my third attempt at a corner pour.

Hopefully third time's the charm.

No additives and I'm gonna hand mix the heck out of this even if it takes me all afternoon coz I don't want a repeat of the last two times when I could barely pour....

Edit: I think I did it!
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A few of you might notice what big mistake I made lol

Dear friends, I have this soap cut n posted over here, but I need some help figuring some things out. After my very first posted soap here, this is probably the second weirdest soap I've made, in terms of feel and texture of the bars.

And here I thought I was done with this swirl lol

 

[KiwiMoose]

Help a girl out would ya? I have a bit of a quandary - I want to make some soap RIGHT NOW, and I don't know whether to do another impression mat soap, or to try a butterfly swirl. Help me choose?

 

[earlene]

How many butterfly swirls have you done? How many impression mat soaps? How much time do you have?

I'd probably do the butterfly swirl.

 

[KiwiMoose]

How many butterfly swirls have you done? How many impression mat soaps? How much time do you have?

I'd probably do the butterfly swirl.

Sold! One butterfly swirl coming up....

 

[earlene]

I am looking forward to seeing your result, KiwiMoose!

Today, I opened my box of FO's from Jen (her FO moving sale, closed, btw). Now to plan my next soaps and try some of these out!

 

[KiwiMoose]

Very pleased with the top @earlene , once again I made up
A little too much of the colours though. Might be a bit heavy in the butterfly and light on the soap!
We’ll see.

 

[Dawni]

That top is gorgeous KiwiMoose! I'm excited to see the butterflies hehehe