Recent content by alexei

Aww, thank you! I always feel the same way about other people's design "fails," we're always harsher on ourselves eh? I'm glad I'm not the only one with this issue - I was getting worried when I was trying to troubleshoot on my own via Google and couldn't find anything similar. I do the same...

Hmmm, I've heard of stearic spots before, but never swirls! I'll do a little more research about that later :) I've tried this exact recipe with the exact colors with success before, just without the drop swirl cause it accelerated too fast. The activated charcoal parts turned out a nice...

I'm a hobby soapmaker; I've made 15 or 20 batches and I've never had this happen to me before. I'm concerned about the fuzzy ring around the white parts, and the coloring looks uneven for the black parts. There's some faint white/grey spots throughout the black part of the soap too. my recipe...