Recent content by DeerBunny

Thank you! I tend to get sucked into the rabbit hole of soaping YouTubers while I'm breastfeeding; it's hard to find kid friendly stuff on TV that isn't specifically a kid show so, soap TV it is!! Usually I'm interrupted half a million times so I grab inspiration and information bit by bit...

Thanks guys! At first I was calling it "the ugly soap" but so many people have said it's their favorite, it's kinda funny!! And my new soap stamp came in just in time too, that really made it cute. I think my DeerBunny stamp is the best purchase I've made in 2017!

Okay so after giving it a few days it was still a touch zappy and it was stressing me out so I decided to just go with it and rebatch it. It went okay, here's the finished product:

Haha okay, I'll keep that in mind and won't be too hard on myself!!

Thank you all! I'll try to remember to update with how it turns out. I decided to do a small rebatch with the ugliest bars just to learn how to do it, and also because I so hate the look of them anyways. So if I do need to rebatch them all I'll at least kinda know how to do it!

Alright so looking into rebatch... It looks like it's inevitable that it'll lose it's fragrance? But I'm assuming that making it into confetti to keep its fragrance isn't going to work because of these lye pockets so, I'll have to rebatch completely in a Crock-PLPot, right? Since those spots zap...

Okay! I've never rebatched before, yikes! So if it doesn't zap in a couple of days should I still rebatch to be safe?

I used the aloe vera juice, frozen into ice cubes, not strained. Just did the zap test and it definitely zaps. Does that mean I should toss the batch?

Oh okay, thanks! I actually got that from a YouTuber, I think the woman at "essential soaps"? She said she adds her superfats after blending her lye water and oils to trace, at the same time that she adds colorants and FO. So that's what I've been trying! Actually this is only my second batch...

And another!

An up close photo of one of the oozy spots

So I experimented with a new soap last night and....It just went all wrong. First, I had everything measured out perfectly, lined up just right, had my design plan, and went to measure out the lye and I didn't have enough. So, last minute trip to TSC to grab some more lye, made it there five...

Oh fun! Thanks, I'll look into those.

So I have a bunch of soy wax shavings sitting around from a candle making phase... Any fun ideas for B&B products I could make from them?

I've been making CP goat milk soap for a while, just never using my own recipe. Thank you though! Still always lots to learn!