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the layers that I see appear to be the differing color changes as it goes through the gel phase. How long did you let the soap sit in the mold once mixed together? Did you insulate the mold or place the mold in the oven at 170 for 1.5 hours to force gel? I don't believe you have...

do I have permission to "borrow" this idea? I plan to modify with an open back with an angled 1X4 for support on the back wall.

just made a 10# batch of peaches and cream scented soap colored with orange and titanium Dioxide. Next few weeks will be making LOTS of soap to get ready for Christmas sales.

We plan to make 3 batches... Batch 1) Unscented, uncolored soap Batch 2) Lime/Grapefruit scent with colors of green, yellow and white Batch 3) Apple Cinnamon scent with colors of Natural, light green, Red and specks of brown

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72 additional bars of soap in preparation for a craft fair with my daughters. Also ordered a 10x10 canopy. I really need to get a portable generator and small 5000BTU air conditioner for the craft fair display tent. Florida is HOT in the summers!

plans for this weekend with my daughters include: 10# Goat Milk & Honey Soap 5# Cucumber Melon 5# Carmel Apple 5# Honey Almond 5# Beer Soap (made with homebrew beer I make)

I have 6oz yogurt cups, 4ea - 32oz plastic measuring cups, 2each 1 gallon buckets and 1ea 3 gallon bucket. Homemade wood molds (18"x3.5"X2.5") and my recipes are generally 54oz oil for a single loaf and doubled for 2 loaves.

2 batches First: 18 bars of Lemongrass Fruit Smoothie (Lemongrass E/O, Pink and Blue colorant swirled, shea butter and cocoa butter) second batch: 36 bars of Peaches and Cream (peach F/O, Peach Color and TD swirl, shea butter soap) My daughters LOVE this and Dad really enjoys the quaity time...

My afternoon appointment was with a client that wanted to learn how to make soap. At her house, we made Beer Soap :) as a gift for her husband. Shhh, this will be a surprise for him! 4 bars Black Oxide & Titanium Dioxide No scent The soap is for a gift for her husband.

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good luck... I make my own beer and tried beer soap. I had instant saponification which some call siezure. Hope your batch goes better than mine did.

addd a photo of the Goat Milk and Orange Honey soap... see above

1 batch 18 bars Goat Milk and Honey Orange E/O

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I wish I knew how to post a picture on here... the Raspberry Swirl (pink, offwhite & chocolate colors with Raspberry FO with Cocoa Butter and Cocoa Powder for fragrances) we made on Sunday afternoon got sliced this afternoon and it turned out AMAZING. My daughters Friends/Family bought all 18...

I'm new too, so keep this in mind when reading... I recently struggled with Titanium Dioxide too. I tried mixing with water - EPIC Fail, Tried mixing with Glycerin and mixing with oil. For the TD I have, it mixed easiest with the oil at 5tsp oil:1tsp TD. Once in there I stirred the crap out...

amending my last post here... my daughters had friends over this afternoon for homemade pizza on the brick oven. While here, we all made another (4th) batch for the weekend. 1) 18 bars - this batch 2) 4th batch 3) Bamble Berry "Sun Ripened Raspberry" + cocoa butter to get a final scent of...

1) 46 Bars 2) 3 batches 3) Batch 1: Bramble Berry "Pinot Grigio" - smells like perfume and not wine. batch 2: Bramble Berry "Southern Peach" batch 3: Bramble Berry "Lime & Pink Grapefruit" 4) Batch 1: Titanium Dioxide, Tangerine Wow, Cellini Red, Fizzy Lemonade Yellow...

I made a soap with Beer in it. Boiled it then put in fridge to chill to 36degrees before adding Lye. The recipe also had Stearic Acid and the combination of Beer & Stearic Acid will cause a very quick trace. No smells from the beer when adding lye.