I am in the process of moving, part of that was putting a bunch of soaps on the dining room table to sort them for taking with/donating/junking (I already threw out a bunch of soaps away yesterday.) For context, although I am a hobbyist, my habit so far is to make way, way more soap than I could ever use or give away to people that I know.
Even the ones that are unattractive to me - and are in the junk pile - are not butt-ugly, I think. I just don't like the color combination, or sometimes they seem too cloudy, some of them are over colored, so although they are quite pretty I know that they will lather dark in the water and non-soapers will think that is weird. I just don't want to give them away if I would not be excited about getting them as a gift myself.
Anyway, my sister came over to help pack today and was horrified at the notion of how much I would have thrown away. She works in one of the poorest school districts in the country, she was like "some of these families sometimes don't have money to spend on soap! Just shut up and give it to me, I'll put it in boxes in the cafeteria!"
I let her take them, but it was weird, even though I agreed w/her reasoning I still did not want samples of my soap that I do not love out to be out there, circulating. And I wonder what those folks are going to think when they use a black bar which colors the lather/water dark ....
ETA: All these soaps are fine w/r/t to quality, cure, lather, mildness, etc. Just the look.
Even the ones that are unattractive to me - and are in the junk pile - are not butt-ugly, I think. I just don't like the color combination, or sometimes they seem too cloudy, some of them are over colored, so although they are quite pretty I know that they will lather dark in the water and non-soapers will think that is weird. I just don't want to give them away if I would not be excited about getting them as a gift myself.
Anyway, my sister came over to help pack today and was horrified at the notion of how much I would have thrown away. She works in one of the poorest school districts in the country, she was like "some of these families sometimes don't have money to spend on soap! Just shut up and give it to me, I'll put it in boxes in the cafeteria!"
I let her take them, but it was weird, even though I agreed w/her reasoning I still did not want samples of my soap that I do not love out to be out there, circulating. And I wonder what those folks are going to think when they use a black bar which colors the lather/water dark ....
ETA: All these soaps are fine w/r/t to quality, cure, lather, mildness, etc. Just the look.