Hello beginners, lurkers and wannabe soap maker visitors! I am pretty much new, having been gone for a number of years after a short run of wild soap making that supplied friends and neighbors and still left me with soap still stashed. In those years of absence I have used down my soap supply a bit and run across quite a few bars that made me exclaim -
"Wow, this stuff is great! How did I do that?!"
I have no idea how I did it because my notes and records of old batches are really awful, if they can even be found. You've heard it from others but this is the voice of experience who has used the last of several batches that were earth shakingly wonderful and no chance of being repeated. Keep good records, attach pictures, lots of numbers, everything you think is insignificant may not be. No detail is too small when you realize next year, or the year after, or maybe 3 or 4 more that you hit a home run and want to do it again. Can't wait to make another batch!
"Wow, this stuff is great! How did I do that?!"
I have no idea how I did it because my notes and records of old batches are really awful, if they can even be found. You've heard it from others but this is the voice of experience who has used the last of several batches that were earth shakingly wonderful and no chance of being repeated. Keep good records, attach pictures, lots of numbers, everything you think is insignificant may not be. No detail is too small when you realize next year, or the year after, or maybe 3 or 4 more that you hit a home run and want to do it again. Can't wait to make another batch!