Today I was thinking, "I've never had any real problems in my first year of soap making... No partial gels, no volcanoes, beautiful swirls, no botched batches... and then a few hours later, disaster struck.
I had just finished placing 27 bars on the top shelf of my soap rack, about 8 feet high. Well, I overestimated the strength of the top shelf, which is attached slightly differently than my other shelves on the rack, and that made all the difference. The entire top shelf came tumbling down about 5 feet onto the table below. 27 beautiful cold process holiday bars hit the table and received gauges and dents, since they were my most recent, and softest bars. A lot of them were salvageable and took a lot of forming and fingering to look ok again, but they aren't as nice as they were. There's no hope for some of the bars. I had a good cry, not going to lie.
What would you consider your biggest soap making disaster?
I had just finished placing 27 bars on the top shelf of my soap rack, about 8 feet high. Well, I overestimated the strength of the top shelf, which is attached slightly differently than my other shelves on the rack, and that made all the difference. The entire top shelf came tumbling down about 5 feet onto the table below. 27 beautiful cold process holiday bars hit the table and received gauges and dents, since they were my most recent, and softest bars. A lot of them were salvageable and took a lot of forming and fingering to look ok again, but they aren't as nice as they were. There's no hope for some of the bars. I had a good cry, not going to lie.
What would you consider your biggest soap making disaster?