Pencil Line Coffee Soap Redeemed Itself!!

[Luckyone80]

Woohoo!! I was so disgusted with it on Monday that I only cut two bars and left the rest of the loaf to sit b/c the layers were separating. Well I guess the soap was just too soft to cut and just needed to harden longer. So I cut another bar off tonight and it didn't fall apart! The layers stayed together so I cut the rest of the loaf and no problems at all. I got 5 good bars out of 7 so I'm pretty happy with that.

 

[Luckyone80]

Pics!

 

[KristaY]

It's beautiful soap ~ nice work!

 

[snappyllama]

Yay! It really is so pretty; I'm happy it decided to behave!

 

[osso]

It looks really wonderful!

 

[IrishLass]

WooHoo! That's awesome! They look lovely!


IrishLass

 

[claryza]

They look nice ^^

 

[DeeAnna]

Nice! Just goes to show that patience is sometimes the best cure, hey?

 

[SplendorSoaps]

Lovely soap!

 

[Dana89]

Those are little beauties! Can I ask what is in the bottom layer to get the dark dots? Is that coffee too? I love that look.

 

[Cookie]

Your soap looks beautiful, congrats!

 

[Susie]

Beautiful soap! And best of all, you shared your troubles so lots of us learned something! Thank you for that! If I ever make soap with a pencil line, I will now know to wait to cut it.

 

[shunt2011]

That's awesome, those are lovely looking soapies!

 

[Luckyone80]

Those are little beauties! Can I ask what is in the bottom layer to get the dark dots? Is that coffee too? I love that look.

Yes I ground up already ground coffee to get a finer grit and added some to just the bottom layer.

 

[Luckyone80]

Beautiful soap! And best of all, you shared your troubles so lots of us learned something! Thank you for that! If I ever make soap with a pencil line, I will now know to wait to cut it.

I'm not sure if this had anything to do with it but this was a lard recipe and I also didn't let this soap gel, I threw it directly into the refrigerator. I usually gel all my soaps and am used to unmolding and cutting by 20 hours. This one was still too soft to cut by 24 and really it did take a full 72 hrs for it to be ready.

 

[dixiedragon]

Woo! I'm so glad you could save it. It's so yummy looking!

 

[Purplerain]

Absolutely gorgeous!

 

[ClaraSuds]

Looks like banana bread with frosting. People really have to stop making soap that resembles food. :think:

 

[Confused_Penguin]

I remember the pics you showed us before -- I'm glad you managed to salvage them! They look lovely!

 

[Luckyone80]

I remember the pics you showed us before -- I'm glad you managed to salvage them! They look lovely!

Thank you, me too b/c I was sick over it.