I see all these amazing photos of incredible soap you all make. I'm not sure if this has been done before, but how about some failed attempts. I thought this could possibly be a learning experience. Others may have experienced similar problems in the past and found a fix. Especially good for us newbies. Since I'm still new and have no pride (yet), I'll go first.
Here's my first attempt at a hot process batch. I was following the directions in "The Everything Soapmaking" book, and she has you cook the heck out of the soap. I cooked this batch for over 4 hours, which after reading here is way too much. So that plus the fact that I don't think HP may ever look nice, I also got really bad DOS(or I assume that's what this is). It looked ok for a day or two, then started turning brown. This is the only batch of soap that I've made so far that this has happened too. Could it be from the overcook?? Although it looks really ugly, it actually isn't too bad as far as soap goes. Or as someone else here posted a while back "It will still clean your butt".
Is anyone else brave enough to post some ugly soap? Or maybe I'm the only one who makes ugly soap.
Here's my first attempt at a hot process batch. I was following the directions in "The Everything Soapmaking" book, and she has you cook the heck out of the soap. I cooked this batch for over 4 hours, which after reading here is way too much. So that plus the fact that I don't think HP may ever look nice, I also got really bad DOS(or I assume that's what this is). It looked ok for a day or two, then started turning brown. This is the only batch of soap that I've made so far that this has happened too. Could it be from the overcook?? Although it looks really ugly, it actually isn't too bad as far as soap goes. Or as someone else here posted a while back "It will still clean your butt".
Is anyone else brave enough to post some ugly soap? Or maybe I'm the only one who makes ugly soap.