What soapy thing have you done today?
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Test sheet for my lip balm labels printed perfectly so I went ahead and printed out all my labels. Turns out I put the labels in the printer backwards and of course I didn't look at the printouts until after I printed them all. There's no salvaging them. Craft sale tomorrow and those were my last sheets 
Poured my attempt at doing an Eve's garden type swirl. It might need two days in the mold before cutting as it looks like it might be a bit of a softee with 45% OO in it. Will upload pics when it's cut.
MarnieSoapien
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Zany_in_CO
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Wait a minute! If you did as I have done and printed on the wrong side of the sheets, that peels off when you apply them. Just put the sheets back in with the good side up and print again.
Beautiful! I especially love the red (my favorite color)!
Or they were placed correct side up but wrong side facing in the printer. I've done that but only with a test sheet. Very frustrating!
I know it won't help this time but, working in a print shop, what I do is print a test sheet any time you're putting paper in, any time you're about to hit print. It's better to waste one or two test sheets than to go ahead and print the whole batch wrong. So sorry this happened to you.Test sheet for my lip balm labels printed perfectly so I went ahead and printed out all my labels. Turns out I put the labels in the printer backwards and of course I didn't look at the printouts until after I printed them all. There's no salvaging them. Craft sale tomorrow and those were my last sheets
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Mtn5ro
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Loving the color thanks to modernsoapmaking, but what's with the oxidation? EO's lavender, geranium, bergamot, sprayed with 99% alcohol, covered & insulated in oven. Thoughts?
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Martha
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I also think that I didn’t pour closely enough down the side of the mold, causing the ombré not to be horizontal when I straightened the mold. Even though it wasn’t even, I really like how they turned out. This is my first round of colored soap that I like. Yay.
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I think they are very, very pretty! Great jobHere’s my first attempt at ombré. I have no idea how I got the blue “mountains “ in the corner, but I really like them. The spout on my ao gave zillions of little bubbles, which are highlighted by my using a wire cutter. Sigh. I will recut them with a knife or something that will minimize them.
I also think that I didn’t pour closely enough down the side of the mold, causing the ombré not to be horizontal when I straightened the mold. Even though it wasn’t even, I really like how they turned out. This is my first round of colored soap that I like. Yay.
@Martha - lovely! I would like to try and ombre soap soon.
Meanwhile I cut my 'Eve's Garden' style soap to find that, yet again, I was too heavy handed with the amount of coloured soap versus white soap. need to learn to be more minimalistic. It doesn't look as I had planned, but I'm still happy with it, cos it looks pretty ( no glycerin rivers for once!).
Meanwhile I cut my 'Eve's Garden' style soap to find that, yet again, I was too heavy handed with the amount of coloured soap versus white soap. need to learn to be more minimalistic. It doesn't look as I had planned, but I'm still happy with it, cos it looks pretty ( no glycerin rivers for once!).
Does buying FOs count as something soapy?
I sold a few today, there seemed to be lots of interest in them from the people that did stop at my booth. It was a good talking point with lots commenting that they had never heard of it before. That said, I didn't have much traffic today overall. It was a small sale, there was another soaper right beside the entrance and she did incredibly well catching people on the way in. I heard lots of 'oh, more soap' and walking right past. I was chatting with her later in the day, she said she has been there before and has repeat customers. I'm going to rearrange my booth tomorrow to feature my other bath products more to hopefully draw people in that otherwise might pass by if they already have bought soap. None of her soaps had any packaging at all, not even a cigar band. So no ingredients or weights or protection from people grabbing and sniffing.
@Misschief is correct. Lesson learned, i'll always be printing a test sheet from now on and avoid packaging after midnight when i'm tired.I have more ordered and hoping they will come in by my next sale
Mtn5ro
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I love them and think the organic forms are beautiful, good job.Here’s my first attempt at ombré. I have no idea how I got the blue “mountains “ in the corner, but I really like them. The spout on my ao gave zillions of little bubbles, which are highlighted by my using a wire cutter. Sigh. I will recut them with a knife or something that will minimize them.
I also think that I didn’t pour closely enough down the side of the mold, causing the ombré not to be horizontal when I straightened the mold. Even though it wasn’t even, I really like how they turned out. This is my first round of colored soap that I like. Yay.
Ladka
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This morning I unmolded the lard+coconut oil+3 other oils soap, with 56 % lard and 12 % coconut oil I made yesterday evening. How much differently it behaved compared to lard:coconut 80:20!
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Martha
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Thank you!
@cmzaha I do recommend the bubble doughs after all. I sold more of them today than soap. Kids would see the bright colours and come over, parents commented how they are good stocking stuffers and loved that it was something different they haven't seen before.
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