What soapy thing have you done today?
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The rest of what I already ordered ... before deciding no more spending until I'm back at work and see my March 1 check ... came today. White Kaolin clay, stearic acid (yikes, can't believe i'm going there), glycerin, activated charcoal, meadowfoam seed oil. So, I should be ready for my first LS batch, but not feeling too motivated today. That probably means that I'm not mentally ready for trying a new soaping technique, and things usually go badly if I force myself into something when not really in the mood. Plus, cabin fever, snowed today and quite cold (I haven't been leaving the house much for 3 weeks anyway) -- plus my mood is never great when I feel broke.
I hear you on the stuck in the house thing. Our snow blower stopped working and with all the snow we've had that was a pain. Hubby shovelled only enough to get his car out of the driveway, but didn't shovel a path from the garage door to the clear part of the driveway. So for at least 2 or 3 weeks I felt like I was a prisoner in my own home. I am beyond the age and motivation to walk a mile in the snow to go grocery shopping. I used to do it a few years ago, but just don't feel like doing that anymore. Finally he got the snow blower working when I started posting about it on FB and tossing out hints that I was tired of being a prisoner here and started hinting I'd be taking his car to the grocery store before he goes to work in the mornings.
Donee'
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Run out of oil
I am sooooooo frikken grumpy - will go drive over something to get rid of the tension.
Similar to PMS.
I am sooooooo frikken grumpy - will go drive over something to get rid of the tension.
Similar to PMS.
Ahh, so there's Some value to FB after all!?!!
So much bad advice on videos, even people we think 'should know'!!
"It doesn't really matter whether you pour lye into oil, or oil into lye, at this point..."
At WHAT point, dude?? YES it does matter -- lye goes into oil, not vice versa!!! Grrrrrr
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These are GORGEOUS! The colours are very pretty.
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I made two soaps last night because church was canceled. One was an ombre soap with dot embeds that I had meant to do for the Jan challenge. I didn't gel it so it wasn't willing to come unglued from the mold at lunch. I probably should have gelled it so the new soap would stick to the old soap embeds better. I forgot to do it - I had just finished the second soap when hubby came home with dinner so I ran upstairs quick to eat but never made it back down to the soap dungeon to wrap everything up. Second soap was a test batch of BCN's Lemongrass FO and a run through of the Farm Show demonstration that I'm doing.
Tonight will be doing dishes and possibly doing some cleaning. I have far too much crap in my soap lab.
Tonight will be doing dishes and possibly doing some cleaning. I have far too much crap in my soap lab.
Martha
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I just had my first soaping mishap. I made a recipe using beef tallow that I rendered. 60% tallow, 15%CO, 5%Castor, 10%AO and 10%OO. I was soaping at 120F, with the lye water the same temp. As soon as the lye hit the oils it started what I can only think was false trace. It formed a ball of glop immediately. I tried mixing it some more, but it was like thick pudding. I hadn't added any eo or colorants yet. I managed to separate the batch, color one half and add eo to both. It was a total glop-fest. And it smelled like the tallow, which I don't like. I will report back to say if this mess ever solidifies properly or not. Sigh.
Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I'll admit that I didn't know what to do. I've since read that if I kept stirring it would have thinned out. I stirred a bit, so hopefully that was enough to get the reaction going.
Any thoughts or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. I'll admit that I didn't know what to do. I've since read that if I kept stirring it would have thinned out. I stirred a bit, so hopefully that was enough to get the reaction going.
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Hi Martha, you might want to start a thread on this, either in Beginners or The Lye Forum, whichever you feel is appropriate, because it likely will not get much attention here. I've been told by one of the long-time people (or maybe it was an admin) that people only read What Soapy Things Have You Done Today when they have a lot of extra time.
Martha
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Everything about the soap I made is cracking me up with its beefy-ness.
1. It's made from and still smells like tallow. Albeit peppermint beef.
2. It looks like a marbled steak, so I've joined the hamburger soap club.
3. If you look at the two soaps on the bottom, they even look like cows facing each other.
I figured that while I was struggling with getting the glop in the mold yesterday, I might as well add a line of blue mica between the colors to see if I could make it look like veining in stone. Ha ha. It just looks like cow hooves. Hope this ridiculous soap makes someone smile today.
1. It's made from and still smells like tallow. Albeit peppermint beef.
2. It looks like a marbled steak, so I've joined the hamburger soap club.
3. If you look at the two soaps on the bottom, they even look like cows facing each other.
I figured that while I was struggling with getting the glop in the mold yesterday, I might as well add a line of blue mica between the colors to see if I could make it look like veining in stone. Ha ha. It just looks like cow hooves. Hope this ridiculous soap makes someone smile today.
Dawni
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I see the cows! Hehehe
Still cute, though
Still cute, though
Martha
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Moo!I see the cows! Hehehe
Still cute, though
Marilyn Norgart
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haha I see the cows and the raw meat!!!! interesting look--I wonder if I would have thought it looked like beef it it hadn't been pointed out?
Martha
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You are very sweet to say that. My husband burst out laughing when he saw it.
Martha, I love these!! I'll trade you my meat soap for these, yours are much prettier!
The cows made me laugh for 3 minutes (a hootin' and a cacklin'). You couldn't do that again if you tried!!! (That's what I always think when something unexpected and cool happens.)
You even got the legs and hooves!! Hysterical!
The cows made me laugh for 3 minutes (a hootin' and a cacklin'). You couldn't do that again if you tried!!! (That's what I always think when something unexpected and cool happens.)
You even got the legs and hooves!! Hysterical!
Martha
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Looks like Japanese wagyu beef, which costs around $150/pound. Soo...I just made a super fancy beef soap. Moo.
Made soap yesterday, but I can't show it to you yet ... shhhhhhhhh. It's my "one and done" for the Feb Challenge. I think i like it. My HP behaved a little badly (I think I just don't know how to do it that well yet -- I think I still need more water or something), so I didn't get to do Exactly what was planned ... but I struggled through it and managed to attain "close enough." I think it will be good enough. So there! Last soap for a while until I get off my hind end and make the LS.
Alfa_Lazcares
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Made my second wine soap because that wine was getting old and I was not gonna drink it.
Would that we could all be as glamorous as Frankenfurter when we soap!
I personally have plenty of antici.....
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