commoncenz
Well-Known Member
I had remembered what type of swirl I was attempting. lol .. I was trying a tiger swirl for the first time. Was also my first time using an actual wooden mold. I've been itching to use this mold since I ordered it and was supposed to wait for the oils and butters I ordered last Sat to arrive. Buuuut ... what could one batch using my old recipe hurt right? I mean I had the ingredients on hand ...
Everything was going well when the soap gods decided to have a little merriment at my expense. First, I never questioned what possessed me to place the wooden skewers next to mold. Neither did I blink an eye when my son engaged me in conversation as I was pouring the three different colored batters into the mold. Nor even pause for thought when, still talking to my son (the topic one that fully engages a father and his teen son; baseball - in our case the Pirates), I absent mindedly grabbed a skewer and began slowly pulling it through the soap batter from side to side. I was halfway through the length of the mold before the "What am I doing" moment hit ... hard.
Tiger swirl? Not after that ... So, this is what I got. A somewhat smudged looking thing that looks like it "would" have been a nice first tiger swirl if it had been given half a chance.
Somewhere the soap gods are laughing at their gentle reminder that beginning soapers should ALWAYS pay attention throughout the ENTIRE process of soaping.
Everything was going well when the soap gods decided to have a little merriment at my expense. First, I never questioned what possessed me to place the wooden skewers next to mold. Neither did I blink an eye when my son engaged me in conversation as I was pouring the three different colored batters into the mold. Nor even pause for thought when, still talking to my son (the topic one that fully engages a father and his teen son; baseball - in our case the Pirates), I absent mindedly grabbed a skewer and began slowly pulling it through the soap batter from side to side. I was halfway through the length of the mold before the "What am I doing" moment hit ... hard.
Tiger swirl? Not after that ... So, this is what I got. A somewhat smudged looking thing that looks like it "would" have been a nice first tiger swirl if it had been given half a chance.
Somewhere the soap gods are laughing at their gentle reminder that beginning soapers should ALWAYS pay attention throughout the ENTIRE process of soaping.