Teach Soap

Since the thread is now missing, (which don't mind, I am just grateful for the forum being up again! yea ) I thought I'd update you all. As you may recall I had two bad nights in a row of soaping. The first night I [may have] left out 5% of the oils, so, on the advice of SoapBuddy, I decided to cut it up and use it as an imbed, and on the advice of onmysoapbox, I kept most of it to cure and hope that it will be a bar that some like, even if it is only a 3% sf.

So the next night I set out to make a batch of cotton blossom soap with lavender imbeds, thinking I was sooo vary smart! But, as soon as I added the FO I had instant soap on a stick, then it began jumping out of the pot faster than I could scoop it into the mold. The top of it looked terrible and was extremely dry. And, again I was very frustrated with the gremlins. However, when I cut the cotton soap it looked very nice on the inside, so now I think it will be okay. Today then, I rebatched what I managed to get off the counter the other night (good thing for me I had clean counters! ) , and it is currently in the 12 bar silicone mold from BB. It looks kind of ugly on the top, but not nearly as ugly as the original, and its not flaky either, so I guess I will see when its ready to come out of the mold. Here is the cut soap on a stick soap, not too bad, is it? I will put pics of the rebatched ones up as soon as it is unmolded.
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Remember, it's not just that we weather the storm, but how we dance in the rain.

Tammy

Looks like a good save to me!

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Irena
Closed minds are like faulty parachutes; they refuse to open.

Thanks SB, I think it worked out and now I have 2 batches of it Hopefully the rebatch will come out ok too. If it hadnt been so much I would have just tossed it. In fact, I almost did, but I hate to see so much waste of good oils! Oh well, that was teh first time I had ever had that happen, so I guess I was long over due! Now...if the little creatures will kindly go somewhere else, I would greatly appreciate it!

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Remember, it's not just that we weather the storm, but how we dance in the rain.

Tammy

Tammy, they look great! I love the cotton blossom FO (mine wasn't from BB). I also had a problem with it accelerating trace, but still had enough time to do a sort of swirl in the mold.

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Linda
I know the voices in my head aren't real, but they sure have some great ideas!

Tammy, I think the tops sort of look like cotton blossoms! I like it. I also had two gremlin batches.... still waiting to see what I will need to do with them. (the soaps not the gremlins ). I think they have left my house... DH went to Fl and I let them crawl inside his suitcase!!!

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Susie
Sometimes A Mistake is so much fun, You just have to do it again!

Ummm. . .I'm glad I don't live in Florida!

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So many oils, so little time.

-Cathy

LJM, mine wasn't from BB either, I am glad you had time to do a swirl, but I definitely didnt have ANY time to do anything. It wasn't crawling out of the pot, it was jumping and running! In fact, I had so much on the counter, I made a rebatch pot too. I guess that will teach me to not venture away from BB!
Bubbles, since I don't live in Fl anymore, I am glad you sent them down there! I hope he doesn't bring them back with him though! And, thank you, after looking at them more, I think I like your description and will borrow it! Cotton blossoms on the cotton soap! Works for me! Onmysoapbox, when they get too hot down there, they may come your way.....be careful!

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Remember, it's not just that we weather the storm, but how we dance in the rain.

Tammy