Teach Soap

Thanks everyone!!!!!

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Olivia :)

Well it's about time girlfriend! I haven't checked the board in a while and this is the first post I see. That's wonderful! And you didn't even set your oven on fire! Congratulations!

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Jennifer
Doing my best to blow up my kitchen. In style!

Well, when you put it that way, I guess I did okay! It's all perspective! Thanks!!

I made my second soap yesterday, which came out way better than my first one. The cut product actually looks like nice bars instead of irregular soap chunks!

But I have decided I don't like adjustable molds any more. If either of the two adjustable ends is just a little shorter than the other, or one side of the mold is tightened too much, the pieces are not snug and secure. Before I mixed my soap up, I thought I had the mold tightened and adjusted just right so it would hold. But when I poured the traced soap into the mold, one end kept bowing out at the bottom. And when I picked up the mold to move it somewhere out of the way to gel, the bottom of the mold fell out! The only thing that kept the soap from spilling all over the counter was the wax paper lining that held it up!

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Olivia :)

Congrats! My first set didn't turn out that well. It turned out that I wrote down how much coconut oil I had and I didn't out the correct amount in the calculator. We'll I have excess oil in my mold and not enough lye. Yuck! So good job! What oils did you use? The color is very pretty!

Thanks, Ginger!! I used olive oil, coconut oil and shea butter.

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Olivia :)