Teach Soap

So.... when last I visited this story - I was deciding to experiment with peppermint soap instead of the discooluring spearmint.

My order from NDA arrived today, so I started off on a new loaf of peppermint. hmmm, trying to decide on a colour for it as I looked around the workshop. I already have lots of soaps with green in them, and 2 new ones with a lot of blue...so I decided on the traditional, if Christmasy, red and white stripe.

I had this bottle of liquid colour from OT, called "Red Tulip". Looks great - decided on that. Well it turned the soap a bright cantaloupe colour. Gorgeous, actually, but not exactly pepperminty...so I decided to add some Red Flame Mica from NDA, which appears identical to Ruby Red Mica from the Conservatorie. That turned it a dark brownish ugly brick red.

Too dark? HAHA - no problemo!
Decided to add a little TD. Now it is an ugly pale grayish, tannish brownish red. Ok, let's add the rest of that Tulip Red liquid. Finally result is a lovely, truly lovely, dusty pink.

I decided to quit while I was ahead, and went with a dusty pink and white stripe. Not sure if it has ANYTHING to do with peppermint but it is quite pretty.

so far

Sounds like something that would happen to me. My colors never turn out the way I envision them.

I hate when soap doesn't cooperate! You can come up with a good name for it, like Pretty in Pink Peppermint, or something that goes with it. I'm sure it's the smell that will attract people anyway.

I typically make my most popular soap fragrance with a blue and cream color swirl. My most recent batch came out kind of gray and splotchy looking instead of blue and swirly. I ran out of the blue I usually use and tried to make due with another color, lesson learned. I sold all my blue ones and decided what the heck, I'll put these out anyway, and they are still selling very well. No one seems to care about the colors or the look, they like the smell.