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So here is another sorry story.

Well I have had more failed soap in the past 6 days than my entire time soaping over 300 batches! Gak. It kind of gets to you, but I decided I'd work on it until it somewhat respectable.

Here is the first batch of cp cucumber melon. Wasn't traced well enough or fell out of trace no pics only of the rebatched soap. 170 degree oven in SS pot for 80 minutes check every 20 minutes, stirred at 40 and 60 minutes and poured into mold at 80. No zap ugly color.



Next days new batch, get up on the pony and ride. Pretty soap but forgot the Shea Butter and this batch would be lye heavy.



Into the SS pot with the left behind oil and on the stove top to rebatch. Didn't incorporate well so added a little more water and into the oven. 80 minutes and out comes the batch a little lumpy but workable. While waiting I made a small white batch with different fragrances! LOL Thought I'd add it for contrast and well oops.



Well I think I poured the white batch in too soon and it hadn't traced or perhaps the heat of the oven hot processed blue scared the oil out of the white and left an oil slick. I think the trace didn't hold as you can see a layer of oil at the edge of the mold. It oil slicked up or seperated as they say. But No quiting!



Next tried CPOP's hoping the oil would reintegrate. 170 degrees in oven for 60 minutes. No luck.

So I mix the mess of white and blue together into the SS pot and really mashed it up and mixed it to death and well it looked so sad when I put it into the molds. 2nd failed oil seperation.




While cooking this re-re-do I cut and colored the first failed cucumber soap I had on hand. Cut and colored a few. Threw pieces of the first Cucumber Melon in it for some fun. I think I saved these 3 failed batches that went thru the works! Family and a few friends who live on the edge. Think I'll call it the Phoenix Soap.



What do you think? I think I better start looking at and paying attention to my trace #1 and #2 mark my recipe twice, once when I weigh out ingredients, and once those ingredients are added to the pot!!



Oh and take a break from all things soap for a while until the traveling Gremlins are off!

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~bytheSEAsoap~ Mella bythesea, bythesea, bythebeautiful sea

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WOW! That overwhelmed me without it happening to me. I never heard someone say "it fell out of trace"???

I hope your gremlins have moved on.... but not to my house... I had them last fall, its someone else's turn

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

Oh gosh~ What a disaster you've been through! I don't want the visitor, don't come to my house! I'll have to make a huge sign in my kitchen saying no gremlins allowed!!!

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Wow, mella - you've had a time! But, for "failed" soaps - they look lovely!
I don't want the gremlins either. They've already visited me this year.

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

Looks like a good save to me!

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

Looks very pretty in spite of all your tribulations! I am a new soaper and am a little afraid of when the gremlins inevitably come knocking...

Eek! Sorry for your gremlins, but that's a great recovery! Reminds me a bit of a Klimt or Van Gogh painting or something

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CP newbie who's turning into a soaping addict!

Thanks Jenova and Malaliath and SB! It was a self challenge. Honestly I was not going to pursue it any further I was tired!

The gremilins are on their way to Timbuktu!

Here is today's adventures in soaping. Shell Ginger Flower left and Plumaria right a pinky orange color (hope it stays).
Pic later it is still too big the refresh isn't very fast!

I love the last pictue. Looks like an abstract painting Very cool!!!

Jeannine

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Jeannine

~the journey is everything~

I Love the look of wet soap in a mold and your colors are great as well as the textured tops. I also hope the pinky orange color stays for you! So now you can say you beat the gremlins??

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

well, the gremlins left Mella's house and came to mine. I tried my hand at whipped soap and it didn't whip up enough, so I put it in the mold and walked away feeling defeated. It didn't gel and thought everything was going to work out in the end, but alas, I was wrong. I colored half the soap with pink ultramarine (used it several times in the past) and left the other half white. The pink soap cracked. I mean it looks like the desert! Cracks all over the top, only on the pink though, the uncolored looks fine.
I have no idea what happened, but I left some wine for the gremlins today, so I hope my next batch works out.

Thank you Sweatpea and welcome to teach soap!

Oh no Denver I swore it was headed out to sea. I think that wine glass is a good idea perhaps I'll try that next time! LOL

Susie isn't that a pretty wet bar, well check out this video, that bar ended up with 1/8 inch of ash on it! The second loaf, same batch not a bit. Has to be the fragrance ginger souffle ashes.

Thank you all for hanging in there with me. Here is a lovely batch to make up for all the trials!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xFCFWZCZmnA

Here is a double dare video I made of soaping the first soap after the little beasts left to the west with the wicked witch!

Thanks for making the video mella, it turned out great! I'm glad the gremlins left.
I think I saw an image of soapbuddy on one of those cut soaps!

Mella, you are so sweet in your video! Soaps are gorgeous. I can't wait to make something so beautiful. Cool cutter too. Hope you make more videos

Jeannine

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Jeannine

~the journey is everything~

Mella, loved watching the video! The soaps turned out very well... great swirl with the blue and white. That was soooo sweet of your husband to buy the soap cutter for you.... I am truly jealous. Any time you want to do another video I will watch!

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