Teach Soap

I made a 50oz batch of shaving soap, and had just poured it into my nice new heavy duty column mold. I was tapping the air out... and WHOP! The dog shoved me!! One hand went one way, one hand went the other, and the soap. Well, the soap went SPLATTER! All over the counter, drawers, floor and me. Oh crap.

1) get the dog out of here!
2) wipe the lye heavy batter off my bare feet legs and arms (No, I didn't get burned. Not even red or itchy. My skin is seemingly lye proof).
3) collect as much batter as I can off my nice clean counter and scoop it back into the mold. I managed to scrape up probably 40-45oz.
4) wipe up the remaining soap batter, which took almost an entire roll of paper towel, this stuff spreads out thin!
5) clean the surfaces well with cleaner.
6) tap the soap in the mold, and put it to bed.
7) wash labcoat on heavy duty, alone in the washer. What a waste!
take a shower to remove residual lye.
9) shake head at self for not paying more attention to the location of the dog.

So everything is fine now, no burns, no more mess, and I still have a decent amount of soap in my mold. In the future I think I'll tape the cap on the mold. You can't push it on all of the way because it becomes nearly impossible to remove, but apparently I had it a little to easy to remove. Oops?

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~~Heather~~
Mad [soaping] Scientist

Oh my!

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The Soapinatrix! *whip-crack*
- Posting the trials and tribulations of my Soaping Journey!

Oh Goodness, I am so glad your ok.

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Dawn

I'm glad you're ok. Please lock the dog in a room somewhere til you are completely done. What if the raw soap got on the dog?

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

I hate that happened and so glad you're okay!

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Lisa
“What soap is to the body, laughter is to the soul” ~ Yiddish proverb

Now that is scary! As long as all is well, a lesson was learned right?

I gotta admit - good save though At least the counters were clean right?

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Making soap one loaf at a time - it's better than bread 'cause soap doesn't have calories!

Usually the dogs are in the basement, but Rainy was freaking out so I let them up. Never again! Luckily my FIL was here and grabbed Rainy before she could get into it.

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~~Heather~~
Mad [soaping] Scientist

I'm jealous...we have no basement What we do have is a maze of baby gates and REALLY strong legs from hopping over them...and a few bruises from times we didn't quite make it....

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Making soap one loaf at a time - it's better than bread 'cause soap doesn't have calories!

So glad to read that you, and the dogs, are ok. That would have scared the living beejezzes out of me.

Glad to hear you and Rainy are ok. Scary!

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

Glad you're ok and Rainy too! That would scare me silly. Good save though.

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Linda

I learn so much when I can't leave well enough alone!

Oh, Heather----so glad you are okay! I'm glad you shared, because that is an excellent reminder/warning to the rest of us!!

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Carrie
Wife to my Best Friend and Homeschool mom to 7 beautiful gifts

Oh my god! Glad to hear you and the dog are fine, and 40~45 out of 50 ounces ain't bad. My skin, at least that on my hands, seems to be similarly immune to short term soap batter exposure. When I was a kid extracting my own lye from ashes I got addicted to that slippery feeling of lye water on one's hands.

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Just call me "Apo"

The saved soap turned out SUPER well! I love BBs new ! I will be extra attentive at putting the dogs in the basement when I soap, at least until I have the workshop set up! Then I'll have a door I can close to keep everyone safe!

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~~Heather~~
Mad [soaping] Scientist

It occurs to me, that possibly, the temperature gradients caused by throwing it on the floor and later scooping it up, may have resulted in a one-off specially wonderful soap that, in future, can only be made again by means of hurling batter on floor (ducks below wall)