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PostPosted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 2:26 pm 
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So my friend and I went to a soap making class today, it was really fun! The front of their shop has all their soaps for sale (oh-my-goodness-inspiration!) and you pick any scent you want. Then they give you a rectangle clamshell container with a base background color of your choosing (don't forget the margaritas) and then there's a giant playground of colors, cookie cutters, stencils, glitter, more glitter, more margaritas - it was a ton of fun!

They had a rack of long soap bars in all sorts of colors, she took a planar tool and ran down the bar to get long curly strips and that's what we used to cut out shapes/designs. Once you get all the embed objects you want in your container, then they scent a clear base and pour it in and you're done.

I know I've seen tutorials on BB for filling a small layer of soap base & liquid glycerin into the bottom of the tray mold and then once cool you can bend and flex it - but doesn't that harden after a while? (like in the pinwheel soap tutorial) I would like to know how this place had large bars of soap and could just shave off a long strip and it feels super flexible, bendy, kinda waxy I guess - not the best in describing it. Would like to be able to replicate that at home for my own projects. Definitely going back for another girl's night out, it was a cool concept of a store and right next to a pottery painting place that I love also.

Here's the rack of soap logs:

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Here's my finished product! Not too shabby for first time, lol. I picked a FO called "Surf's Up" so thought it was an appropriate scene. Whopping 10oz bars!

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And just for wishing - LOOK AT ALL THOSE! *dreamy*

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PostPosted: Fri Jul 06, 2012 2:30 pm 
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Pretty :)

Some "natural" MP bases stay very soft and flexible for quite a while.

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I have about 500 or 600 EO's or FO's at any particular time. My FO's are in PET bottles due to earthquakes. I actually gasped when I saw all those FO's in glass.

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I wonder if they just add a bit of water to their soap bases, to compensate for the moisture loss as it sits out? Glycerin would probably work too but may be sticky, I'd probably try either extra water or glycerin starting at 1 tbsp per pound of base and adjust from there.

Your soap turned out super cute, by the way!

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I wouldn't add water, that would increase your chances for mold. A little glycerin maybe, but just a little.

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