Teach Soap

I discovered that the temperature of my oven with the light on is about 81 degrees. Yipee. My slab soap gelled. No ash because I covered it with saran. However, the saran laid on the soap and left a funky looking texture. Since a slab is new to me I am not sure how successful I will shaving it off. Hey. What the heck! I will call any step forward an improvement. Next time I might just spritz with alcohol.

I just spritz liberally with 91% rubbing alcohol.

You can hold the soap over a tea kettle with a mitt to steam off any excess ash. Some folks say use a moistened nylon to rub it off, but I don't have any of those around here. I've also heard of people lightly rinsing tops to remove ash.

I recently bought a wire cheese cutter on a board. Since the soap was still soft I was able to skim off the funky tops. For the first time I noticed the cracking that soapbuddy has mentioned with the use of TD. I might reconsider using it.