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My FAIL!

Scented White Butterfly. The main part is supposed to be blue, looking like a butterfly in the sky. It looked great at first, then turned in to this....

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Robin

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It's still pretty Robin. Did the blue just fade?

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Irena
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it just changed into this weird pinky purple color. I have a much better design that is black with a white butterfly.

I used Super Blue Mica from BB. No clue what might have happened to it.

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It was a darling idea, I hope you give it another try. Is it M and P? I've never see color fade in M and P. I have seen FO's and Eo's change the opaque quality of a color but not the color itself! Live and learn.

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Leave it to me to really screw things up!

Yes, please let me know if you can get it to do the same thing.

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darn, I should have taken a picture of mine to show, but I used my soap up. I used super blue mica too, and I used olive oil base and Tropical Vacation fragrance. Most of the coloring disappeared on mine too-you could see light shimmer, but the blue color was gone.

So here is my test.
The first photo shows clear M&P soap made with the Super Blue mica (and Lavender Mica) just 2 hours old - fresh out of the molds. In the top examples I just put 1 mini scoop (.15cc) in about 2 ounces of clear bulk melt & pour base. It was semi translucent. Then on the lower soaps I put 3 scoops in about 2 ounces of soap - making them really bright and opaque. I didn't use any fragrance. With the Super Blue I didn't see any fading over the 4 days. (But the Lavender went a little pink)

After 2 Hours

After 4 Days

So I wonder if your fragrance might be reacting with the color in some way? Or are they in a sunny or brightly lit room? Maybe adding a little UV inhibitor will help in that case. I'm going to put them in our sunniest windowsill now and see what happens. I love experimenting!

-Amber

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Bramble Girl
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This reminds me of the time I used Super blue mica to color my M&P. I did see fading but not totally disappearing, it just lost it's vibrancy, turned into more dull grayish color.

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Shieh Design Studio
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I really wish I had taken a picture of it but I totally messed up a bar of M&P soap by adding Dead Sea Salts! They totally disintegrated in the soap and went all these horrible hollow white patches in my soap. It looked so gross I was heaving and had to get my hubby to clear it all away. Even now it turns my tummy a little lol! Ah well you live an learn! Really wish I had taken a picture now...or maybe not

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Sarah x

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I think personally, the Dead Sea Salt just doesn't work in M&P when melted. It would have to be super cool I think for it to work but you're getting close to it solidifying then, but maybe that's not a bad thing - but every attempt by me so far has failed and the outcome as above.

Nah to Noni I recommended standard coarse sea salt, that seems to cope better with warm/hot M&P and withstands the heat and remains in tact.

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Sarah x