Teach Soap

I made the clouds and grass soap from the Soapy Love book. When I used the soap a few times in the shower, the top is lifting off (not all the way off yet).

What did I do wrong?

Thanks.
Lori

I haven't attempted to make this, (too scared!!) so hats off to you, but it might be one thing in particular, and someone please, if I am wrong please correct me. Did you make sure that you sprayed all of the things that you were supposed to spray with alcohol? I didn't do this particular soap but once when I was making MP with embeds, I forgot to spray the embeds with alcohol so the layers came apart.

Sonya

This weekend I made some layered soap that looked lime a lime jello dessert. It was beautiful and fun looking! I made it in a small loaf pan. When I went to cut it into bars with my wavy cutter - the layers snapped apart! I now have a pile of white and a pile of lime green and a pile of creamy green layers on my countertop. What did I do wrong to make these layers not stick?

If you sprayed with alcohol, it's possible that you waited too long between pours.

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

I agree, layers not adhering are usually due to lack of alcohol spritz, too low temp when pouring or sticking the soap in the fridge or freezer. There is a great video on layers here;

I am really new to soap making but it seemed to work for me now. Previously I had tried to speed up the cooling process by putting ice water below my soap loaf (the soap making videos from soapqueen warned us that the layers will come apart if we were to speed up the process in the fridge so when doing layers, it is better to leave it to cool in the normal room temperature) and the layers came apart after a few washes or when I was cutting it.

When I cool it in the normal room temperature for my subsequent batches, it seemed to work better for me, the layers are more adhesive.

Oh and as pre warned by the videos, we should not use soap bases from different vendors to create the layers as they tend to be of different quality and do not gel well. I am hoping embeds are more forgiving as I have some left over soap base that I want to use and I do not want to risk the layers coming apart so I will try embedding it. Hopefully that works

Thank you all for the great info! I learn so much from this forum!!