Hi all!!! Haven't been all in a while. Just haven't had time to soap, but now I'm in full force!! The reason is my mom has opened a little knick-knack/gift shop and and wants to carry my soaps, soooo... I ordered a new mold WAAAAAAYYYY back in like april from a guy on etsy. It looked awesome. Well I wanted to not make any soaps for the store until I had this new mold so all my bars would be uniform, but here I sit stil;l waiting on this mold after multiple promises that its on the way. Yeah right!! The checks in the mail!!! So I ordered a mold from another guy Mr. Do Right on Etsy. Its not the slab mold I had originally ordered but its two loafs (3lbs each) and a cutter (which also could be lined and used as a 3 loaf) for about the same price I was going to pay for the other one slab. Its made of that plastic HDPE stuff and WOOOOWWWWEEEEE I love this mold. I just put a sheet of freezer paper downone side bottom and up the other side and these loves just come right off 24 hours later. I used the cutter blade to scrape the 2 end pieces of the mold off of the loaf and voila!! Ready to cut. He has a slab I want to buy next. So got these new molds last week and I'm back in business!! Decided to do all goats' milk soaps and had stocked up on that.......So far Thursday night I made a loaf of Coconut Lime Verbena, Then Friday night I made a loaf of Amber Romance and a loaf of Spearamint Eucalyptus. And finally Saturday night (thru several screw ups due to a scale who's battery was dying but I didn't know until too late) I made a loaf of Black Raspberry Vanilla, a loaf of Japanese Cherry Blossum, and a small 2lb batch of a Jo Malone nectarine blossum and honey (highly recommend). Well the Japanese Cherry seized, I could tell as I was adding the fragrance that it was clumping as the fragrance hit the soap, but I was able to squish it in the mold. Hoping I was going to be able to salvage it and just have interesting looking soap, I hope for the best. Didn't happen!!! Within about 20-30 min oils had started separating and sitting on top of the loaf, so that will be a rebatch for another day! Then Sunday night I went shopping!!!! Bought FOs......... Vanilla, Gardenia (yuk, but people like it), Sensual Sandalwood, Energy, Lavendar and Herb, Orange Ginger, and 2nd bottle of Oatmeal Milk and Honey, oh and a bottle of Dirt. By the weekend I'll be back in business. Also ordered the muslin bags that I'll package the soaps in and today I'm going to mom's so we can design the label (cigar band type) that I'll put on the soaps. So that catches me up to now. Whew!! Gotta get some pics huh??
