Soap Makers Help!

[chiknwhisperer]

The chocolate is 4 3/4 and that sandalwood next to it 5 1/4 . Thats not to bad is it? I really like how the chocolate turned out. I think that is the best one I've done.

 

[Morgaine]

Mine turn out around the 5 oz mark too. The salt bars are all over 6 oz though. I think I like the larger size bars better than the guest size one I was first doing.

 

[chiknwhisperer]

The same here. Although my MIL seems to think I should stick to the fancy ones because according to her the ladies at work like them better. I might do them every now and then but I'm not doing them constantly. Once I get really good at swirling she will change her mind. She is really all about ladies liking dainty things. She doesn't realize that there are a lot of women aren't like that anymore. I know the women she works with and most of them don't care if the soap was made in a fancy mold or not. That part is all my MIL. Here is a perfect example. For my bridal shower I wanted to put tools on my registry. She told me not to because that was not appropriate for a lady. Mind you my MIL is far from a lady when it comes to having gas lol

 

[MissPrissy]

Those dark bars look great!

 

[chiknwhisperer]

I'm really pleased with those ones. DH said I cango ahead and apply for the farmers market season instead of doing it week by week

And I sold two more bars of soap today

Sales are slowly starting to pick up.

 

[MullersLaneFarm]

I always use my vise-grips to pull the dividers. I start with a divider closest to the side and work across to the other side. Pull up on one end of the divider a little, then the other end. Back and forth. As you use the mold, the easier they are to pull up.

Swirling in a slab mold is so much easier ... at long as your soap isn't too thin or too thick!

 

[Morgaine]

Cheeptrick, was it you who used juice to color your soaps? Have you ever used carrot juice? If you have, what % as you liquid and what color was the final bar? I'm planning my breakfast bar and I was thinking of using carrot juice as 1/2 the liquid with buttermilk making up the other half. I was going to use egg yolks (1 PPO) and add grits for texture with a touch of honey.

What do all you other soapers think?

 

[chiknwhisperer]

I'll have to go search for my vice-grips then. I do the working back and forth of each end of the dividers it was just really stuck in there this last time.

 

[MissPrissy]

Cornmeal would be a finer a grit for every day use for females. Hardworking outdoor construction type males benefit from grits more as an exfoliant - I have found.

 

[AK_Button_Mama]

while I was making my 2nd batch of soap I kept thinking about that movie fight club.......does any one know what I am refering to? how yucky that would be to make soap with the fat he used!!!

BLAH!!!!

I have to admit I have plenty of that kind of fat laying around that I could spare to loose!!!!