Breaking out my old mold...

I was sorting and cleaning out my "soaping closet" the other day and happened to spy my slab wooden mold.  I have not used this baby in a while and decided to give it a go.  It was sort of nice and kind of neat at the same time.  I found myself lining it and remembering my first soaping experiences with this mold.  You see when I first took on this crafting addiction I went a little crazy and started to purchase everything under the sun....

I bought large molds, thinking...I am going to make tons of soap!  Little did I know that it would take me many soap batches before I was comfortable and happy with my soaping recipe.  Little by little I have learned that in the soaping world when you are just learning small batches is not all that bad :).

So there I was, remembering my little disasters and "oily/soft" soap when I realised...hmmm...did I just weight all my Goats Milk with my regular water???!...The plan was to split them in half.  Add my Goats Milk to my oils and mix 40% of the water with my lye.  Well, so much for that!

I had all my ingredients sorted and spread out.  I really did not want to freeze the Goats Milk/water, so I decided to risk it and prayed that the lye would not scorch my milk!  I placed my lye container in an ice bath and added the lye little by little.  It actually was not bad.  It did turn a little goldish brown, but not very dark, so I think I may have gotten lucky!

Here is a picture of the final bars.  I used "Butterfly Hugs" fragrance oil from Natures Garden.  A mix of apple blossom, lily of the valley and rose petals. It's really nice and soaped very well. 

 
I must also mention that I really had a different idea for the design.  I saw this cookie and cupcake decorating set at a store recently, and I got so excited by all the things I could do with it!  Not to mention that I found it in the sales area :). 

Only problem was that I did not wait long enough for the soap to firm up and as a result it ended up a runny mess all over the top of soap.  That did not go very well...so I had to improvise, and here are the results once I was able to pour it in the mold.

 

 

Not bad...I must say that I enjoyed working again with this mold.  It was fun to take a walk down memory lane.  I may just try soaping with it again on my next try :)

 

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HAPPY SOAPING

Roxana