Saponification Sunday...Easter, Eggs and Tiger Stripes
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Well. Amy Warden has done it again. Challenging soap makers around the world. she drives us all towards being the best we can be.
Once again, I failed.
Not miserably, but enough to feel a little soaping shame. The first challenge in this round was the “Tiger Stripe” The technique is well demonstrated on Amy’s blog and appears simple enough but simple is as simple does. Whatever that means. Sure, it doesn’t look too bad from a distance but proof is in the (close-up) pudding.
I followed Amy’s directions and began pouring soap. My “thin trace” lasted all of 15 seconds. I blame the Annetto powder as the soap portion colored with it got thick fast. One thin line became a thick line.
But I was still able to pour one line within another line as she had demonstrated. But they were thicker than I wanted. That is when it dawned on me that large 20 cc syringes would probably work very well for this. I’ll use them next time.
By the end of the pour the Alkanet colored soap was thick but still pourable but the Annetto batch was globular, meaning thick as globs. I decided to let the whole batch gel under towels but the top got too hot so threw it in the frig which gave me a very ugly partial gel.
YIKES! To add insult to incompetence, the bottom began to chip when I cut the soap this am. Strike three for this soap. Oh wait, the EO’s proved too strong and smelled more like Murphy’s wood soap than the light and airy forest scent I was aiming for.
Strike four.
But…I did love the blue color I got with the alkanet and I did love learning another technique. I’ll try the Tiger Stripe again later this week and share what I hope will be improved results. In the meantime, I am posting this batch on Amy’s Blog just to make the others look even better.
Because I’m all about Martyr Soaping, that’s why
2013-03-31 18:46:46
Source: http://midlifefarmwife.blogspot.com/2013/03/saponification-sundayeaster-eggs-and.html
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