Saturday, September 5, 2009

Hardly a Master

Some have said that I'm a master soapmaker. At times, I would have to agree for instance, after making 2,000 perfect bars in a 3 day span - impressive. But today I am far far far from that.

As I was working on log numbers 24-28 there was a terrible turn of events. The pot was too hot, the lye was too hot & within a minute, soap that was beautifully lying in its mold started to volcano. Yes... bubbling, steaming, rising... Luckily I was near to stir, stir, stir & poke, poke, poke the soap back into its place.

After wrestling with the logs they finally started to behave. They are certainly not going to be the prettiest bars (watch, they'll be amazing and I'll never be able to nor would want to reproduce them) but they should work. Guess I'll be showering with that batch for a long while.

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