kestagano04

Those look awesome!

I use a serrated bread knife too.

Same here... Especially when I try something new in my loaf mold. I can't stand to wait too long to see how it turned out. Which is why my favorite part is the cutting.

Could it possibly be this? http://www.craftserver.com/forums/showthread.php?t=8020&highlight=coating+m%26p

Here is a thread about M&P... Actually nevermind, not really the same thing. I'll look around a bit more to see if I can find what your talking about.

You can buy glycerin at your local Meijer for about $4. It's near the band-aids. It's a smaller bottle, but for me it's a good size because I don't make a large amount of soap.

It is a small world...

We live in Ferndale just outside of Detroit. I see you are in Allendale... is that in western Michigan?

You would use Dr Bronners to increase the bubbles/lather in your soap.

I have had issues with only one of my liquid colors leaving flecks, the ultramarine blue, but that only happened a couple of times and it was a very small amount of flecks. The rest of the colors blended in perfectly.

I'm sorry, I was wrong about the size, I have the 1/2 oz bottles. When I purchased mine I made sure that they said non-bleeding in the description, and they also have a key at the top of the glycerin dispersed liquid colors page that you can follow... "N" = non-bleeding; "C" = cosmetic grade; "S" = stable in high pH such as cold process soap and "M" = will morph (change colors) in high pH such as cold process soap. So an example would be... "Ultramarine Blue Liquid Concentrate NCS" Ultramarine Blue is non-bleeding, cosmetic grade, and stable. I haven't had any issues with bleeding, and I've been very happy with the colors. HTH

Out of the colors in that sample pack I have used... Tomato Red Neon Yellow Neon Green Ultramarine Blue Black Oxide I also use TKB's Chocolate and Lavender I purchased the 1 oz bottles and chose colors that would not bleed. I think TKB's prices are good and the cost of shipping was fair. I would recommend them.

Ecosoya PB with a bit of J50.

Thank you ladies!

That's how it is with my Ocean Breeze, it never turns out the same way twice. Once again... very pretty soap. Thanks for sharing.

I love them! I've been tempted to try embeds like the circles in the banana cream pie soap and the leaves in the grass soap. Is it difficult? I love the look of the lime and coconut! Did you use a method of swirling similar to what you do with CP in the top layer?

Soooooooooooo pretty! I love the color.

Thank you everybody! I really appreciate your kind remarks.

All melt and pour First - my newest version of Ocean Breeze Second - Green Tea and Lemongrass Third - Cucumber Melon Fourth - Lavender Cucumber Sage Loofah Fifth - (Plain Jane) Sun Shower Thanks for looking!

Here is a picture of a soap log with embeds made from the type of molds I am looking for...

Thank you CareBear. That's similar to what I'm looking for, but not exactly what I was thinking of. I could be wrong though, it's been a while since I was last looking for that type of mold.

I'm trying to find a site where I can purchase shaped insert/tube molds for embeds. The type that you can make an embed with that would go the length of the loaf. I know I have seen them in the past while web surfing, but I can't seem to find anything now. I am especially interested in a pine/Christmas tree shaped mold. Can anybody point me in the right direction? Thanks!

Candle Science here too!

Very cool! You did a great job.

I have never had any issues with goat's milk going rancid in my soap since I've been adding it. I don't sell either and plan on continuing to use it as an additive.