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Think I'm in trouble

Ever since I poured my first cp soap into a silicone mold and actually had success unmolding, I have gone crazy looking at molds. Got 2 for my bd and now I've decided I need more I soap at room temp anyway, so most of the heavy duty milkyway molds even work out, what possibilities guess I better watch it though, it'll be like my fo sample collection---need more of those to

http://www.soapgoods.com/Colors-c-100.html There you go

Anyone use any fragrance oils from them?

Didn't use anything other than fo, maybe that was part of the problem, it might have had a yellowish tint, didn't think about that till now, and I rinsed out the mold and dried it but didn't wash in soapy water, maybe I should've tho. Like you, my silicone molds are used only for soap making, but I did see one that I'd like to actually bake with

Do you think the mold had something to do with the soap turning yellow? It was a red wilton cake pan. Oh, and I will try your way doing the thermal transfer, thank you

Christmas Day from Glory Bee Foods. Very strong, good hot and cold throw. I used it in J223 wax a few years ago. Haven't tried it in GB464 which I am testing now. I'd like to find a closer supplier tho. Haven't found a fo yet that would be similar to Christmas Day and I've been looking for a while.

Someone gave me a few pounds of uncut, unwrapped base they had gotten at a thrift store for .25, it had originally come from walmart and i think its been some years since they have carried m&p bases. The "clear" base had turned a little yellow, and some of the edges were a little gummy, I felt that they were too old, hubby suggested to try melting to see what would happen. I started melting in the microwave and it was hard to melt, but finally melted down with a few chunks that didn't melt and a skin started developing on top of the melted soap in the microwave so i added scent and coloring, poured into a mold. I let my soaping bowl and spatula soak, instead of of the leftover soap softening on the tools so they could be rinsed, the soap hardened , I ended up scapping it out of the glass bowl and throwing that portion in the garbage, I was afraid to put it down the drain, it was rock hard. After finally getting that cleaned, I checked the molds, I ended up breaking one of the molds to get the soap out , By this time, I was throughly disgusted and threw soap, broke mold, unused base out

Maybe so, I poured into the silicone molds and unmolded with no problem. But, the soap turned a light yellow, I wonder if it was the molds or the lard? The lard may have been a little old, but it soaped just fine and bars are curing now.

I was worried that I wouldn't get the basic process down when I started working with temps but since I mostly use room temp, I dont worry so much anymore, its a lot less to keep up with for me.

Thats what I do with some of them, and I have tried some of the ideas and I like them

I like using lard in my soaps, just seems to be easy to work with.

Thank you for your suggestions, going there this weekend, will look and see whats around.

Thank you, I do agree with the creativity, I've gotten some good ideas from the book, now if I can find the time

I can get it cheaper at walmart, to which I replied "please do"

you would think so, judging from the oldest book (70's) your right about resources, research, etc. I have some old 70's candlemaking books, but the basic info is the same, some interesting ideas tho

beautiful candle. going to try this, your instructions seem be easy to follow. thanks for sharing

I've had the books around 9yrs or so, believe it or not, it didn't occur to me to do that I guess the only reason to use it now,might be for ideas on ingrediants, but that remains to be seen. One book was from the 70's, hope that wasn't the info put out at the time, I couldn't say what made me decide to question the lye methods in both of the books, except I thought something wasn't right, when I checked another book just by chance, it turns out they specified the same thing, so I checked all of my other books again and rechecked instructions on this board (thank goodness for the board), I'll be more choosy about the books or recipes from now own, I ordered one from Amazon, so far its a keeper, even kept the receipt for returns just in case I did however throw out the book on candlemaking by one of the authors of those particular books, the info in it was questionable and at the time, I was looking for info to get started with, but never used it.

Just ordered and received a book by Anne-Marie Fiola, the Soapqueen. So far, I love it. She uses Palm, Coconut and Olive oils in her most basic recipe. What could I substitute for the Palm oil? Its not that I wouldn't like to use it, but I am trying to stick to oils that I can buy at the grocery.

The Thermal Transfer was probably what I've been attempting to do to, not intentially at first but it worked, and I did use this method for a recipe with Lard as well. it started tracing for me before I started stiring, which was a little shock till I recognized what I was looking at I've tried it only once, I usually let all oils and lye water sit overnight. But maybe because I live in the south, that could have something to do with my temps?

I tried weighing all of the oils , hard oils included, in one container and added the lye water immediately after it was clear to melt the hard oil down, and it started tracing before I could stir but I blended it all together, which seemed like seconds and poured into the mold anyway, soap hardened and released with no problems, all seemed to well with it.

I have the smoothest process with RTCP, like Jcandle. I learned early on that as long as your fats and liquids are mixed well (emulsified?) you can pour it into your mold. Trace isn't always needed. So far, its worked this way for me to OLDGLORY

Thanks everyone for your replies Its interesting to see what works or not works at RTCP. I have measured all the oils and poured lye onto the hard oils to melt and found that trace was very quick and I tried just letting everything set overnight and just barely melting the hard oils before I add the lye mixture and prefer the second of the two. I've had great results out of both tho. I dont soap in big batches not over 5lbs at the most, but like playing with 1 lb batches just to experiment and find what I like. Old Glory, I understand the caution you take tho but I'd be impatient if my batch took several hours, I guess thats the other reason I like RTCP so much.

your right I'll keep them.

Is there anyone using the room temp soapmaking method? If you do, what do you like about it ? If you've tried it and don't like it, what is it you don't like about it ? Sometime back i read a posting about soapmaking at room temps, did a little more research and decided to try it. As I am a beginner, meaning I just do the basics, nothing advanced like swirling(someday , this method of soapmaking intrigued me. I am using Olive oil, coconut oil and veg shortening. I've good results so far out of about 6 batches made. I don't dye my soap and so far the fo haven't created any problems.