GrandmaArial

PVC wraps are less permeable than low density polyethylene (LDPE), and will keep keep anything wrapped in it more air tight but have been found to release plactisizers (DEHA, DBP, and DEHP) into foods, in particular fatty foods, and the enviroment. As most organic based soap has a high fat content from super fatting I would say the odds are soap will probabaly be at high risk. LDPE, is less dence so not as air tight, nor does it strech or cling as well as placticised PVC, but it is considered safer and more enviromentaly safe. Glad Cling Wrap, Handi-Wrap, and Saran Premium Wrap are LDPE-based. I am not familiar with Sam’s Club plastic wrap, but as LDPE is cheaper to manufacture it is probabaly LDPE.

Great looking soaps. I particularly like the patchouli/honey.

Mine too!

How cute!

great pictures, love the props! And great looking soap.

Very pretty! The Spicy Apples and Peaches looks like my neighbors maple tree usually looks this time of year.

Congratualtions! You're off to a great start!

He’s a very intelligent cat. He will come, sit, stay, and roll over on command. He does know what “no” means… he just doesn’t care.

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Don't forget to post pictures so we can ooh and ahhh.

I think the color came out good for mechanics soap. The guys who use the mechanics soap I make complain its to "pretty" and girly looking (its slightly golden from the corn meal). Of course, they're mostly bikers...

I heard a crash… ran downstairs… found my cat sitting next to this looking “innocent”. Hubby can’t figure out how he did it. The set up with the dry wall and toggle bolts was rated at over 100 lbs. was about 10 lbs of gear on the shelf… cat weighs 22 lbs… I guess I need to find someplace else to set my light box up. Or just give up...

WOW! you made soap in your very own unique mold you make with your own two hands! Now that is impressive! Nice looking soap!

There's also a dove, a dog, and "onion head" (or a martian) and a butterfly... at least!

I'm relitivly new at soaping, so I may be wrong, but I don't consider it trace until the shape starts to hold. if you stop stiring when its just starting to show it can still seperate.

Zap is when you touch your tounge to the soap. If it is lye heavy you will get a burning sensation (simular to touching your tounge to a live battery). I don't like the taste of soap and have a fear of chemical burns on my tounge so I buy PH test strips. Hand made soap tests typically 9.5 to 10.

A loy less hassle than setting it up every few days! it was takeing me so long to set it up and then storeing it away that i only had a short time to actually try to take pictures. I was using the kitchen table so had to calcualte time to have it cleared in time for dinner... Hubby was getting cranky eating around the stuff... he's such a guy. doesn't mind me haveing to cook and serve dinner around his motorcycle parts but we must not have soap stuff in the kitchen!

The center is where it gelled and intensified the swirls. What you can’t see with my lousy photography is the swirls are through out the bar, a fine wonderful busy swirl that reminds me of frost on the windows. I want to make swirls like that!

I chose an 18” cube because of the space it would take. I wanted something I would be able to set up permanently. I knew setting it up wasn’t going to be something I would want to bother with on a regular basis. However I wish I had made it a little bigger, at least longer. Getting the soaps and props in the small space is a hassle. I tried taking it outside but between the breeze (which is always nice on our deck) pushing the box around and the birds (who are very friendly here) getting in my way it just wasn’t happening LOL.

And that was compleatly unsolicited... (OK Donna, I'll return your kittens unharmed now). I love your salt bar. I think the lather on both of our bars are about equal. And i miss bathing in the bahamas... I think I need a new another one of yours.

I didn’t make this soap, but would like your opinion… is it fugly or beautiful?

Donna, Did you miss thecandlepastor’s lecture on photography? LOL here’s the thread. http://www.candletech.com/forums/showthread.php?t=57465 . I learned a LOT! I can’t imagine trying to make a light box out of poster board. Try using a box and just use the poster board for the background. It was a little time consuming but not difficult. I think someone posted a link in that thread above with directions, but really, it’s all pretty much self explanatory. I sugest leaveing the flaps on like I did so you can bend them to block out the lights.

I promised pictures of when I got my lightbox set up. Here it is… finally found a permanent home for it. This is set up on a shelf in the hall in the basement. I need to make some adjustments, get the lights more to the front of the box, but other than that It works good. And yes, that’s a plain old incandescent bulb in the top light. The cat decided he needed to play with the flood light before I had things set up. The next two pictures are taken with this set up.

It's good on lobster too!

But do you get chocolate milk lather??????? LOL Citrus blast? That sounds like it should be yellow or orange... not chocolate brown! What is really odd about the cherry cordial soap is that the chocolate milk lather is reddish. I thought the red means I also over did the oxide in the cherry portion... but I tested some that didnt go in the chocolate, nic white lather. It has to be the chocolate. Sherry, isn't euginias sopas perfect? Her swirls always lok like they were painted on stroke by patient stroke of the brush.