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Another 3.5x2.5x1.25" here, I was cutting my bars at 1" thick and just didn't like the way they felt, that extra 1/4" is nice.

I'm not a fan of straight patchouli at all but I adore it mixed with amber, I use the amber FO from Southern Garden Scents 1:1 with patch, mmm.

Thank you. The mold is a Soaphutch, oh how I love that mold.

Hi there, I've not posted much here so far, have done a lot of reading and looking at everyone's pics instead, so I figured this can be my pic introduction. Scent is Green Irish Tweed (yum), colors are POP micas from TKB, and the photos aren't stellar since they were taken with my phone and I had to use the flash.

Anyway, this is my best swirl to date, and I'm really happy with how this batch came out.

One of the prettier bars:

This one didn't get as much of the darkest shade of green pulled into it but I like it anyway:

The best part is that the entire house smells like this soap, I'd never smelled this FO before and I absolutely love it! Thanks for looking.

For Christmas I absolutely love SGS's Smokey Mountain Christmas Tree. It smells like a Christmas tree with just a tiny bit of mint to make it "cold".

Ooh, lovely soaps. I'd looked that one up on the SRB a while back and a review there said that it turned dark brown. Good to know that it doesn't, now I need to order some!

For my own peace of mind, though, I think I am going to lock the lye in some kind of small safe and place it high in my kitchen cabinet!

You can find lock-ready toolboxes that work quite well for that, and they're not especially expensive. I picked up a nice little Stanley tool box that accepts a small (luggage size) padlock at ACE Hardware for next to nothing. We used one for prescription meds when our son was very young since the house we lived in lacked a secure medicine cabinet.