As I get to know my new soap studio… I am stumbling upon surprises with each batch lately. We can all read a book about soap making to get started… watch tutorials… listen to advice… but our soap won’t turn out the same as someone else’s as our ingredients come from different sources and our environments are so different.
Lately, strange things have been happening to my soap… my tried and true orange poppyseed set up on me for the first time ever. I couldn’t get those smooth-sided rectangular bars this time. So I did what I could with the tops. Pretty for photos and presentation, but not my favourite for using and previously would have made packaging really difficult. Swirly tops won’t affect our new packaging (I will reveal new packaging soon………...).
Then my lemon sea salt soap set up on me… yikes! This one got so hard I had to push it into the mould.
Now, my shaving soap looks like this? I know it will cure nicely and look uniform soon, but just so different from previously made batches of the same soaps.
I am using the same ingredients, the same tools, applying the same methods….
BUT - It has been uncharacteristically cold and rainy here over the past few weeks. I have never soaped in this studio in winter before. I am still learning about how environmental factors affect my soaps…
Thank goodness I am still learning. If I ever stop learning and being surprised, I am pretty sure I would get bored.
Happy soaping everyone!! xo Jen
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