What am I going to put my salad in now?!! Tell me that! |
On the plus side, I did manage to get some semblance of soap out of it, so we will see what it is like when I unmould it tomorrow (I used turmeric in it to make it a different colour! And a blend of cedarwood, rosemary and ylang-ylang essential oils. It smells DELICIOUS. It is worth making soap just for the way it makes your house smell). And now I am a living example that you can have a Lye Disaster and live to tell the tale, so let that be a lesson to you all.
Note use of exciting natural colourant. I wish you could smell it! It's amazing |
I am going off now to have a nice cup of tea and watch something mindless before cleaning the kitchen from top to bottom, because otherwise I will probably manage to drink water from the glass I measured the lye in or something really dim. So if you see a warning item on News At Ten regarding home soap making and the potentially tragic consequences, you will be able to say, hey, look! I read her blog!
(Or at least I used to…).
4 comments:
Yes! - I have definitely noticed that - I think it's where I stop taking extra care because I've done it a couple of times, yet obviously not enough to make the process second nature. On the positive side though sometimes this phase is where you make fortuitus errors as well and find out it sets better actually if you forget to add the thingy - or double the amount of lemon is even nicer. Can't think of a good spin on a lye spill though - are you still there Susie?...Susie?
Unfortunately you are sooo right: can't master a skill without messing up a few times. It sounds worth it though, as I'm imagining the delicious smell.
LOL you have the goggles, gloves etc ...right ??
What a coincidence..I went to a soap-making workshop this weekend. My finished product looks much like yours! I wrote about the experience just this morning...
http://mightydistractible.blogspot.com/
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