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    Answers:  Lye Heavy,  Alkanet/ Ratanjot for colouring.    Here's what happened....  I wanted to - use up some of my soap shavings that I have been collecting. - throw together a new scent, maybe using up some of the Essential Oils that I need to use up before their due by date!  -  try out some new mould lining paper.  -  work with Alkanet/ Ratanjot in something new to see how it would come out this time... I love how it surprises me...   Soap Shavings - As for the soap shaving part, that was the easiest and most successful.  No problems, except when I was pouring into 3 moulds I had lined and it only filed 2?  What the ((!!))?  Could I have mis-measured........?   New Scent - Awesome.  Pink Grapefruit, Ho Wood and Vetiver..... nicer than I could have imagined and oh-so-intense becuase of mis-measuring....   Mould lining paper - found a fabulous new paper for lining the moulds!   Rece...

  Someone guessed correctly about what happened to this soap... Brighid's Witch (link?) - lye heavy, but no one has guessed correctly about the natural colour yet.  Once all is revealed, I will publish more about the experiment, the mistake, and the things I have learned...   Todays Clue:   I have worked with this natural colour before but NEVER with results anything like this.  This is not the usual colour that results.  I also need to mention that is has evolved and is turning greener...   So far the guesses for colour (none correct) have been:   Cambrian blue clay Woad, guessed Indigo Methylen blue Keep the guesses coming!!   xo Jen

  What do you think this is?   What natural colour do you think I may have been experimenting with?   What do you think may possibly have not gone as intented?   Trying to breath some life into this blog as it used to be so much more interactive... hoping for some great guesses!!   Happy Soaping!! xo Jen

200 soaps (192 to be exact)…. Incubating cozy warm…   This is the most soap I have made in 1 day.   We made 96 before 10am and another 96 after 8:30pm.   Since I have an open shop… I have to produce outside of shop hours!   Some simple trays we got out carpinters to make, to carry soaps around.   Then I had a productive working day in between.   Supposing I had more moulds, and the shop was closed for the day, I wonder how many I could make…? Maybe 400 or 500 if I was really pushing it… Soaps on our new trays...   I remember reading on someone’s blog, it may have been Patti Flynn’s… that she can produce 2000 soaps in a day????? Wow! What is the maximum amount of soaps you have produced in one day?    xoxo Jen