Posts tagged failure

Well, the water didn’t really disolve very well into the soap paste overnight, so after work yesterday, I decided to help it along by heating it up a bit. It went all amber and translucent with the odd bit of white thick/foamy stuff.

I forgot about it for a bit [ops!] and when I went back to it, there were lots of bubbles on top it didn’t seem to be thining so out came my trusty potato masher. This didn’t help at all, and in fact it seemed to make it even thicker.

I gave up [again] and left it.

Here it is this morning – it’s all thick again and the paste is clear.

Let’s see what tonight’s experiments produce! Soap maybe? I did find lots of lovely bottles in the bathroom cupboard all empty and ready to be filled with soap…