Posts Tagged ‘Soap’

My first fail! I’ve had a lot of ‘not quite 100% mini-fails’, but this is my first real, complete, FAIL! And I’m sooooo happy!

Why? Because so far, everything has been so, well, easy. It’s just come naturally, it’s made sense, it’s all worked out. If it hasn’t, it’s been close enough that I still wouldn’t call it a failure.

But that lucky streak… ended today!

My good friend ordered some of my Orange Essential Oil soap. While getting ready to make it, I wondered to myself how I could make it a learning experience as well. I already know how to make the standard bar, it was time to push myself and see what else I could do. As soon as I made that decision, the idea came like a lightning bolt. I was going to make the orange soap… look like a slice of Orange!

After googling for what I had in mind, I found some tutorials online and eventually stumbled onto a picture of exactly what I was looking for! This is what the soap was MEANT to look like:

Sadly, my first attempt looked more like the ugly, inbred cousin of the above…

Glaaarg…. meee ooooraaange /drooool

Flipping it over to the bottom side didn’t improve at all – although it did mask some of the ugly!

My second attempt was a little better. Aided by the immaculately timed delivery of my clear soap, I used that to help hold the pieces in place prior to pouring the white. Unfortunately I used too much clear, so there was no room for the white. Doh!

When all else fails with the sliced orange, just make… an orange!

That’s one big ball of soap!

I learnt a lot though! (Don’t I always?) The first major lesson was that $2.00 circle cutters from the local Asian-has-it-all shop does not cut it. As usual, no patience on my part and wanting to jump head first into the project saw me grab the first cutters I could find and that didn’t help. Now that I’ve gotten the first attempt out of my system however, I will go in search of the proper (actually round) cookie cutters and try again.

Use less clear base to hold it in, and get a proper round mold if possible. For some reason the ’4 shapes in 1′ plastic mold I had wasn’t helpful when it came to putting the cut circle back in. I had to really push it in to make it sit at the bottom, which I found weird as I had only moments earlier pulled it out of the exact same spot.

I do hope there’s lots of orange scented soap lovers in my circle however. Because I WILL perfect these!