Well, there is one thing I have to say about our social distancing summer, I'm getting a lot of projects done that I've been putting off (repeatedly.) For example just this morning I finally played that game of Sock Concentration (although you may call it matching up and reorganizing your sock drawer) in a desperate attempt to find a pair of matching no show socks to wear today.
Although I briefly considered wearing a pair missing mates, because no show socks, amiright? But hey, it's done, I'm wearing matching socks (also I'm wearing an actual shoe that requires a sock) and in a Marie Kondo fashion that I revised after the first go round to work a little better for me - I hope.
My last batch of liquid hot process soap came out with the consistency of Flubber and I've been putting off trying again since its failure. Projects have been keeping me sane since this whole mess started and soap making was the only thing left on this list. Also, the summer heat in the garage already melted my coconut oil for me and since melting my oils at too high a temperature was Step 1 in my last comedy of errors, I gave it another go.
I learned from my mistake of cooking everything at too high a temperature and my soap came to trace easily - almost too easily. In face the whole process was 180 degrees different in a good way from my Flubber batch. The thing about hot or cold process soapmaking is that even though the soap is finished, it really isn't done until it sequesters for several weeks as the chemistry continues to do its thing and it is ready to use. Overall I'm pretty happy with how this batch came out. So yay for learning from mistakes!
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