… and that word is SCORE!!!
Late Sunday night I was able to take my first batch of soap out of the container and after I saw the one video that you have to be careful of bubbles – well let’s just say I wasn’t so hopeful on how it was going to turn out. I mean these people who make these videos have been making soap for a long time now right? And they must know what they’re doing. Well, I was pretty nervous and excited at the same time when I took the top cardboard off the soap. And guess what? It looked like it worked. Oh yea! I hurried up and took it out of the mold (my bread pan 🙂 ) and put it on some parchment paper. I was so proud that it actually worked that I couldn’t cut it right away. I made Daryl look at it and then I looked at it some more. I walked around with it for a little bit.. well you get the picture I’m sure. It was the coolest thing ever.
Oatmeal, Honey, & Milk soap
OK, but now I need to cut it. The instructions say that you can cut it with a soap cutter (duhh) or you can use a miter box. Or you can just use a knife. Since I didn’t have the soap cutter or the miter box – I opted for the knife method. I guess that I could have bought one of those other things, but with the amount of money that I have in this one loaf of soap so far, I also could have hired someone to come to my house and not only cut the soap, but also probably could have made it for me. But seriously, where’s the fun in that right? Back to the business of cutting my soap. I wasn’t sure how this was going to cut, but it worked pretty good. My bars weren’t even, but that’s just because I was just so happy that it turned out and didn’t care at the time. And do you know the best thing? Well, I counted the amount of soap bars that I got after I randomly cut them, I found out the I had gotten 12 bars. Yup, just pure luck – but that’s what the book said you were supposed to get. After all these years, I’m not so sure why I didn’t do this sooner. Now what should I make next?
Letting my soap dry for a month is going to be hard