Focus and Breathe!

I was back in the kitchen today making up an eight-pound batch of Coconut Lime Verbena scented soap.

This is a wonderful scent that is not too coconutty  - and just the right amount of tropical.

It is easy to get a little "too" comfortable with soap making - as was the case today.  
I had everything all set out and organized and was ready to go.
Oils measured and melted.
Lye/Water measured, mixed and cooling
Colorants all pre-mixed and ready to go.
Fragrance oil all set and ready to be combined.
 
All good!  Mixed the oils and water/lye to a light trace and started to.....

daydream.....what was I thinking!  Obviously, I wasn't thinking!


I poured off enough soap into the two different colors I was going to use, poured off 1/2 the remaining soap into the two molds, swirled in my beautiful white colorant - perfect swirls.  (Spent the morning watching videos on how to get the perfect swirl.) Poured in the remaining soap and was ready to add my green swirl......and then it happened......

OH MY GOODNESS - Houston, we have a problem!

I completely forgot to add the fragrance oil.  So much for Coconut Lime Verbena - might look like it, but sure won't smell like it.


Get your head in the game girl!
 
I had about 10 seconds to figure out what I was going to do!

Focus and Breathe!

I poured all the soap from the molds back into the pot!  There goes my beautiful white swirls!  I gave it a quick blend with my stick blender and in went the fragrance oils.  Sure enough - those oils like to accelerate trace - time to get that soap back in my molds. 

In it went, the beautiful green went on top, did some pretty swirls and by the time I had the last swirl squiggled, that soap was setting up!

Lesson learned - one must pay attention when one is creating soap!

Here's a little sneak peek what the soap will look like - minus the white swirl of course! LOL!



I think you will really enjoy this soap.  Very pretty - even minus my beautiful white swirls -  and really smells great!