I’ve been making handmade soap for several years now So much so that now I consider myself a professional soap maker. I live and breathe handmade soap. Right now I’m in soap mode. That’s what I call it when I’ve got a boat load of soap to make and not a bunch of time to get it done. It never fails that when I am this busy I mess up. My soap molds are custom made of silicone. They insulate really well. No more wrapping box molds in layers of fleece to keep the heat in. The silicone does it for me. Years ago, when I first started to make soap I read about “alien brain syndrome” on Kathy Millers Soap Making website. I got my very first case of this making my Rosemary Mint Soap last week. I stacked my molds. BIG MISTAKE. Now, I do know better. I really do. Apparently, my brain wasn’t working entirely that day and I forgot not to stack the molds on top of each other. Alien brain syndrome is caused by over heating and that is exactly what happened to 12 pounds of my freshly made soap in the middle mold. In this case, it not only is unsightly, it isn’t usable because the soap overheated so much it separated which means that the lye solution leached from the freshly poured soap. Oh Well. Stuff happens!

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