I have been very busy restocking all my handmade soaps these past few weeks and today was the day for making Cucumber Melon soap.  This time around though, I had a vision of this particular handmade soap with pink, cream and white layers.  It is tedious when making layered soap because each layer has to set up before pouring the next layer or the soap will run together and you won’t get clean lines between each layer.  This is the reason that I haven’t layered any soap in a while.  It just takes too darn long and I am a busy lady after all!!  I really should know better.  To save time I decided that I would pour three molds in a row instead of doing one at a time.  That means make a batch of soap, color it and then pour 1/3 into each of the molds.  Sounds good and should have worked but the 3rd layer which I colored green set up too fast when I got to the second mold.  It was like pouring thick porridge.  By the time I poured the last portion into the 3rd mold I had glop.  Just plain glop.  No amount of pounding, shaking or twisting the molds would move this soap around evenly.  I ended up using a flat edge trowel to try and even out the hills and valleys of wet soap.  I can tell you that when this happens it is an exercise in frustration.  I doubt I’d pass as a concrete finisher.   Hopefully, when I cut this batch of handmade soap up I will be able to even most of the bars out and end up with suitable and saleable bars.  If all else fails, there is always the “Ugly Duckling” box!

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