Today, I took yesterday's soaps out of the oven to unmold.

*The Grapefruit unmolded easily but there was lye water surrounding the soap, and it was really soft.  I'm not sure if I just didn't mix the batter enough or what.  I threw the soap into a slow cooker and rebatched.  (So, technically I actually did 8 batches this weekend.)  I let the soap warm up and melt back down and cooked it all for about an hour so all the lye gets saponified with the oils.  It's never gets as liquid as the first time.  It was like putting thick apple sauce into a mold.  I put the rebatch into oval shaped silicone molds, which I unmolded and trimmed up later in the day.

*The Sandalwood came out of the Staples plastic box with some coaxing. 

*The Olive type soap took a lot to get out of the mold, some time in the freezer to try to shrink the soap, sliding a knife down the sides, and lots of pushing on the bottom.  Finally came out of the mold. 

These soaps are now curing.

Green: Olive Type, Red: Sandalwood, Orange: Grapefruit rebatch

I made 4 new batches today as well, again experimenting with different colors, fragrances, base recipes, and molds.

1. Dream type (like GAP scent) Fragrance Oil (FO) with blue oxide in a Nutter Butter cookie tray

2. Peppermint Essential Oil (EO) with brick red oxide in a Pringles Can

3. Sweet Pea FO with ultramarine pink oxide in silicone star molds

4. Fennel EO with a black oxide and titanium dioxide in the pot (ITP) swirl using the Staples plastic box which I coated with mineral oil, which doesn’t saponify.

They are insulating in the oven now. 

Peppermint is in the
Pringles can – round soaps!
Sweet Pea is in the star molds
Dream type is in the
Nutter Butter cookie tray, back right
Fennel is in the Staples plastic box, front right

Hopefully
I'll have photos of the unmolded, cut soaps soon.

I'll unmold and cut them tomorrow night.