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'Second CP soaping experience: half a disaster...?' PART II

As promised, here you have my summary on the last soap I made... yes, the one with coffee and a really weird texture ! Soap unmoulding: 48 hours after pouring. Soap cutting: 2 days after I removed it from the wooden mold... 4 days in total and...   Soap slices do not look good...at all! :-/ The lower layer appears to be very soft and sticky (my fingerprint is well visible in the lower left corner)   ...and the upper layer is even flakier than 2 days ago (below you see the result I got after having gently squeezed a bit of soap between thumb and index finger). Soap facts: - very poor lather with any of the two layers - layers' weird consistency does not make the usage of the slice easy - pH of the two layer is pretty different: well below 8 for the white layer and higher than 8.6 for the brown one. GUESS WHERE IS THE SOAP NOW???   In the bin! 

Floating candles troubleshooting

More floating candles. Double coloured and scented with a strawberry fragrance. I was very happy about the result up to when I've lit them: they didn't burn longer than 5 minutes... I suspect it was some sort of a problem with the primed wick (I had the same problem with another candle).  Take home message : primed wick can vary from batch to batch, a cotton reel it's a guarantee of success!