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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???

 Risultati immagini per trash bin PICTURE In the bin! 
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