Get it? Surprise, soaprise. Ok, maybe that wasn't funny but it got your attention did it not? I was showing my mom my boxes of soap squirreled away in the corners of my dining room. She was excited and wanted to try them all. I opened a shoe box hidden in the corner of the cabinet in the dining room. The cabinet once held my extra dishes and bowls. They have been relegated to a cardboard box destined for the basement. My soap supplies now overflow onto the floor and lurk in the corners of the room. There are big bottles of olive oil, tubs of palm oil, and now a rather large and unwieldy box of coconut oil. Now back to that shoe box. Mom swooned over the contents, as any good mother should do for her only daughter. I shrugged and said well, it was a batch of crock pot soap that was rather soft and the color is kind of odd. She excitedly grabbed it and gave it the sniff test which it passed with flying colors.
As I picked up a bar I remembered my first beginning steps into cold process soap making. The first bars were nothing special and some even landed in the trash. I put these odd colored, rather mushy bars aside because they seemed better than any previous batches even though I was not altogether satisfied with the outcome. As I felt them and sniffed them I realized that they had hardened up rather nicely and the colors that once seemed so hideous weren't so offensive after all. It was these bars that left me disappointed with crock pot soap. The results just weren't as pretty as true cold process.
Having used up my recent new test bars in the shower, I stopped off in the dining room for a new bar. I decided to try out these forgotten bars. Much to my surprise, they are actually quite nice. They produced a great lather and were harder than I ever expected them to be. They left my skin feeling soft and clean. Perhaps I had dismissed crock pot soap too soon. Maybe I will try again.
If nothing else, I now have a box of soap that is worthy of distribution. Maybe I need to dig through the cabinet more often.
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hi rena, i've tried crockpot soap a couple times and although I prefer the texture and look of CP soap, the crockpot soap is really nice! I like that it is ready so much sooner, I'm a bit impatient, and the fragrance seems a bit stronger as well. Enjoy your soap making!
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We are almost done with our bar of your crock pot soap and I LOVE IT! I keep thinking "I need to convince her to start selling this stuff because I don't want to give it up!". I never knew why you wrote that batch off - the smell is lovely, the color is nice and they are wonderful bars! We love our Rena soap - thank you so very much!
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