Here is my miserable story about the soap that is NOT going to make it to the shelf. Several days ago I made a double batch of Oatmeal, Milk & Honey soap and forgot to add the rice bran oil. Even as I was putting the oils together in the pot I was thinking that it was odd that I only had two liquid oils in this soap. I checked what I had written down – and there was my problem. I didn’t check the original recipe, only what I had written down!

Well, after the soap level wasn’t as high as usual in the mold, and the goat’s milk turned the soap orange, I realized my mistake.

I waited about a week to do anything about it because I HATE to re-batch. It’s such a pain. Especially with the enormous batch size that I make. Takes a lot of time, not to mention energy to use the oven. Well, Sunday afternoon was unseasonably cool, so I decided to just try re-melting one of the two logs. I started by cutting the soap into chunks that my salad shooter could process:

Then, I started feeding the chunks into the salad shooter. I used a pot that was plenty large because the shredded soap takes up a lot of space:

Next, I added the missing rice bran oil:

I put the pot in the oven at 200 degrees for about four hours. I pulled it out to stir every hour or so. This is what it looked like right before I put it in the mold:

Then I smashed it back into the mold:

Tried to cut the soap, and it’s super crumbly now:

I’m guessing either I didn’t cook it long enough, or I should have added some liquid. Either way, Clean the World is about to get another box from me. I’m done messing with it!!