Cold process is SO soft. It takes a LONG time to cure. I think it will be two or three months before it hardens to my liking. I'm not going to unmold anything else for quite some time. This is 3 days old and I can still see wetness on the nose of the sun. This is very brown because I added powdered cinnamon. Quite a bit of cinnamon. I didn't really like the way the essential oil for cinnamon smelled, so I wanted to do the real thing. It might be a nice exfoliant. Also can see hints of orange around the edges from the organic carrot 🥕 juice I made; added about 2 cups of carrot juice at trace. I may try doing frozen carrot residual added to lye water next time. If you add lye to room temperature carrot puree, it will just burn it and probably destroy the beta carotene. I want to produce antioxidant-rich and gently-exfoliating soaps. My previous soap batch included frozen pineapple puree added to lye water and it was probably good to do it that way. The color didn't carry over, unfortunately. The pineapple actually turned kind of orange. I was hoping for a yellow shade with the previous batch. Maybe if I do pineapple juice and room temp puree once trace is achieved, the aroma and color will carry over. Essential oil trial run 1: sweet orange. The scent is there, but mild. I saw that adding cornstarch can apparently carry scents through. Might try that some time. Ants 🐜 kind of like this batch. 2 or 3 ants have been hanging out around this batch. I hope none of them got INTO the bars...are ants nice for mechanical exfoliation? 🤔 #coldprocesssoap #homemadesoap #juicing #vegan #superfatsoap https://www.instagram.com/p/CBQ05gQHJ6TMkTcaE1nOQI8k5GN3c61zpmlFDo0/?igshid=b0bosri1wgfr