Now normally when your soap was "ready," that is, reached trace, you had to work pretty quickly. Not so with the room temperature whipped soap. Because there's no heat involved, the chemical reaction is very slow to start. This means that the soap will take longer to set up in the molds and be ready to cut. But it also means that you've got
plenty of time to color and work with the soap. I played with this batch for over 30 minutes and still could have done more with it.
For this batch, I separated the raw soap (you still have your gloves and goggles on, right?) into three bowls and colored each a different color. This gave me four colors - the three colors plus the brilliant white of the base soap.
Note: Because the soap base is so white, you will only get light pastel colors out of it - so plan ahead for this when you are dreaming up your soap and color combinations.
