Evaporated Milk Soap - Midnight Woods

Normally I soap with items I find in my kitchen but since I don't cook with evaporated milk I wouldn't go out of my way to get it.  A couple weeks back I was shown how to make Malaysian Laksa noodle soup which uses both coconut milk and evaporated milk.  I got one extra little can to spare, so guess what?!  Into the soap it went!

I freeze the milk into ice cubes then dissolve lye slowly with the ice cube I made.  It was all going well until I got distracted by the photo stealing incident, see this blog post: Truth about Watermarking My Works

Then I totally forgot about the evaporated milk lye solution in the ice bath!!!  By the time I saw it again it was after dinner... and the lye milk had gone to very thick and burned a little to tan.  I didn't want to waste the milk, melted my oil and butter really quick and proceeded to soap making as planned.  Since now the lye milk is looking tan in color I'm not sure if my color scheme would still work.  I took out my titanium dioxide to lighten up part of the batter and add some tan mica to the other portion trying to increase the contrast.  This batch moved fast because of the thicken milk lye.  I couldn't do the intricate swirl I originally planned to do because by the time all 4 color batter poured into the mold it was not moving at all.  I told a thick stick and swirled it anyway thinking it couldn't be worse.

I was pleasantly surprised the next day when I cut the log.  I took a normal cut and it looks the way I expected to get.

Then I tried to cut it the other way and found an interesting pattern I've never thought of making!

Now let's see the top

I named this one Midnight Woods.