First Soap of the Year - What a Bad Start!

I went on a 2 week long beach vacation with family during the holidays, oh the sunny beach and warm blue ocean... ahh...

Back to reality!  Came back from paradise, partially bored, guess relaxing beach side isn't really for restless me.  I got eager to soap, can't wait to put my vision to work!  Everything seemed to work smoothly through the process, surprisingly no hiccups.  I even video taped myself!

An hour later I went to check up on it (because I'm restless and impatient) it started to gel in the center.  I usually don't gel my soap, no reason, just personal preference.  I thought it's winter time, temperature is already much lower than summer, no need to prevent gelling, well, boy was I wrong.  Once soap starts to gel, I prefer it to gel all the way to avoid having "power circle/oval" we the soapers call the partial gel effect.  My instant reaction was to turn on my oven for a quick couple minutes and use the the heat to force complete gel.  Well, I totally forgot I used melt and pour soap shell embeds on my soap top...

Seaside Cotton Soap, I now declare war on you!