For some reason, completely unknown to me I have been unable ( for 4 whole days and nights) to send emails!! ARghhhhhhhh Now I am back on line I can respond. Firstly thank you all for taking time. My vibrant purple patchouli bar was not with its problems! but I have never had leakage like that before, cripes! Mandy - yes out there and hippy I can relate to that, interesting weird, - cool and Thanks for using my soap outside, have u posted photos of your outside bath? Louise - I use a rubber loaf tin/thingy and use the rounded corner pieces myself or give away, thank you for using the word vivacious and all the positive comments and ideas Ross - the colour from soapcraft - violet, thank you for your encouragement. Lizzie - Soapmaking is definitely a fun thing for me, so am glad you picked that up from the bar. a mixture of reviews regarding lather, smell and colour. Question I was concerned about your comment Ross of rancid or 'offness'. I actually only scented the glyercine in that bar and there was minimum of that (gylercine- the clear matching purple bits) which was why it wasn't a particularly smelly bar I do have a question to you all about freshness of oils and how long do they actually keep for? How long have they been sitting at the suppliers? I would swear non of my oils are rancid at the start. Thank You All