soap making - first experience

yesterday i made first attempt to make soap..i always thought it would be so easy-I mean how hard can that be- melting the basic soap and mixing it with aroma oils? but in practice it was much more difficult but interesting!! the hardest thing was that the soap would not melt...I had to stir it and wait for what seemed hours ;))) but in the end when i was putting the hot melted soap into containers to dry I felt like I had accomplished something great :))) Like i had actually created something..now I have to wait until I take it out of the containers and use it :)) i will try to post pics tomorrow