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I use a shampoo bar & always rinse with vinegar. I love it!

Soap craziness!!!!! Well a couple of weeks ago I made some soap & tweaked it...it came out very light & crumbly. It's soft, luxurious, but it is crumbs! Any ideas on what I can use soap crumbs for? I was thinking of making laundry soap, but that is only 1/3 cup of soap per 2 gallons of soap so...

I'm doing my taxes then making soap!!!

Awesome soaps everyone...they are amazing!

It's amazing what we do when we have a little extra soap! Great job!

Great video! Love the outcome!!

I find that using a stick blender brings soap to trace so fast...35 years ago I used a wooden stick, it sometimes took a couple of hours! I have been using the stick blender for just a few seconds, then manually stirring. It keeps the soap much thinner & pouring is much better. When I was almost...

Here is my latest tallow & olive oil soap!

I too have experienced much faster trace with pomace oil in place of evo or oo. I just use the stick blender much less, maybe just a couple of bursts & then stir for a few minutes just to be able to work with it. It really helps to stir more than stick blend.

I really like superfating with avocado oil. I use a soap calculator with 0% super fating, then figure how much I need for the superfating and add it after trace so the avocado oil doesn't have much of a chance to be taken up with the lye.

Beautiful! I too used to make it that way 35 years ago!!! I just made tallow soap on March 19, 2016 so it is now curing. I hope to post pictures of it tomorrow. tallow makes such a nice hard bar. I did color it & scent my recent batch. Thanks for sharing...

it's beautiful, & I too think there is some bleed going on...

Thank you!

All these cured & ready to go! Very nice & creamy...olive, palm , coconut & castor oils in all of these! So I got them photographed today!!!

I went back to my soapy roots and made a recipe from the distant past...one I started with in the early 80's...tallow & olive oil! It makes such a hard creamy bar & I was able to cut it in 20 hours! It was still warm, that chemical reaction still going strong. It is a soap which needs to be cut...