Recent content by crimsonkite

Thanks very much! No, actually, this was the first time I'd tried rebatching... But it was basically half CPHP and half rebatch. And of course I picked the best looking ones for the photo, lol. I do love the molds. I picked them up at the Christmas Tree Shop for something like $3 or $4...

Uploaded with ImageShack.us The snowflakes are scented with spearmint and peppermint essential oils (at first they smelled like toothpaste, but it's mellowed out), the gingerbread men are goat's milk with oatmeal and honey, with cinnamon and spices (didn't hold the scent, unfortunately), and...

I've been curing my soaps in the basement (with dehumidifier) and mice have been eating them...

Unfortunately I didn't get a picture when it was bright orange (an excuse to try again! lol) but here it is now:

My first two batches both had DOS within three days, I was using tap water.

You guys'll never believe this... It stopped zapping! No trace of the vanilla, though. (Maybe I just didn't use enough! lol)

They say good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment... I wanted to do a vanilla scent. I have a vanilla bean, but read that it wouldn't keep the scent through being made into soap. I thought I'd have better luck with vanilla extract, but read that the...

Thanks :) Patience is hard... I'm anxious to start playing around and tweaking things (in my mad scientist goggles). I think I have a crockpot still in the box somewhere, maybe I'll dig it out and try some hot process...

Yeah, I couldn't wait for my soap to finish curing. The first batch was 38% olive oil, 31% coconut oil, and 31% lard, with lavender EO. The second was 100% lard, and both were at 5% superfat. They're both only about a week old, and they both left my skin pretty dry. Is that something...

Licking soap? Lol, I guess it gets even more exciting! Thanks :)

How long is the lye still active? Even after trace when it's going into molds? And don't worry, I did run everything through soapcalc and had my goggles and gloves and layers of newspaper everywhere. And then after I had everything to two decimal places I found out that the scale only went...

Crayola makes little tablets for colored bath water, and those are non-staining, but I don't know what they'd do in soap.

I've been reading various tutorials for a while, and finally decided to dive in and give it a go! I started with a recipe out the the Everything Soapmaking Book, with olive oil, coconut oil, and lard. But because I can't just leave well enough alone, and because a pound seemed like too much...

Thanks everybody! :)

Hi, I just joined. Made my first bar of soap on Sunday, it was pretty exciting. Let's just say it was a learning experience! I found my way to soapmaking through various other crafts... I'm an occasional knitter and beader, and just like learning how to do things. My mom had made soap a...