My garden soap is made using poppy seeds and oatmeal. It's scented with orange and patchouli and it's a very popular soap. I love that it's cleaning (action of poppy seeds) and soothing (oatmeal).
Hi and welcome to this amazing forum.
I'm a Kiwi living in South Aussie and make a few different soaps, including a castile or my daughter who has psoriasis.
If you're having fun and your soap is great to use ... don't be concerned.
Due to the cost, I keep my ingredients simple. I chose the oils and butters I use after a lot of research, including decision like no palm oil, no animal products etc.
I always make my salt bars in individual moulds, so I don't have to worry about the 'window of time' for cutting them. They unmould easily whenever you have time and you have lovely salt bars ready to let cure.
I call in every now and then ... mostly to look at all the fantastic photos. Not sure what happened yesterday, but I decided to stop for a little while.
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There's many ways of doing swirls, depending on the kind of result you want. When I do layers of colours, I usually do a 'coathanger' swirl as that allows the colours to move into each other. My favourite type of swirl, for ease of use is the ITP - in the pot swirl. If I'm adding two...