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Does anyone know what wire I need for my goodspeed soap cutter? it’s a big old multi bar one, it came with a spare that I used last year and I snapped another wire earlier this month (don’t cut salt soap with a cutter if it’s been sat out for a week!!!) and I can’t contact the seller as they’ve...

I just found some little bottles of essential oils from when I started making soap, the best before dates are all just passing/passed now in 2022, but it feels like such a waste to just throw them away - most of them have been half used, they smell fine, the citrus ones are maybe a little weaker...

I just saw this (very late!) Highly recommend around here, especially around the coast!

How do people keep their pillar/column moulds upright to pour in soap/keep them upright once full of soap? When i’m using 1 or 2 I put them in an old jar and lean them against my wall, but i’ve chipped a jar and marked my walls and I feel like there’s someone out there with common sense who has...

Thank you for the advice, i’ll check out their videos - I’m currently focusing on selling soaps, but hoping when I have some time I can learn about candles properly - my soap client changed his mind on candles for now (which i’m sort of glad, I think if he asks again in the future I think i’ll...

ooh, using citrus EO to slow trace is interesting, i’ve had very little luck with any FO all the once’s i’ve tried trace so quickly - I’ll give this ago, this is very helpful advice for me! thank you!

Hi there! I might be able to help, although i’m not really sure what brut is! If you let me know I can do some searching and see if I can help :)

For anyone curious - the culprit was the may chang EO, I had to make some guest soaps and they turned out just fine, so all my oils are fine (phew!) which only leaves may chang (or my micas, however I use them so much and have never had issues so I can rule them out)

I use refined - I’m going to make a plain, unscented batch and if anything goes yellow i know it’s one of my oils, if not i’ll assume it’s the may chang EO

I use olive oil pomace, which I know has a tint to it, however i’ve never had issues with it effecting colours, it’s normally quite mild even in plain soaps - i’ve been using the same olive oil from the same suppliers almost the entire time i’ve been making soap (I get almost all my ingredients...

I found a battered bar at the back of the cupboard (I normally keep them in a box, not sure why this one was out :( ) the designs a bit messy but you can see the colours well! Just may chang! From the same suppliers as last time, probably bought the last bottle and made that batch about a year...

I don't know if I have any of the original batch left - I will check my bathroom cupboard when I'm home and add a pic if I find a bar though! That's the order though - I did wonder if it had overheated, however it hadn't cracked on top at all, which is normally what happens! I've never had...

I’ve made this soap once before with no issues (other than it setting quite quickly, which I expected again for this time) and this is my second time making it, the only change is I added less may chang EO and also that it’s very warm everywhere (I don’t know how that could’ve effected the...

Oooh, coconut and peppermint sounds lovely, are you in the UK? I'm yet to find a decent coconut FO (in fact most the FO I ended up testing weren't great, we went for just EOs, not sure if there's something to using FO that Ive missed maybe!) I had a lady who really wanted coconut B&B soaps and I...

Hellooo, I've never made candles before (other than a cute little candle kit I had when I was younger which I adored) and I'm trying to research as I have a soap client who would like candles to match his soaps - the scent is lemon, cedar wood and ginger, I can't find any ginger FO, if anyone...