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Thank you so much for all of your help!!! I'm totally addicted to soaping now.......I absolutely love it! I'm hoping I can eventually combine my cake decorating skills with soaping to create some fun and unique products. Now to figure out what to do with all this soap so I can make mor without...

So, you're saying I could have gone higher then? I actually measured the out with teaspoons into a small dish to weigh them. The teaspoons were just a mental note to myself for ratios of them. But, I understand what you mean about weighing them out and not measuring them. Anyways.....that's...

I'm wondering if gelling it caused it to flash out a little. . I used 48 oz. of oils and added a combination of tea tree, eucalyptus and peppermint for a total of .95 oz of EOs. (4 tsp. peppermint, 3 tsp. eucalyptus, 1 tsp. tea tree oil). According to BB calculator, that would have been...

I used BB fragrance calculator for it.....which is why I'm surprised that it has faded soooooooo much while curing!!

Hello,mim trying my hand at adding fragrances to my CP soaps, since I e now got about 10 batches of unscented under my belt. I made a batch of peppermint poppy seed foot scrub soap, using BB EO's (combo of peppermint, eucalyptus, and tea tree EO's) at the moderate to strong scent level...

I would ultimately like to start selling at markets as well..... Just a little here and there. I have given away lots of soap already for teacher gifts and mothers day gifts. I need to start looking into the regulations for labeling and selling soap in Texas. I don't know if I need any special...

Yes the wait is killing me!!! And I have been making lots of soap- hubby keeps asking me what I'm going to do with all of it!!

Thank you!! That's what I felt too..... I just wanted to make sure I wasn't off base!!

I'm fairly new to soaping and have been experimenting with different recipes and methods. I'm totally addicted!!! I've done about 8 batches CP,HP and oven processed. Is there really a difference in curing time in the different methods? Am I correct in thinking that if a soap goes through a...

There isn't any water in the recipe at all.....raw shea butter, coconut oil, almond oil are the only ingredients (if I'm remembering correctly off the top of my head). I know shea butter has a fairly short shelf life though. I would like to give some as gifts to family and friends. How much...

Hi there, I recently made some amazing shea butter body butter for my own personal use. But, I know that it does not have any kind of preservative in it to prolong shelf life. I did add a small amount of tea tree oil to help with bacterial formation, but I know in order to help it last longer I...

Thanks for the replies! I did boil the alcohol out of the beer first, and let it sit for a couple days to get the carbonation out of it. It wasn't the beer that caused the problem....it was the shea butter. I had the same effect on a different bar that I used 25% shea butter in.

I'm fairly new to soap making, but I'm totally addicted and obsessed with it already!! I've made about 6 batches of soap in the last month. I have been using the oven processing method because I'm too impatient to wait!! :shifty: The last 2 batches I made, I added raw shea butter to it along...