Recent content by fatpigeon

Naming Help Don't they already have names? I don't know if you should be renaming your employees.

Hehe I like the little soap henges. Welcome!

That is SO COOL!!

Yeah. The gods of soaping sure were smiling on me. So lucky! Seriously wish I'd filmed it somehow, it truly was a spectacular reaction. And one I'd be happy to never ever duplicate. Definitely lesson learned! I wound up adding my honey at thin trace/emulsification. I'll have to try adding it...

Oh wow they look awesome. I love how the mica stands out so well against the charcoal - great colour choices!

My buttermilk honey oat soap recipe that I'm tinkering with uses honey at a whopping 5% total oil weight. I can't remember where I initially got that figure but I like the colour and faint smell it adds to the finished soap so I've been sticking with it. Aaaaanyway I recalled seeing a thread on...

Panic stations! Panic stations! (yeah I procrastinated and now I'm behind on my soaping schedule. Thank goodness today and tomorrow are going to be cool-ish, I can crack out a few batches. I hate soaping when it's hot.)

I know that the Modern Soapmaking website had some info about using botanicals and the like for colouring soap - that's where I got the info I used for making an alkanet infusion. Might be helpful: http://www.modernsoapmaking.com/join-jo-coloring-soap-naturally/

I couldn't find that one on the Nature's Garden website. Is there another NG that I'm missing? Thanks for the recommendation. I had a quick play on the NG website and it looks like I'd be paying $35.55 US for shipping. That comes out to almost $50 for me for shipping alone - better than most...

I'm sorry, I don't know how to better describe the fragrance. I was cleaning out my old shower gels and stuff the other day and came across a bottle of Palmolive Naturals Shower Milk in Milk and Olive (a discontinued product but I was able to find an old listing here) and I'd love to try the...

I've tweaked the recipe a bit. Would this be a better balance? 30% Tallow 20% Olive Oil 15% Coconut Oil 10% Avocado Oil 10% Sweet Almond Oil 5% Castor Oil 5% Shea Butter 5% Cocoa Butter This is mostly just a result of playing around on soapee.com with the oils I have available. I'm open to any...

Would adding an exfoliant give you the effect you're after? Something like pumice perhaps?

These look amazing! I particularly love the top two.

Hi Susie, I've found multiple recommendations on best usage rates for coconut oil so I was going with 20% (having seen that number pop up frequently). What would you recommend dropping it to?

You could add uranium and market it as Beverly Beauty Soap :P (Just in case this went over anyone's head, Beverly is the name of a uranium mine in Australia)