Recent content by Marieke

Looks great, I love the color.

I'd only make yoghurt-rosemary soap, coconut milk soap with EO lemongrass and juniper and a green clay soap with EO's fir tree/juniper/anise.

I don't have a sensitive skin and use soap with 20-30 for cleansing without any problems. If your sister has oily skin like me you might want a higher number in cleansing.

Wouldn't TD be difficult to wash off? I'd use white clay powder I think.

Exactely the same things happened to me too when I made a honey soap. I don't know what the liquid was that came out but it was still good soap.

I appreciate the skill that comes with making "soap in the shape of ..." but I prefer my soaps to look like soap. I don't even do a lot of swirls. I love the usefullness of soap and want people to use them, not look at them.

I did the same thing yesterday. I made goatmilk soap and put it outside after pouring. Twelve hours later I put the mold in the fridge and took it out 4 hours later. On room temperature it became quite soft so I put it in the oven at 70 degrees C for 3 hours. It turned soft but I knew that would...

I use it in almost all my soaps at 5%.

It happened to me too a couple of times. I barely insulated the silicone mold and my soap also was cheesecake-like after 2-3 days. I use my silicone mold only for left over soap. The very same batches gave no problems at all in my wooden and pvc molds.

Rhubarb root infused in oil makes a lovely pink color. Maybe if you'd combine it with some alkanet infused oil, it would be more purple? Not sure though, I think I'll give it a try myself.

I've used it several times and love it.

I cure my soaps in the kitchen pantry where it's cool, dark and dry. But I thought putting the soap in a box with one of these would made more sense because otherwise it would absorb the moist from the entire pantry...

Did anyone ever try getting a harder bar (less moist) with a moisture absorber? Not sure if that's the right translation, what I mean are those white pallets that atract moist. I wondered what would happen if I put one in a box with my curing soaps.

I only made single oil coconut bars and olive bars but I prefer a mixture of oils. I usually combine olive, coconut, sesame, sunflower, castor and wheat germ.

I use a Dutch "kaasschaaf": http://nl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kaasschaaf. Works fine for me but I'm not sure you can buy them anywhere else than in the Netherlands and Scandinavia.