Recent content by petrolejka

I fixed the picture thing, weird they wouldn't show up anymore. Thanks everyone, I am having a blast. Made another batch on Sunday. Plan on making few more next weekend and the next ... until I run out of money lol

I haven't made soap in about a year or so and didn't really miss it. But then few days ago I got the automated email from here if I am still making soap. I logged on, started to read all the posts and now I miss it very badly. I feel slightly obsessed :mrgreen: So yesterday, I made a batch of...

yeah I am not sure why the color has a red tint to it. I am thinking I burned the guinness a bit though as I didnt freeze it, just used it from fridge and pretty much just dumped the lye in it because I was tired and lazy. And it did "boil" a bit? ANyway the lye solution was kinda reddish too...

I made the first test batch and everything went well, I tried a little piece and it lathers really well already. I did gel it and just cut it tonight and it's still really soft in the middle. I also tried to make my own stamp but I dont think I made it deep enough so it doesn't show much. I will...

thank you so much for the feedback. I am going to try both versions and see if the palm oil makes any difference :) The wedding is October 5th so I have about 3 months to get it all done. I will definitely post pictures after I make them. I am really excited. I also plan on making a stamp...

My avatar is me as a child. I love the picture because my mom took it and my hair used to be a beautiful shade of red -now it's just blah light brownish. My username is what my nickname used to be as a child ( yup I miss being a kid lol ). It means petroleum lamp but could also mean "a girl...

Hi everyone, I am getting ready to do my pumpkin soaps for my wedding favors and came up with these two recipes, they differ very slightly and the numbers look ok to me but I really don't know what kind of bar it will make. The oils listed are the oils I have at home. I am really nervous...

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thank you everyone for encouragement and all the ideas/advice. I am going to try a 1lb batch with beer first, I am actually excited about giving that a try. For mold I am going to use 2inch pipe - my fiance is a plumber so he has a truck full of all kinds of pipes. Plus I find the round soaps...

are you sure 4 oz is enough for 10lbs? I thought it was like 0.6-0.8oz per lb. When I looked at all the soaping websites I know of I'd be hit with 12-15$ shipping charge for 8oz of fragrance which I thought was ridiculous. Ha, I didnt even think of making it in small batches. Thanks for the...

I am going to make 50-60 soaps, I was thinking 2oz each. Our wedding is fall/thanksgiving themed and pumpkins are going to be our main decoration, thats why I wanted to do the pumpkin soap. That is a great idea to make a small batch of unscented pumpkin soap to see how I like it. I have exactly...

Hi everyone, I am getting married in October and I wanted to make pumpkin soap as wedding favors. It all seemed so easy in my head but now that I am looking into it I am actually not so sure I want to go through with it. I've made few batches of soap before, all except one turned out good and...

Hi, I just made soap with this fragrance and goats milk few weeks ago and the fragrance is great :) I was a bit bummed about how dark the soap turned, but other than that it's great. I did not used coffee for part of my liquid, just used distilled water + goat milk Do you have any pictures?

Thank you everyone! He is still doing well, although he keeps touching the lenses so I have to clean them every 10 minutes or so which is a little bit annoying. But I aam hoping that will get better with time :)

Hi everyone! My son(2) had a surgery 2 weeks ago, nothing major - he had stents put in his tear ducts, tubes put in his ears and adenoids taken out. While in surgery the eye doctor checked his eyes and found out he has astigmatism, pretty bad for his age. So she prescribed glasses(+3;+2.5) We...