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At outdoor parties, I have heard women discuss how they love how men smeil after barbecuing. I purchased a smoke oil hoping to attract females into buying my soaps for their men. Unfortunately, I dropped the ball and never got around to making the soap. It's on my to do list.

If you plan on moving and need to cover up the holes in your apt, soap scraps always come in handy. It will save you not having to use toothpaste, as it is much harder.

I think this all had to do with people not really using soap to bath, but as decorative pieces. There is also the Geek factor that many people are not aware of. People in their twenties enjoy their gadgets and take great pleasure in having soaps that resemble things like remote controls and...

You can also use them to make laundry soap, that is if you don't want to make soap balls.

You may have added too much water. Let it cure until it turns hard.

Very nice looking soap. I have found that females like the smell of guys when they barbecue. I bought a fragrance that smells like firewood smoke from saveonscents.com You might want to check them out.

Should be the same regardless of what method you use. But, CP will produce a better looking soap in general if you're using a log mold.

Have you tested the finished product yet? I would think it still has quite a bit of zap to it.

I screwed up the other day. I was making a batch with three different oils. 12 hours later could not figure out why my soap had a high PH, or why my mold was 1/3 too low. I then cut into it and found the center still wet. it was an hour later that I noticed that I forgot to add one of my three...

Canada and European countries usually recommend a 3% EO conc. Personally, I don't trust government guidelines and always suspect there is more to their criteria that involves other issues not related to the subject at hand.

AnitaB I am new to perfuming, but in perfumes you must include high notes, middle notes and base notes. Google perfumes and it will explain things further. There are charts that will explain what group a particular EO falls under. Some will fall into one or more groups.

I have an idea for your cheese soap. You can cut little holes into individual slices and make them totally look like Swiss cheese.

Don't expect your addiction to be confined to soap. You will soon be making all kinds of body products and may even branch out to making your own perfumes/colognes/ deodorants/ tooth paste, etc. You just tapped into an alternate universe. P.S. I like the cheese look.

LOL, we all fell for a necropost revival.

this is from the website that Pamielynn provided, lotioncrafter.com Rosemary Oleoresin, also known as Rosemary Oil Extract or ROE is an oil soluble, natural extract used to retard rancidity in natural oils. Its potent antioxidant properties are attributed in large part to carnosic acid...