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HerbalEarthly I had my partner glue the "L" brackets in place with araldite glue. It works temporarily until I can afford a loaf cutter

Hi Herbal Earthling, I just brought a marble cheese slicer to cut my soap and it does work ok. Much faster than cutting every piece with a knife which is what I use to do. Your right, the loaf does more around on the marble. I had to put "L" shape brackets in two places to stop it moving and...

Hi all I'm making a cold process soap and I'm wanting to add some Australian White Clay to the mix but cant find any information on how much to add. Could someone please help with quantities/measurements. Truly thankful for any advice or help Cheers, Margo

We love this soap. ( my young son and I ), we laughed out loud. He plays this game and thought yr soap was great.

Wow I love yr soap it looks wonderful. Can i ask what oils you used? I would love to give it a go. I've never used dried herbs or flowers yet but would love to try.

Re: REO Thanks for the great links Hazel, I really enjoy reading them. I have a question now though. do you suggest using ROE in all yr soaps or only certain recipes. Usually my soap recipes are a mix of about 50/50 of hard oils and soft oils sometimes that varies but thats usually the...

I would love to use your wonderful natural colours but I'm afraid i live to far away. But its a great idea and good luck to you. BTW, I don't mind at all if your selling something, I thinks its great. There should be more of it. I kind of feel very preveledged when I get the opportunity to...

Thank you camillaHB for the tip. I read somewhere once that to get a good soap for piping you put in vegetable glycerine. Hav you ever heard that? Would you use that because vegetable glycerine adds bubbles to a soap. I'm not sure myself but i'm now going into the kitchen to make a small batch...

Thanks for the advice sudbubblez. I have never made a HP soap yet I tend to stick to CP and a bit of Melt n Pour. I'm going to make a small batch of CP now to top a beautiful block of soap I made the other day, but my next project might just have to be a whipped soap just for the fun of trying...

Thanks Genny for you help. I was wondering if you have any pictures of yr soap online. I would love to see some of your work. best wishes to you Margo

Thank you ladies for your replies. Its always exciting when I open up my computer and find someone out there in soap making land willing to help me thru the hurdles. I have tried these techniques you all talk about but for whatever reason the piping just didn't turn out. I think now the trick...

Hi everyone, could someone help me please. I would like to make some piping for the tops of my soaps but i'm not sure what i'm doing. I make cold process soap. I've watched videos on utube and I've been reading this forum but I'm still lost. I'm not sure whether i should whip the soap for...

Hi everyone, just a quick question, I've been offered Palm shortening at a really good price but not sure if I can soap with it. I think you can but would love some confirmation first before I buy it. Could someone let me know. Thank you Margo

Great advice, so it seems there really isn't a right or wrong way. I think I'll try adding it to my lye solution.

misleading article As a newbie to the art of soap making I find this very irritating. At the moment alot of what I do is experimental because I'm still feeling my way and so to read something like this can waste alot of my ingredience because i trust what the article is saying and know no...