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I found a new ingredient which I really want to try in a tattoo soap I am considering. The ingredient is "lavender butter" which is supposed to lightly scent the soap without the need for essential or fragrance oils. It is rather expensive ($1/oz) but I think it would be worth it. The site I...

Hi everyone. I love soapcalc's feature of giving the various values for each oil that could possibly be used for making soap. I wanted to be able to stop hunting around, scrolling up and down the list, to find one that was, say, low in INS values. So, I created a spreadsheet with the oils I can...

I used a blend of a floral, a melon and a wood to make a signature blend for my brand. I had 1 other success and 2 failures when using this or another similar blend. This time I made some changes to the recipe and the way I added the ingredients to try and make a successful batch and it seemed...

I purchased some natural colorants from Soap Making Resource to start testing out and they came in this week. My test with Paprika that I started weeks ago came out great, through infusion (lovely peach color) and direct addition (dark brick reddish brown) as a powdered colorant so I thought...

Hello everyone. I found this forum looking for information on Tussah silk in soaping. Since I am just beginning on this road myself, I thought it in my best interest to join a forum where I can pick the brains of a community of people when something I try goes wrong and my hard work, and...