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Suppliers in BC Canwax is out of Ontario. I get my essential oils from there and some fragrance oils. I like there pictures. Silly I know. My favorite for oils that I can't get from the store is Voyageur. Cheers.

Hello from Canada :) Hi! I'm in BC. I currently get my supplies from Canwax.com , http://www.aquariusaroma-soap.com , or my favorite is http://www.voyageursoapandcandle.com . All have a very easy online website, good prices and reasonable shipping. Welcome to the addiction :)

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How to add lanolin to soap recipes? What the best way to use lanolin to soap and how much? Is it calculated with your oils or added as an additive after the cook? If it's added as an additive, then how much ppo? I have a little that I would like to add to my shaving soap recipe. I just...

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Soon. I wrestled it out of the mold last night. Of course I added to much liquid during the rebatch. Ugh. I'll poke it a little after work. ..

I think I just made my ugliest soap last night.... turmeric and sage.... what a sick color. It was a chocolate colored rebatch and I thought the dark color would hide it. I was wrong. I just thought the spices smelled earthy and would go with tea tree nicely. Now I have soap the color of a baby...

I thought that 60% looked pretty impressive on the stearic experiment video I saw on YouTube. But I thought it maybe too much in a recipe.

So how much stearic will it take to get to yogurt. I get to play with my recipes today if I can get to the bus depot fast enough after work. So excited.

Thank you for that link. That's exactly what I was wondering. (I love pictures.)

I'm definitely going to try the Stearic/Coconut recipe, since everyone has had great success with it. I was curious how a 52% Stearic / 48% Tallow would compare. Has anyone tried it? Or something close?

Awesome information :) I'm going to try the 3:1 tallow/coconut version. I was going to do a 50/50 version, but since it's your article guys preferred recipe... I think I will try it. I don't want to do too high of stearic until I get my KOH in. My current recipe is a combo of Avocado/Cocoa...

When you dream all night about experimenting different soap recipes and you have an epiphany. You wake up because you can't wait to try it for real...

Thank you all for your replies. I've found a bunch of posts that I have missed before. The research is endless and the possibilities are infinite. That's why this is my obsession I think. :-P My husband thinks I'm crazy. But this seems to be the place for me from reading the forums here.

I have spent days reading the forums and scouring the internet for what makes a great shaving soap. I have a pretty good idea, however, one question remains... can you make a decent shave soap that will have a foamy lather with NaOH instead of KOH? Or would the bar be too hard to be of use...