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Thank you! I come from a metric background so always use grams for whatever I do, so I'm pretty glad it's the best way to do measurements for soaping, since it comes so naturally to me :)

Fortunately, I never got as far as mixing my lye waters, so I'm fine there! *whew* I will thoroughly sniff the oils and see if I lucked out or not. I also have my recipes printed out and know exactly what is in each of the blends, I feel like I spend more time writing stuff down and...

Hi everybody! I've missed the soaping world! I've had the forum tab open in my browser for months but haven't been reading anything or soaping at all :( Quite a few months back I had every intention of making 2 or 3 small test batches, so I measured, mixed up all my oils, covered and labeled the...

I had never heard of these before, I feel silly! There's a co-op store that's kind of a mini whole foods by where I work that has a bulk aisle, next time I'm there I will check for them, out of curiosity...

It looks great! The serial exfoliator in me just did a backflip! May I ask how much coffee grounds you used? The soap to exfoliant ratio looks pretty much like what I have been picturing for mine!

Wouldn't that be the best, most descriptive way for soapmakers to grind coffee at the store? Of course the armpits category would raise a lot of eyebrows haha :razz:

Thanks, Seawolfe! I'm one of those people who can't stand lavender scented products, but my grandmother is absolutely obsessed with it, so if I ever make her some soap, this is such a great idea :D

I did not know this about oatmeal! I've never used it in soap and actually I don't even like to eat it (shocking, I know). I will have to search for some pictures of oatmeal soap that contains a coarser grind, I would like to see what it looks like, especially in lighter vs. darker soaps.

I thought about poppy seeds, since they're so readily available and look so good in soap, imo, but I'm just not feeling them for this specific project... I will definitely use them soon for a soap for my husband, though, so that's something to look forward to! :)

I really got spoiled using a Keurig, it's like I have nothing to do with actual coffee, I just pop the k-cups in and then throw them out. Maybe I can try to do some research to find out the differences in coarseness, although that seems to be awfully specific lol I searched the forum for K-cup...

Hi everybody! I have a half and half bar in the works (half regular, half scrubbie, that is) and I've been reading a lot in the forum about exfoliants and what everybody uses... Personally I'm an exfoliation freak, especially when it comes to my body (I use much gentler scrubbies on my face...

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You know as I posted this question I thought about the possibility that the shower gel smells nothing like the real deal haha and that the FO's out there are probably an attempted dupe of the beverage, not the product! DUH I'm not very familiar with Crafter's Choice, but if they have the other...

Hi everyone! For the past year or so I've been extremely obsessed with this shower gel/shampoo by philosophy called hot buttered rum, it smells soooooo good! It's been discontinued and I don't have very much left so I had the brilliant idea of making a hot buttered rum soap! I'm pretty sure it's...

I figured it was overkill, but I'm extremely new to this so I want my measuring to be as accurate as possible. Also because I'm a newbie, I'm making very small 1 lb batches to test out formulas on my skin. And my last batch was even smaller because I came up with a last minute tweak on an...

I've been thinking about this a lot lately, mainly because during my "brain downtime" I very often picture soap/soap designs I would love to try. For me, my inspiration always comes as a visual idea first. Like, for example, I saw the prettiest mangoes at the store the other day so I was trying...