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DISCLAIMER: SMF is not responsible for any sale, trade, co-op, pre-buy, fast buy, garage sale, ad or other transactions between members. All parties enter into transactions at their own will/risk. !!!!! Sorry this is taking time, I had a sale in my shop to clear my inventory, and I am...

First off on saturday I attempted my 1st batch of oven hot processed soap. Well let me just say that though my pan was 3X (instead of 2X) the size of the batch, and it had only been in the oven 5 min I had a huge mess. I places it in theoven, went to measure my scent and heard a plop plp plop...

It took a while, and I am already planing version 2.0 but here it is. http://www.greenman-apothecary.com/index.html http://www.facebook.com/pages/edit/?id=327059799653# Happy to have that done. ~Roy

It has been a very busy year. Between dealing with a severely depressed father who has an inoperable hernia, which means he can do nothing. My very good friend who was told he might not be around past July (luckily he is still with us). Arranging to move. Getting engaged. And a lot of other...

I finally got to make soap again… Here are the results of my work last weekend 1st OMG this smells sooo Good it is Chocolate/rose with a wood blend added By dembarie, shot with SPH-M540 at 2009-04-01 By dembarie, shot with SPH-M540 at 2009-04-01 2nd this is Blueberry/Mango...

A couple weeks ago there was a local fund raiser/auction I thought I would be nice and supply some items for the auction. I made 2 home Spa baskets; here are photos of the baskets and items in the basket…. The baskets By dembarie, shot with SPH-M540 at 2009-03-26 By dembarie, shot...

I know I know it’s Thursday But here is what I did last weekend…. I know it is not soap, however it will make my soap making much better. By dembarie, shot with SPH-M540 at 2009-03-26 By dembarie, shot with SPH-M540 at 2009-03-26 I Made 4 New 25 bar Molds 2 New 20 Bar...

Hey there everyone I am back, sorry I have been away. My desktop computer decided that it liked the life of a paperweight better than that of a computer, so I lost access from home. I did access on occasion from work, but we are installing a new software system here and there has been a ton of...

Ok people I was wondering if you have any thoughts. I just bought 50Lbs of Palm oil and it is seperated and I know it needs to be melted and mixed before use. thouble is that it is in a large plastic bucket. Thoughts on how to melt all this oil? Any input would be very very welcome. Roy

I did not get everything done I wanted to, but that’s because when I started work I kept realizing I was out of stuff so I had to do a supply run. I also slept in on Sunday (My soap making day) so I lost out on work time but I did catch up on sleep. So I only did one soap this weekend, I...

First off sorry I have not been around as much, I do not have Internet on the weekends, I stay with my GF and she does not have net access, and during the week work is crazy, I work for a law school and this is the busy season for getting apps. Well this weekend was fun, and I got a bit...

Ok so this weekend I had great success with a swirl - Here it is in the mold By dembarie, shot with SPH-M540 at 2009-01-26 This is a Castile Soap - It is Chocolate, Honeysuckle, Blackpepper, Cedarwood, and Smoke The second - well lets just say the Pomegranete Juice I used turned an...

Ok I have been meaning to post this for a while. I am a major soap nerd (GF joke), this is said as I had a wonderful X-mass. From My GF I received a Shrinkwrap system, Palm oil, Jojoba oil, Lye, Sweet almond oil, and a number of soaps from Etsy. The real kicker is the photo below...

Here are photos from a few weeks ago - I know I know I am slacking on getting things posted. This is a pure castile (100% olive) scented with cedarwood/lemongrass I can not wait for it to be hard enough to use. By dembarie, shot with SPH-M540 at 2009-01-19 This one is a test it is a...

More fun - For X-mas I made a number (9) different loose black/herbal/fruit tea blends for my GF. We have tried a number of there already and they are wonderful. I had also made a large batch for my sisterin law and she loved it and it is already gone. I was thinking of actually making a...

Here are the most recent samples that I hav given out to my testers . . . The color was not rigth on this one (silly me grabbed the wrong color) but here is the Eucalyptus Pepermint Soap By dembarie, shot with SPH-M540 at 2008-12-17 This I call my butter bar (it uses...

Here are pictures of my X-mas soaps . . . By dembarie, shot with SPH-M540 at 2008-12-17 By dembarie, shot with SPH-M540 at 2008-12-17 By dembarie, shot with SPH-M540 at 2008-12-17 By dembarie, shot with SPH-M540 at 2008-12-17 By dembarie, shot with SPH-M540 at...

Is there any trouble with using to much Titanium Dioxide? I was making some whipped RTCP this weekend, and when I went to add the Titanium I being the klutz that I am dropped the container into the mixer, luckily it was off at the time, and only about ½ the container went in. So in total I...

OK here they are they soaps I did over the long weekend, I got 4 Large (6 Pound) batches in over the weekend, while Having 2 Birthday parties, Cooking Thanksgiving Diner, going to a friends for another diner, and getting up at 4:00 am to shop on friday =D OK Here is tghe 1st Soap it is called...

Here are a couple of the Cakes I have done, The guitar is older and was for a friend, the Other is the chocolate Cheesecake I make for my GF, I put the white chocolate into the ganashe a little to early and it mwlted a little but still looked ok and the taste is wonderful. By dembarie, shot...