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My buttermilk honey oat soap recipe that I'm tinkering with uses honey at a whopping 5% total oil weight. I can't remember where I initially got that figure but I like the colour and faint smell it adds to the finished soap so I've been sticking with it. Aaaaanyway I recalled seeing a thread on...

I'm sorry, I don't know how to better describe the fragrance. I was cleaning out my old shower gels and stuff the other day and came across a bottle of Palmolive Naturals Shower Milk in Milk and Olive (a discontinued product but I was able to find an old listing here) and I'd love to try the...

Does anyone have a hard-and-fast rule for adding food type additives to soaps? I'm interested in doing an aloe vera and cucumber soap. My theory was that I could replace half of the water amount with a blend of aloe vera gel and cucumber puree (with a little extra water to make it fluid enough)...

Hi everyone, I'm from South Australia and I got into soap making back in April. Initially it was an experiment - I'd found a soap I liked that cost $7 per bar, and I wanted to see if I could reproduce it. I definitely jumped straight in the deep end - my first batch of soap was a 2 kg batch of...