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    Anyone ever make liquid soap with pine tar?

    Just been wondering if its possable to make a liquid pine tar soap. So figured I'd ask if anyone else may have ever tried this. Maybe even a cream soap with pine tar. ????
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    Crisco to Dish soap experiment

    Here I go with another crazy idea.. Prices are going up on everything these days, including dish soap. If you buy the cheap stuff at a dollar store...well you get what you pay for. So, can I make inexpensive dish soap from say Crisco? Remembering how much liquid soap I made before from 32ozs...
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    Selling soap to help feed the hungry

    The people running our local food pantry needed a place to store there turkeys so we let them use our deep freezer. When they came to pick them up I was in middle of making soap. Once they loaded up one of the guys wanted to see what I was talking about, so I showed him my soap stock pile and...
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    Golden Blonde (couple of pictures)

    So far all I can think of to call this one is Golden Blonde. So, I decided I wanted to try doing Chamamile like I did the coffee. Ground up a bunch and set it to slow brew for a super potent stew. For the lye sollution and additive at trace. Went with a simple oil recipe palm, olive...
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    Coffee Extreme, photos

    Well this is the end result of the lye in hot coffee explosion (never do that again). Looks, smells and kinda even taste like those little round coffee candies, well taste for only like 5 secounds. The top came out nicer than I expected, nice dark cake type look (from the powder fine ground...
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    never never never..

    Never add lye to hot coffee :shock: The resulting valcanic eruption just isn't cool. Fortunately for me in that brief moment of hearing this unusal loud sizziling sound and thinking "what the hey?" god granted me the wisdom to scream and run away. lol Good thing I always use a big sink of...
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    whipped soap question

    been reading up on this whipped soap some. one thing I am kind of confused about, well actualy 2. steric acid. looked that up and its basicaly the same thing thats in palm oil ect. so wondering do I realy need it or can it be superfated in? say like keeping a 5-6%sf ? can steric be omited...
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    Chocolate swirl pumpkin cphp

    Sometimes I suprise myself made with real frresh pumpkin recipe called for 34 ozs liquid 24 ozs of liquid was pumpkin came out so nice just had to share cphp
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    A Castle type liquid soap experiment (lot of pix)

    well a few weeks ago I was asked to creat an all natural tooth paste. after much research and studying came up with plan of action. first however I would need to creat a neutral tasting liquid soap, for the soap base in the paste. seemed everyone here agreed that OO and Cocoabutter make a...
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    pine tar

    ok im sure its been asked, but anywho.... when should it be added? CPHP at gel state? like an additive? should the water be discount for its weight? if you do im not sure why but need to know. was going to make a regular soap batch and just add a 20% chunk o tar after the cook off and its...
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    German Chocolate

    Hard to resist the temptation to take a bite of this one. smells soooooo good and makes the skin feel like silk.
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    naturallynakedsoaps.com

    our site is up and running hopefuly it all works http://www.naturallynakedsoaps.com/
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    blue berries

    want to do a blue berry soap while thinking of this was asked: will it stain the skin once in soap? I am sure this has been asked before the blue berry is well known to stain however the benefits of blue berries are great
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    joint effort website

    a couple of friends and I have been working on trying to start up a small hobbie business of soaping. licensed, incorperated, did name search, fictitious named, registered domain name, got web hosting for $1.00 a month. everything went fine so far. no idea how to do website though. one of my...
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    CPHP salted goats milk

    well, i've seen salted soaps, i've seen goats milk soaps. so i thought why not both with: soy, palm, olive, coconut, castor and shea oils plus: coco, shea and mango butters
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    brown sugar and maple syrup ??

    i was thinking if sugar and honey works, why not brown sugar and maple syrup. anyone ever try these? and whould they give the soap there scent and color? the more i think about this, the more i want to try it.
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    shower puffs

    does any one make there own shower puffs? just ordered a roll of the material still need to find a good outlet for the cord to tie'em with
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    fresh mango/cantalope and cream delight

    started off with CPHP crisco at 24oz castor at 16oz coconut at 10oz olive at 10 oz palm at 13 at trace added mango butter 2oz shea butter 2oz liquified fresh mango 8oz, cantalope 2oz used 13 oz water 5oz half and half cream 10oz lye at gel state i split batch, used just a...
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    interesting results from test recipe

    been wanting to try a batch with crisco in it, so i decide to make a batch today crockpot HP crisco 48 0z castor 8 oz olive 8oz palm 8oz coconut 8oz water 28oz gm 2oz lye 10oz at trace 1 tsp ppo shea oil, 1tsp ppo glycern, 1grm shea butter ppo started up double boiler, tossed in 1 tsp...
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    the book

    finaly got my own copy of soap naturally saturday afternoon. already half way through, awsome info have not done this much power reading in ages. lol my poor eyes aren't used to it but i am glad and veary happy i got it
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