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Welcome to the May 2024 SMF Soap Challenge: Hanger Swirls! This month’s challenge will involve one of the easiest ways to make pretty soap designs: the Hanger Swirl! This can be very specific design, like a butterfly swirl, Ione swirl, bouquet swirl – or, just put some colored batter in the...

The Entry Thread for the Feb 2024 SMF Challenge is now open! 🤩 Please post entries only; any comments should be posted over on the Challenge Thread. Your entry photo should be the first item in your Entry thread post, and must show the top face (not the typical cut side face) of least one...

Hi everyone, I've often purchased my EOs from Camden Grey in the past. For the first time, I'm having some trouble and wondering if anyone else is experiencing problems. On Nov 25, 2023, I placed an order; all items were shown as in stock. On Dec 5, they reached out to me to say: Thanks for...

Welcome to the February 2024 SMF Soap Challenge: Latte Art (aka Pretty Soap Tops)! Pssst! Here’s a secret: a few easy techniques make it possible to create very pretty soaps, even for those us who aren’t “artistic” (such as your artistically-challenged challenge hostess!). This month’s...

The Entry Thread is officially open. Can't wait to see what y'all have created! 🤩

August 2023 SMF Challenge: Shapes! Welcome to the August 2023 SMF Challenge, where this month’s theme is…. SHAPES! If you've always wanted to be shapely, this one's for you. ;)😁 🤭 Seriously, this will be much easier than "getting in shape." You will simply make a cold-processed or...

I finally melted down some candles that were supposed to be navy (but were bright blue), with some other candles that were supposed to be white (but were light yellow). My old InstantPot worked perfectly for melting everything together. I did have to be super careful about decanting from the big...

This is the entry thread for the June 2023 SMF Challenge: Layers! This thread is for challenge posts only. Any and all comments should be posted to the general challenge thread. Your photo for the voting survey should be at the top of your entry post. This photo must show the full face of least...

Welcome to the June 2023 SMF Soap Challenge: Layers! This month’s challenge is to make a layered soap. With a minimum of two layers and two colors (one of which can be your uncolored base), you can make as many layers and use as many colors as you’d like! Your layers may be straight, pointy...

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With all the discussions about Cricut machines, I thought it would be great to have a dedicated thread to show off our projects, discuss ideas, and share tips. I hope to upload some pics here later today or tomorrow, but meanwhile, show us your Cricut creations! If you are using a similar...

I meant to post this sooner. Their sale is up to 20% off using discount code FEB20. They don't say when the sale ends, but I'm guessing on Feb 28 at the latest.

Rather than continuing to hijack ALL the other threads 😂 here is a new thread about making foaming emulsified sugar scrubs out of soap shreds. As I posted elsewhere, I had a lot of fun making sugar scrubs from a large tub of jelly soap base that had been hanging around since the grandkids...

Big Lots often has THE lowest price on CO, plus they have 20% off everything right now for anyone signed up to receive their email alerts. CO isn’t in stock in my area (which is fine, I have plenty) but I see that other areas have it for pick-up, not necessarily for shipping. Some area stores...

Has anyone gone through, or heard feedback about, the cosmetic formulating course offered through Chemist's Corner? At $547 USD, it's a lot less expensive than the Formula Botanica course, which is $802 USD at the current exchange rate. I don't recall ever hearing or reading about the CC...

This was requested by a friend a couple of weeks ago, and I finally made it today. Based on the research and recommendations made here on SMF, I used 10% pine tar with a combo of tallow and palm increase hardness, plus some PKO, castor, and sorbitol to increase lather. 2% SF and 40% lye...

My prayers go out to all of our SMF friends in Canada who were impacted by the storm. Being geographically challenged, I'd love to hear from those of you who are there, that you are safe and sound. 💜

I just signed up for my first craft fairs this fall, and I am comparing liability insurance policies as that is required for all craft fair vendors. Here is what I learned: Hiscox no longer covers soapmaking; their chat agent said that any soapmakers who believe they are still covered by Hiscox...