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I got asked to make a big batch of castile soap. Unscented and uncoloured (technically I'm using clay) for my mother's book club. Wouldn't it figure I would knock over my crock pot full of simmering lye/ oil. Now I'm out about 100oz of oliver oil and so am completely out of my brand new bottle...

I just made my first batch after my lye burn (hand still looks gross and it's going to have craters but no nerve damage was done so I'm good) and I mixed yellow and blue liquid concentrate since I've gotten a beautiful deep green doing this before. Wouldn't you know this time it is a LIGHT grey...

Turns out I did not seal my lye container properly after I last used it. Since I was putting it away in a moving box I didn't wear my gloves. Horrible mistake! The container spilled, on me, my hand while I caught it. Lye got on to a couple of fresh nicks on my hand and after vinegar and lots of...

Roomie and I gave our notice for the 1st of April. Considering there are rats, and neighbours from hell, this one inevitable. But the dang landlord wants to have been coming into the suite when we aren't here, or at least that is his theory. The thing is, we will be here. We work graveyards so...

I've finished fiddling with my bubble bar (or bubble bomb) recipe after much experimentation and now I find myself with oh, maybe 30 or so bars from my different, and I now have no idea how to store them to protect them until I can use them up for fork them off on others. Any suggestions? I...

I need to give myself a treat. Feeling pretty frustrated right now. And I'm thinking about what oils butters and other additives might also be useable in lotion or whatever. Anyone have suggestions on some extra special additives I could give myself?

I discovered the culprit of numerous thefts throughout my house (and items placed in shoes) Folly, my polydactyl cat was caught red mouthed as he ran off with the lid to my soap dye. Unfortunately, I couldn't find the dang thing after he ran off. Next thing I know, he's gone off with the lid to...

I haven't posted any pictures in a while, mostly for lack of a servicable camera. So I borrowed my parents' camera and backyard and have been working on cleared soap pictures. Sprice Route Puck's Garden Pacifica (salt bar) Sea to Sky (also called the I forgot the...

Can anyone here tell me if hemp oil smells like hemp? I have a request to make some soap with it but I have an allergy to hemp (yes including the fabric) and scent sensitivity to marijuana and hemp incense. I don't want my house smelling off anything that is going to have me in a migraine for...

Todays screw up has ultimately proven to me that the use of either sodium lactate or sugar is essential in the handling and colouring and cutting and the end look of my soap. The batch of hot press I made yesterday with sugar, and the batch I made today where I forgot the sugar look distinctly...

I work for a souless telecommunications company. For the last month few months I have been having some awful issues with my schedule (they laid off 100 people in other provinces) so we were thinly staffed, we had to work triple the hours pretty much and the hours we were getting were completely...

I'm not sure what I did but my current hp batch cooked in about 10 minutes, at most 15. I used the same settings I always have. The only thing I did differently was add the the FOs at the beginning since their flash points were all so high. Cooked the FOs be responsible or could my...

While I wait for my Peak FOs to cross the border I've been playing with my current FOs trying to come up with interesting but not noxious combos. I'm soaping Neroli, Cinnamon and Lotus right now. It's surprising nice. We'll see how it soaps. What are your favorite odd couples?

So I've been a busy beaver this week and thought I'd share a summary of my spoils. I made this soap thinking of my father. He isn't human until he's had two LARGE cups of coffee. I made it with Tim Horton's coffee (if you are from the US or Canada, you'll understand why this matters)...

I am more than a little ecstatic to report that my first attempt at bath bombs, followed shortly by a 2nd, 3rd, and 4th attempt, was a success, as were the next. I was really worried if I would have any success since I live in a rain forest but humidity or no, the bath bombs are hard and...

My roommate was gifted a bunch of supplies to make silicone molds and she wants to make some molds for me. Anyone have any suggestions with a design or pattern that might make for a fun soap? She can pretty much do anything, it's just a matter of what would be functional for a soap mold...

There is a Dove commercial airing on pretty much every channel I have watched today that is trying to slam soap. Apparently, soap leaves an evil soap scum film on your skin and the detergents in Dove do not. Funny, soap is kinder to my skin than Dove. Especially home made soap, naturally.

It would appear that I fail with a potato peeler. No, no, I didn't over trim or make a really wonky shape or anything. I just managed to ah, peel off half of one of my nails. I can't imagine there is a safer or safe method of trimming soap but anyone have any suggestions of a non peeler...

I'm a little pissed off. Just making a Castile batch of soap for my mother. She wants to give it to her book club for Valentines. The moral of the story is the lovely silicone baking pan is a piece of crap that not only warped the second the soap batter went in but it spilled my poor soap all...

Merry Christmas from BC. I hope no one else worked!