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hey I have like 8 batches of soap under my belt but i am still a little confused about the temperature of the oils and lye when you mix them. i am impatient and dont like to wait till the oils cool down and heating them up to melt the solids. i mix the oils when they are hot (140 degrees...

hey guys, i said i would post pics so here they are, my chamomile and linden leave herb soap with holly berry cybillia fragrance from Brambleberry. i love holly berry's earthy herbal fragrance, it goes really well with the herbs. Also a picture of me in the snowstorm (on the right) And my...

i use a 5 dollar miter box from the hardware store. it works decently for making straight uniform cuts

so i went along with it anyway, ill post the results in a couple of days :)

if you made the soap only yesterday is it possible that the bottom layer hasnt had time to fully cool/set? being that it is on the bottom and more insulated , just a thought

Do any of you have experience putting crushed or blended herbs in your soap? My grandmother collects chamomile and linden tree leaves for tea and I cant help but think about how good they smell and how nice they might be in soap. Is there usually discoloration and spoilage when you put...

yup, good idea

looks great! I recommend that you might use photoshop to make the colors a little more vibrant but otherwise your soap looks great and I really like how they are stacked

chemists exclusively use glassware for their reactions and they get extremely high temperature for prolonged periods of time. they also use chemicals like NaOH all the time. Perhaps chemistry grade glassware would be ideal for mixing lye?

my CP soaps look semi-translucent. how do you go about achieving a creamy opaqueness? would using milk instead of water make it look richer?

i made my own wooden molds and i dont even need tape. first off its exactly 13 inches wide (a 4lb mold) which the exact size of the width of the parchment paper which makes it super convienent. secondly, the sides screw on and off with wingnuts so you can just stick a piece of small paper on...

white as snow you say? thats quite interesting

^ cool, thanks for the info

hey, possible stupid question, how much of Peak Fragrances are required per LB of CP soap?

is it still going on? says 20$ for me on the site

yup it was super fated about 7percent. My scale only measures to the .1 ounce so it is not that accurate. i used 35 percent water per weight oil. i will take a larger lye discount in the future one possible problem is that i used saponifcation values found on soap calculator and maybe...

so i made my first soap. it was a 1/2 lb experiment batch just to see the process i used the formula 30 pct pomace o.o 30 pct palm oil 30 pct coconut oi 92 degree mp 5 pct castor oil 5 pct shea butter took 7 pct lye discount and rounded down when weighing. made the soap, mixed...

ugh over 10 dollars to ship 10 oz of fragrance? thats small enough to ship first class usps should be ~3 dollars

yea after exhaustive searching i believe columbus foods is the cheapest, even with cost of shipping to NY

Interestingly enough shipping from Ohio to New York is cheaper than shipping for Massachusetts.