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I'm making Coconut soap today...2 kinds actually.. One will have 85 % CO, 10%OO, 5%Castor... The other will have the same ingredients as above but I'm making salt soap and adding 50% my weight of oil with salt... QUESTION...How long should I wait do take the soap out of my bar mold. I don't want...

I made some oatmeal soap a couple of years ago that my wife really liked and can’t remember how much oatmeal I used. I remember grinding regular oat meal (not the instant stuff) up in my magic bullet and mixed it with my oils before adding my lye water. The oils were olive oil heavy, 70%...

I just watched a video on making Castile soap. The lady used a length of 3” PVC pipe which was lined with a material that she said she got at Costco. It came in a roll and was some type of plastic/vinyl material, not parchment or freezer paper. She slipped a piece of this into the PVC pipe...

I've been making soap for quite some time and have never used glitter on the tops of my bars. But I think I want to give it ago but I don't know if I need to purchase it from a soaping supply or stores like Michaels..I saw some at Michaels but some of that stuff scared me :-(...cuz I don't know...

These pink bars are actually Rebatched bars madefrom shreds that I mixed (stick blended) into hot oils of a soft oil CP recipe..let it cool down and then added my lye water, stick blended again to trace adding a little red coloring to give them a pink tint and some Plumeria FO… These are...

Nice white hard bars with fluffy tops I call Minnesota Snowdrift… These are nice pink bars with the fluffy tops I call Maui Sunset. Bordering on Castile, so there for the ladies…I used a neon pink coloring with Plumeria FO…. This little grouping of 3 soaps has pink bars, crimson colored...

Nice white hard bars with fluffy tops I callMinnesota Snowdrift… These are nice pink bars with the fluffy tops I callMaui Sunset. Bordering on Castile, so there for the ladies…I used a neon pinkcoloring with Plumeria FO…. This little grouping of 3 soaps has pink bars,crimson colored...

I have visited this subject quite a while ago but wouldlike to get an update from members with any new comments.. I have a lot of rebatch soap shreds and want to rebatchthem with a new batch of soap using the CP method. Has anyone had success doingthis? I have rebatched just plain soap shreds...

I haven’t made any soap for a few months and have noticed that my supply of rain water has diminished considerably. I still have some but it’s pretty old, over 10 months. I just wondered if I can use regular water or should I go buy some distilled water. Maybe I can run the rain water that I...

Anyone use Aloe Vera and goats milk in CP.. I have never used Aloe Vera juice in making soap but am about to make some Castile or what some call Bastile soap. I use mostly OO but through in a couple of other oils such as Castor and Cocoa Butter to stiffen it up a bit. I have read there are some...

I’m going to start early making soap for the holidays and have decided to put some labels on my bars for family and friends. I’ve used regular white print paper in the past but I don’t want to go that route again. Does anyone know how if there is a transparent film that can be used in my...

I have a lot of rebatch soap shreds and want to rebatch them with a new batch of soap either using the CP or HP method. Has anyone had success doing this? I have rebatched just plain soap shreds in the past with good success, however I have heard that by incorporating gelled or wet shreds into a...

I have done a lot of rebatching in the past and with a lot of success. I have read though that using powdered milk will make the rebatched soap more liquid and pourable in getting it in the mold. I have two methods of rebatching soap shreds; one is to mix my shreds with a new batch of oils...

I have rebatched shredded soap in the past mixing it with CP/HP equal parts, like a pound of shreds to a pound of new soap. The last time I did this was about 6 to 8 months ago and as I remember I added the shreds to my new oils and let this all heat up in a crock pot.. As it was heating and the...

I would like to make some citronella candles to put out on my porch so the mosquitoes don’t eat us alive in the evenings. I just need to know where I can purchase the oil and if plain paraffin canning wax can be used to make these candles. I’m a soaper on this forum and would like to try my...

Has anyone used fresh lemon or lime juice in his or her soaps? I do CP and I have a ton of fresh limes and lemons from my trees and thought about trying it but I don’t know how much to put in and whether I should discount the water with the amount of juice. Maybe the lye water would eliminate...

I have been using F.O.’s for all the fragrances in my soaping. I have never used EO’s cuz of the cost, at lease that’s how it shakes out when I compare one against the other. I know that EO’s would be a better more organic fragrance to use. My dilemma is, when using FO’s I have a problem...

Do any of you know if the Walmart shortening in the soap calc at http://www.soapcalc.net/calc/SoapCalcWP.asp is the all veg shortening or if its the one with beef tallow...They make both kinds. I've used the one with tallow and it makes nice soap but I would like to use the all vegy one but I'm...

Does it have that yellowish greenish tint to it that most of the OO's have? Jerry

I have a sampler pack of FO’s from Peak Candle supplies. I have used many of these satisfactorily. However, many of these have vanillin in them, which is a vanilla or related extract, which causes my soap to be off white. A letter to them informed me of the ones that contained vanilla or...