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Hi gang! Haven't posted in forever, only recently started soapmaking again after the big move to Colorado, taking a job with our local Hospice, and generally trying to create normal. Sooo very wonderful to be back home in the mountains. And making soap!

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ftc-cracks-down-on-products-that-claim-to-be-natural-2016-04-12 I hope this spreads far and wide!!!!!

Making lard soap today with leaf lard, grass-fed pigs, certified organic from Fannie and Flo on Etsy. Have some of their tallow too. What do y'all US soapers use? The really good stuff like theirs, or cheap brands like Armour (lard and hydrogenated lard)? I don't mind paying for the good...

Haven't made bath salts in a year, but until then sold a lot of gift packages including a generous amount of bath salts containing EOs. Because the plastic salt containers I used deformed pretty quickly from the EOs I switched to mason jars. Ready to get back into making my spa kits, but will...

OK gang, Ms. Cranky rearing her ornery head again. Acyrologia, what's that? Gotta be some new sabaconifrying term. My clientele is mostly vegan, uppityscale, larding it over the rest of us. I swear I'm beginning to get an inferiority complexion with all the praises of lard, tallowed be thy...

I don't remember the last time I used my stick blender. Instead I use a really good whisk with at least 24 blades (sorry, trying to count made me dizzy). I use a lot of additives in my liquid (milk, salt, sugar, clay, silk) and getting to trace doesn't take much time even without any...

Just reading yesterday's email and like it. New: 1. No more packaging peanuts, being replaced by air pillows made from recycled, biodegradable material. Yay!!!!! 2. 30 percent off FO sale Sunday and Monday. 3. $5 handling fee per order (last straw was recent UPS increase of 4.9...

First off, Happy New Year all! So I've been soaping with colorants from several different mica suppliers. I'm accustomed to using about half a teaspoon for a batch with 40 oz. oils to get the muted but very colorful shades I like. Have noticed with the last several batches using Nurture...

So at the suggestion of several here, I ordered some deer tallow soap from Etsy. Now I see why y'all sing the praises of tallow soap. Incredibly creamy lather, my skin feels great, I'm a new fan. Friends have promised me the fatty parts from their young son's first deer, can't wait to try my...

Wow, so I had about 2 oz stashed away for a couple years remembering I love it but having had comments about it being overpowering. Made a red Hawaiian Alaea salt soap with it tonight, 3 parts sweet orange 10x to 1 part white thyme. Set up on me immediately. Tried to beat it into submission but...

So granted it's young soap, only five weeks old, but noticeable differences from my salt bars using shea butter. Lather is nice but no more so than my shea butter version. But I find it gritty, thin feeling and not so emollient as my shea bars at the same age. 75 percent coconut oil 15 percent...

Thinking not to add as much salt as I would for soleseife, but enough to make them much harder than my previous hair bars. Would use extra-fine pink Himalayan salt. OO, avocado, babassu, argan, brocolli seed oils, panthenol, silk amino acids, honeyquat, citric acid, silk, sugar - not in order...

Hi All! Glad to be back after many months out of touch and as many months not soaping. Have missed the forum and y'allses! And now it's time to get the hands oily again :) So sorry to return on a sorta complain-ey note, but this has been bugging me for a long time. I have a 50-pound pail of...

So David Fischer had posted this, and of course I had to try it. http://candleandsoap.about.com/od/SpecialtySoapRecipes/fl/Soleseife-or-BrineSalt-Water-Soap-Recipe.htm?nl=1 Of course I tried it at the most inopportune time, with a big order of wedding favors soaps to get out, mini hearts for...

So I'm playing with SFIC base and embeds. I need FOs and EOs that don't turn the soap cloudy but leave it clear so the embeds can show nicely. So far it's been a lot of experimenting with the scents I have on hand, making half a bar and observing the results. A lot of failures I've cut up to use...

So I had the absolute work week from hades and was feeling totally despondent last night, and with a batch of lye and oils that I knew I had screwed up to boot. I figured I had nothing to lose, and with some math backtracking managed to fix the quantities. My first two tiger swirl attempts were...

Anyone else have this problem? I can't trust it at all to keep my saved recipes, they just vanish. On a Windows machine running Windows 7, and Chrome. I just don't get it. Luckily I've saved most of them in Word files, but I'm getting really, really distrustful. Of course, the one I needed to...

Hey y'all, I've been noticing from photos that many otherwise really beautiful soaps are suffering from the Dreaded Drag Marks you'll get if you cut your loaves too soon. I never, ever, ever cut mine before they've set up for a full 12 hours. Longer is preferable, 24 hours is ideal, at least...

So I found a few threads on chlorella as a colorant, but am still curious. I can't get a really nice natural green I like. I use mostly French green clay, but am not crazy about the grayish tinge to it. Have tried most of the other usual green botanicals too, but eventually all I've tried have...

My favorite supplier, sob sob, going to a minimum order policy of $100 or $20 small order fee for anything under $100 as of Feb 4. I'd seen the policy change mentioned, but just read it. This really hurts :thumbdown: