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Jasmine 5% in jojova, Lily 5% in jojva- are they good oils to use in soap and will they give a strong smell?

I just tested my cured salt soap- WOW! so gentel, so nice, so cleaning and warming! I don't think I'm gonna use it every day because it IS so scrubbing but WOW I am definatly pleasently surprised at how nice it is! also in general I don't like harsh or pealing soaps, if salt soap climbed into my...

pigments in soaps... I know some of the pigments used for soaping are also those used for artists, I also know some of them are considered toxic- they contain heavy metals and other not so nice stuff with them... the question is... how to tell which color's which? for example, from this site...

any tips about working properly with vanilla FO? without discoloring (much), seizing, crumbling, overheating and all that vanilla trouble?

this is the 3rd time I am making milk and honey soap, to see same weird results which I don't understand. I am using 900g oils: 1/2 OO, 1/4 CO, 1/4 palm oil same lye and same water amount (I make this simple reciepe alot) I switch 1/2 water with goat milk- first I mix the lye with half...

do you use a program to print out lables? I saw people wrap around their soap a line of label, do you have some nice tools to edit these things?

I wanted to dye my soap using SFing oil infusion... so far so good so if I do 10%SF to total batch, then remove 5% oils and mix the rest with lye I end up with 5% SF in total batch, and when I split the batch (to dye some and some to leave) I can add SF oils seperatly so far so good yes? I...

both are acidic so my question would be why use one and not the other?

I recieved some credit for bopokstore and I thought to use it for book about soap. I am already past beginner 101 soaper so I am looking for more advanced books, with more in depth info about soapmaking. I would appriciate any thoughts! thanks

do you make special facial soaps? if so- what's in them? I had an idea- high OO %? can it do with 10% SF? SF oils that are "facial benefitial" like- jojoba, rose- hip etc... maybe do HP to preserve SF as oil? does it sound like a good idea?

1. how to add clay to soap? to oils? to water? to discount water and then add at trace? 2. if I wanted to swirl with clays, should I swirl with clay and water? clay and water and some traced soap?

I came upon this site offering micronized plants to be used as pigments. are they stable enough for soap? does anyone know? http://www.lessonia.com/spa-ingredients ... est25.aspx

I saw this site, but somehow it does not add up (for instance this looks like wayy too much patchuli PGOs) does anyone use it or tried it before? http://www.thesage.com/calcs/fragcalc.html

first is lufah soap, with tea tree EOs, the lufah was hard to cut and hard to navigate so the soap is nice and firm but shaoes are odd Uploaded with ImageShack.us second is a refreshing summer CP soap with mint and tea tree EOs, colored with alfalfa and green tea, also expiremented with...

I was wonderding your input for my expirment... I did 600g oil batch (meaning 600+80g of lye+200g of water+ 30gSF)=900g total HPd it, it is said that HP should gel AND evaporate most of the water measured my batch in the mold... 800g meaning 100g of water is still IN THE SOAP... that means...

for a woman whom I know and love but is not a close friend!!! she bought on CP GM and honey (wow probablly for a good reason!! it is the best one ever) and ALSO she bought jojoba- rosmary- HAPPYYYYYYYY :D

I wish to do some HP green soap, my options are- green clay- would rather not because of the drying affect comfrey gel- it is yellowish green so I doubt it will become solid strong green green tea? alfalfa dried pallets??? if one of these things can turn into a deep nice green please tell...

I tried to find instructions about hp on the stove (when to put on the heat and when to remove) but all I could find were pretty vauge instructions- more about the stages that the soap should pass and not clear enough about when to turn the heat ON and when OFF (I'm using gas based stove)...

anyone used it in soap before? what is it like in soap?

and how? could I swirl with it for example? (I just recieved 5kg of glyceryn and would like to use it somehow :-))