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Has anyone experimented with these? I've played around and got good results but then I read that the well known brand ones are made using sodium alginate and potato starch for a really silky foam. Off I goes to buy both of these products and play some more BUT when I add the potato starch the...

Can someone please tell me if a 'soap' made from surfactants/emulsifiers would be considered a GOOD shaving soap? If not, why not? :D

i'm sure in this multi cultural group there's someone who can help me! a lady from madagascar, who has the most beautiful, unlined skin, wants me to make her some soap that will get rid of the darker patches she has around the mouth area. do any of you dark skinned ladies know of anything that...

I hope it's ok to post this here. This is an international soaping competition being run by a soap mould company. You can vote for as many soaps as you want by clicking 'like' on their individual photos. Voting ends on 26th April and results will be published on 3rd May. ***please note...

could anyone please tell me what this smells like? all i can find out about it is that it's got 49 ingredients and i've got someone who wants some similar smelling soap. none of the fragrance oil finder sites have it listed - i'm hoping you guys can help!! pretty please? :crazy:

i have some space at the top of my house which i'd like to use for my ever expanding collection of soaps but the problem is that the room has big windows, gets a LOT of sunshine and gets really, really hot in summer time - would this harm the soap? i mostly soap using natural ingredients as...

would anyone care to share a recipe for a small batch using a high percentage of shea butter? i've never used it as i'm too scared of making an expensive mistake if i try to formulate a recipe!

i made a small batch of soap to try using cream but ONE half of the batch came out spotty. the spotty half had pamplemousse eo and red oxide colouring and the other half just had crushed peppermint leaves and no eo. would the citrussy eo have reacted with the cream? the spots don't go away...

hi everyone, i would like to make some soap for a friend who has had a mastectomy, something which will be gentle and healing (if possible!) on her scars. does anyone have any suggestions? thanks!

i'm making a red, white and blue soap for a challenge and wondered if anyone has any tips on the best combination of oils for a nice shade of white - i don't have any td and no time to get any as the deadline is sunday - i DO have bentonite and cornstarch?? oils i use are olive, sunflower...

i just read this article http://www.thesimpledollar.com/2010/09/ ... made-soap/ and they wrote "I added a few squirts of some scented lotion that I have leftover from a couple of Christmases ago. I’m not sure how much of a difference it will make in the final product, but it might add a...

has anyone tried to cp soap with it?? i was thinking it could replace either honey/sugar and add creaminess at the same time.... or am i on a loser??

i usually mix my oils and lye together at room temperature but read on another posting here that it's possible to soap at too cool a temperature. i sometimes find when i add the lye the soap thickens almost immediately and i presumed this was a trace but i recently had a problem with a high %...

would this be even possible?? i was thinking of: 1000g olive 250g coconut 535g readymade liquid lye @ 30.5% (to give s/f 10%) and as much reduced Guinness as i can put in there. thesage.com says liquid can be up to 468ml but can i add more? i'd like to put as much of 'the black...

i made these 2 weeks ago but already they're smooth and hard and give a gorgeous lather - can i now use them even though they haven't had the 6-8 week cure? they don't zap.

i'm just wondering what the rules and regulations are and how difficult it is to get started? i'm not ready yet but want to gen up in advance. thanks!

hi folks - me again! spurred on by the success of the salt bar recipe from irishlass, i was thinking i'd love to make some specific bars for friends for christmas :shock: and i was wondering what does everyone think the best ingredients are for gardeners, potters and artists (oil and acrylic...

hi everyone, i would love to make a small batch of salt bars but when i run the recipe through soapcalc, it's all off the scale - is this ok? how do i know?? the recipe is: 100% coconut oil 100% coconut milk 25% salt 13% superfat I put in 500g coconut oil and got the following...

hello everyone, i'm TOTALLY new to soapmaking, in fact i just made my first batches yesterday and now i realise just how little i know...... looking forward to learning how NOT to create a caustic soda volcano and how to stop my whizzed up hot process soap from 'growing' out all over the jug...