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So I made a batch of rose patchouli soap, 31 oz with the following recipe 10.85 oz Olive pomace 6.2 palm 6.2 Coconut oil 3.1 cocoa butter 1.86 castor 1.79 avocado oil 1 sweet almond oil 4.2 lye 7.5 oz H20 3 oz coconut milk I added some Kaolin clay and used titanium dioxide mixed with some...

So yesterday I made 2 2lb batches of soap...Sigh The one I made in the morning was a orange, cinnamon, clove EO blend...as soon as I turned my stick blender on it siezed, worse than I have ever seen before, I truly couldn't even glop it in the mold, I had one big bowl shaped soap! So trying...

So one of the things that takes the most time for me when I am soapmaking is getting my TD where I need it to be, it takes forever to get all the clumps out and I like it to sit a while so it can disperse before adding in the soap batter. I was wondering, and I am sure this is not a unique...

Here are my newest creations!

So I unmolded a soap last night from my new silicone loaf mold and there were these little bubble like things, perfect little dots all over the sides, they almost seem like they are inside the soap since I can't actually feel them if that makes any sense. I know its tough to know without a pic...

So I have been using EVOO for my soaping since I started, purchasing on sale from the grocery store. Well I decided ordering online in bulk was the way to go and ordered 8lbs of olive oil, but ordered pomace. What is the difference? Do you prefer one over the other?

Here are 2 of my most recent adventures in soap making! The first is a Lemon Lavender, I purchased such a large bottle of Lemon FO I needed to figure out some more uses for it, the scent has retained amazingly so far and smells like my favorite Yankee Candle scent! This is a ITP Swirl and I...

I purchased a bottle of Rice Brand Oil and sweet almond oil the other day, from the little that I have read it seems the rice bran is a good substitute for palm oil, is that correct? And it seems sweet almond oil is more of a superfatting additive rather than a base oil, what qualities may that...

So I did a trip to my sorta local soap supply store yesterday and picked up some stuff that I really don't know what I would do with. The first is stearic acid, I was actually looking for sodium lactate (I think) and ended up with this, what is its use in cp soap? I also picked up some clay...

Hi there! So I have been soaping for about two months now and I have to say...I am addicted! I just received a large order of oils and scents and I am so excited to play some more! The one thing that is seeming to overwhelm me a bit is colors...I have a few colors that I purchased from a local...

So I made some pumpkin pie soap last night soaping at room temp, my recipe was 12 oz olive 5.10 coconut 4.50 palm 3.00 shea 3.00 lard 2.4 castor 4.043 lye 9.90 liquid (I used 5 oz h20 and 4.9 of slurried goats milk at trace) 6% sf I also added 2oz pumpkin and 1 tsp of pumpkin pie spice along...

I am sure this is a newbie question if there ever was one! I purchased some freezer paper to line my soap molds and I just cannot get the hang of doing it! I end up with wrinkles all over the paper which I am sure will transfer to my soap! I end up not lining them and I am not getting the...

So I have made 2 batches of CPOP cupcake soaps that came out great, but this last batch didn't turn out at all, as soon as I put it in the oven the "frosting" melted into a big mess! The only thing I did different is use a small amount of goats milk instead of the coconut milk I usually use. Any...

I have read in a few posts about adding glycerine to mulitple things for soap making, such as adding it to titanium dioxide before adding to cp. I've been using about a teaspoon of water to my colorants to dissolve and some colorants I have actually say they are for glycerine soap but they work...

Here is my 2nd try at soap cupcakes, the pic isn't that great but I was pretty happy with the results so I wanted to share. I figured out how to use my titanium dioxide (putting it directly in the batch definitely doesnt work) and the bottoms are a creamy white, don't mind my leaning tower of...

I have some chunks of African black soap that I purchased, is there any way to use them in cp?

My soaps look short and chubby compared to others I have seen! Need to find a different soap mold

I have tried a few batches of soap and they seem pretty drying. I need help coming up with a more moisturizing/conditioning recipe. Here is the last one I tried. 11.25 oz olive oil 3.75 palm oil 3.75 coconut oil 2.5 castor oil 2.5shea butter 8.25 oz liquid (I do 5 oz water and the rest...

How low can you let your oils and lye solutions temps become before mixing together? I have just done my lye solution but need to unexpectedly run an errand? Will it be okay after a couple hours?

so I made my 2nd batch of soap yesterday and used evaporated goats milk, I should have read more on it beforehand because I subsituted all of the water with the goats milk. It is a darker orange color and seems to be hardening ok, will it still turn out?