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Well, yesterday marked my 3 years of soap making! I have not been active on the SMF, @caracara mentioned my absence So here I am! Here is my first batch of soap verses the 2 I made yesterday to celebrate! 1st batch was plain old generic Crisco soap. Other 2 are milk soaps, one will be a combo...

Happy New Year! I officially opened my business, set up an online store, and did my first craft fair in 2014. I had lots of requests to make liquid soap and liquid laundry soap. I've only made powdered laundry soap and have done the recipe to make it liquid, but it's goopy texture. I'm...

Any seasoned soapmakers out there that have a fool proof method for making tax time a breeze? I have my purchase receipts and my sales receipts. Hubby is going to make an excel sheet for both so I can see how my first year went.

I have been going through old threads and new threads. Do I have to use both KOH and NaOH to make a decent bar of shave soap? Or can it be done with good old NaOH only?

Hey East-Coasters, hope you are all safe! What are your blizzard plans for the weekend? Luckily where I live we have about 6-8 inches on the ground and not getting lake effect this weekend as far as I can tell. I am planning to capitalize on all the freshly fallen stuff and making more...

So, I still consider myself a newbie. I just wanted to show off my very first batch of soap,that will turn one year old on 12/28. Gross right? With the wonderful power of this forum, I can zap you back in time to when this was a beautiful creamy white bar of soap...

I cannot find it. Either on here, or in the Soaping101 Study hall, someone posted a tutorial for taking all of your soap scraps to "clean" them of all the unnecessary additives to make soap for laundry purposes. Please, someone tell me they know what I am talking about? Basically you boil all...

I wanted to make a gentle soap for the winter months! Castor 5% Coconut 5% Olive Oil 75% Shea 15% Subbed pureed carrots and yogurt for water, and added finely ground oatmeal

I have recently started using water discounts in my soaps to help set them up quicker. Tonight I used my recipe sheet, forgetting that it had a WD, so when I stepped away to mix my colorants in my squeeze bottles it was at super heavy trace...then I realized my mistake and added in more...

I decided to rebatch with all of the shavings left over from planing my Christmas soaps....I knew it was going to be an ugly brown soap, but I took Genny's suggestion of darkening the soap to make lumps of coal! So far so good! These will go to my coworkers at Christmas :)

Here are my soaps hat are curing for the holiday season! They need to be cleaned up around the edges, but here they all are! I think I need to make a mint one to round it out though! From Left to Right: No Room at the Inn (blend of essential oils: Frankincense, Orange, Tea Tree, Sage...

Yep, I am putting out a request for you all to vote for me ;) http://saponifier.com/vote-design-mania-contest/ #41 under the paint chip challenge would be my Cactus and Sea Salt Soap! :)

Soaping 101's facebook page has a cupcake challenge going on, and I gave it a shot--I had the perfect fragrance from Candle Science: Red Velvet Cake! I colored and scented the bottom only, left the piping soap uncolored and unscented to keep the creamy-cream cheese frosting look. Dusted with...

Well, I thought i was going to find some local goat's milk, but that didn't work out :( I want to make GM soap, and I am thinking about buying the powder form that WSP has. Is it better to reconstitute the powder with water and then freeze, or add the powder directly to the cooled lye water?

I have been dabbing into pigments more and more, but seem to be running into very thick trace! I mix 2 teaspoons of pigment in some of the oil I reserve from my recipe. I don't know if I am over mixing, but when I add the colored oil mixture to my batch it thickens very quickly! What am I doing...

I've been a little preoccupied with work and school to post photos lately, but here are my most recent soaps. I am still learning techniques, such as not making your pencil line too thick...and pine tar is going to smell like burnt pine cones!

For those of you in the United States, what % milkfat milk do you use? I know that whole milk/cream will result in a higher % of fat in your soap, but can you still get the benefits of milk from a 1% milk? My hubby doesn't like drinking milk that has been in the fridge past 7 days when the...

I just put this little 1-pounder to bed. This is my attempt at making a shampoo bar for my husbands dandruff. Can't tell you how it will turn out, or how well it will work, but holy heck, pine tar stinks! Using Genny's soap recipe as a guide I did: 25% Avocado Oil 10% Castor Oil 30% OO...

Kroger has their cooking utensils on sale, buy one, get one, I totally forget to look at a vegetable peeler! But for $5, I now have 6 plastic measuring cups for mixing and pouring-no longer will I make messes trying to pour my colored soap batter from a yogurt cup!:thumbup:

So I am getting more adventurous with my soaps. This weekend was the the hubs and I's 6th wedding anniversary which is the "sugar" anniversary. So we decided to make a soap with a natural sweetener--some local molasses! Knowing from other experience it is best to non-gel sugar soaps, I froze...