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Here is a picture of yesterday's cider soap. I posted the recipe (for advice--thank you all!) Friday night. The EO combo is orange 5X, rosewood, cedarwood, black pepper and anise. I boiled hard apple cider and let it go flat. I substituted 1/2 of the h2o for the cider. Next time I think...

Hello friends, I am just a few months new to the forum, but have been wondering where Alchemy and Ashes has gone? I really liked reading her posts and learned a lot from her. I am also hoping to hear about the results of her one oil experiments. I am getting ready to make another cp...

Hi Everyone, This is my 8th batch. I experimented with oil infused alkanet (only about 4 oz- which had been infusing for a week) and rose clay added to that to get this color. I like it. Not sure if the alkanet will fade with the rose clay in there. It looks different than the other rose...

Here is the photo of the Goats milk soap with woad. Am I posting in the wrong place? Moved Is this what woad does? I like it, but it's not pale blue

Hello Folks, I am on my sixth batch---here is my question: The soap we made this a.m. is a goats milk soap with palm, coconut, olive, macadamia and castor. We added lavender, chamomile and frankencense EO. We tried to color it with woad (first time with woad) following the ratio...

Hello people, I am watching my soap gel, I think! It is a goatsmilk soap with rose clay added. I feel confident in the recipe--ran it through the lye calc and fragrance calc. It has added fragrance oil called Freckles from MMS. I think I did everything carefully and well.. The only...

Hello friendly soap making folks. I am getting ready to make a new kind of soap. This will be my fourth batch. I am hoping this recipe sounds reasonable to those of you with more experience. It is a coffee goats milk soap. I ran it through the lye calculator to get the lye amount, but am...

Does anyone have a recommendation for a CP coffee soap recipe? I would like to try to make one this weekend. I have some different common soap oils including palm, coconut, canola and olive. I also have cocoa butter and shea butter which I haven't yet tried. This will be my third...

I have a question about how my first batch of goats milk honey oatmeal soap went last night. I froze the milk and added the lye to it, but it never got hot-like I expected it to -only to about 74, but it did seems as though the lye was well dissolved. I think it should have been slushy instead...