Bonjour from Quebec

Hello,

I have been making soap for a couple of months, some whipped shea butter, shaving soap, and aftershave is coming soon. I have read 10+ books, about 200 articles and countless threads on soapmaking. Read a number of book on perfume creation, lotion making, etc.

I have a passion for making things. I built my coffee roaster last year, and now am and expert roaster. Roast for friends and family. Even learned programming and arduino to fine tune the roasting process. I build an electric bike 4 years ago, and it is now still running smooth at 5000 km. I also collect fountain pen, where i leanred to repair and resell pens.

From studies, i am a lawyer and biochemist. Spent 4 years in labs doing scientific experiment, from cloning gene, to grow bacteria for development of a vaccine.

Soap making/ and cosmetic making is a way to reunite with my passion for creating and my scientific background. I hav e upwards of 70 pounds of soap all in great shape except for three. Coffee odor, which smells like leather, amber and sandalwood which had just too much fragrance, and my latest salt soap which crumbled (to be expected from a new recipe). All my recipe were custom made and I am learning what I like from a soap from the cleaning factor to bubbles and hydration.

I am having a blast doing two soap/cosmetic night per week.

I am happy to be part of this great community!

Cheers

Claude

Hello Claude,

Welcome to the forum! :wave:

Hi and welcome! You'll have to post photos of the coffee roaster. I bet your whole house smells divine when you are roasting!

Claude, welcome to what can be a life-long addiction.

Bonjour Claude from the other end of the country (BC).

Bonjour et bienvenue!

Welcome! You will fit right in with this group of people who enjoy making things by hand, and experimenting with new recipes and techniques.

. Here is a pick of my coffee roaster. I believe i made a thread on the coffee roasting forum about how I built it. May have t see if I can dig it up.

Thank you all for the warm welcome.

Ha, what a contraption. Welcome. Your coffee roaster is impressive!

Welcome Claude!

Sweet looking roaster! My nephew roasts his own coffee beans, too, but not in anything as cool looking as that!

IrishLass

Roasting is like soaping, once you start there is no going back to the before state. The luxury and cost saving is great. You can modulate the roast to your personal preference.

Roasting is now a 20 minute enjoying the smell in the backyards with the kids playing around.

Waiting for pine tar ( next batch of custom formula) and sodium lactate (next batch of 72% evoo soap). And perfume sample bottle to start making a custom scent. And all the other ingredient to make an after shave... Almost out.


Thanks all!

That machine is too cool! Thanks for posting it.

Hmmmm, fresh roasted coffee. Too cool.

Here is the build thread for my coffee roaster

http://www.homeroasters.org/php/forum/viewthread.php?thread_id=3699

Started a Kickstarter project. The Luxurious Shaving Brush Project. If you want to visit my project here is the link.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1568607971/the-luxurious-shaving-brush-project

Hello and welcome!! How cool!

Thank you for the welcome

todaya new book! I hope to learn some from this book. Many chapters seems to be basic chemistry...pretty good in chemistry after my biochem bachelor. Hopefully the others will be golden .

Also lotion making here i come! New balance 0.01g resolution.. Small batches wont be compounding a +/- 1g. For small batches were 2-3g were needed this will ensure good repeatability!

Wow, my kickstarter campaign for a shaving brush including shaving soap is at 40 hours of the end. 81% funded, but most pledge are for the brush +/- soap.

I think there is a good chance it will succeed and boost commercialisations plans.