Recent content by ahauer88

Oh and it was a 40oz recipe :s I added 10 oz water total. Split that roughly in half in the mold. So about ~22oz of that batter ended up getting close to 3 or 3.5oz extra water.

Hi folks, last night I made a lavender drop swirl loaf. Everything was going sooooo well until I went to pour my accent colors for the drop swirl, to my horror they had set up and gotten thick within 30 seconds of pouring the base layer. They looked barely emulsified when I blended them! :( and...

Great thank you, I think I'll do something a little more tried and true this time for the fill-in recipe. No issues with selling, they're just for personal use and given to close family and friends.

I love this!!! The only problem in my case is that my embeds are going to end up way too small to pull this off :( I'll definitely do this next time, though, that looks really nice.

Hi all, as a follow up question to my failed batch yesterday... I used a lard/olive/coconut/castor recipe that ended up failing, so I chopped up that soap to use as embeds. What I'm wondering is, can I use a coconut/palm/olive recipe to fill in around the embeds? Or, does the recipe have to be...

So I made my first pencil line soap yesterday which was an EPIC fail to say the very least! It looked absolutely beautiful but the layers separated, I am also embarrassed to admit that I went nuts thinking "how hard can it be" and I made a total of 6 slanted pencil lines in a soap design :oops...

I would like to try doing a HP batch next but I am used to CP. I always see that people advise adding extras after cooking it. Is there any problem with adding extras before cooking it? For instance I like to add kaolin clay and I find that it is so much easier to disperse with a stick blender...

Will any adverse effects happen? Just curious. All of the advice I've seen is to have the lye water and oils as close as possible in temperature. Here's what's going on, I went home for my lunch break and mixed up lye and water and measured my oils for this goat's milk soap I want to try...

I just wanted to report back and say "thanks" to you all and also update you on what I did! I ended up going with 5% castor oil and I am very happy I didn't exceed that, at least for this recipe. It accelerated so quickly and that is the only thing I can really attribute to it. I did an almost...

I would love to try the following recipe: 10% castor, 20% coconut, 35% olive, 35% palm. I found it online, cannot find it back but will link here for credit when I do find it. I have been learning a bit more about formulating soap recipes and this looks like it would give me a great balance of a...

Hi all, Came up with another question while I was trying to figure out what else was going on with my goat's milk batch, hope you don't mind me stopping by again. I noticed that when I added the lye to the goat's milk and water mixture (I put in a 5 oz frozen chunk of condensed/canned goat's...

I think I'll wait a bit longer before starting to freak out, then. :) It sounds like what I'm seeing is pretty normal. Thank you both!

Oops!! Yes, that is a typo! I fixed it. Sorry about that. My o's turned to zeroes somehow. :) Thank you for the reply. So does it harden up after 8 or so weeks or will there always be a bit of a sticky feeling to it?

Hi, Last Friday night I made this goat's milk soap from the Nerdy Farm Wife: https://thenerdyfarmwife.com/how-to-make-goats-milk-soap-from-grocery-store-items/ Ingredients were: 22oz Olive Oil 8oz Coconut Oil 5 oz chilled water 5 oz canned/condensed goat's milk (Meyenberg) 4.2oz lye I...

Hi all, I'm really excited to get started on my newest batch of soap this weekend. I've done a few, and while I liked how the batches generally looked (and smelled), I've gotten a partial gel phase and it's been disappointing. I guess, bear in mind I was soaping in my garage last time and it...