Recent content by Bennett Tholborn

Yeah I’ll try doing that. My kitty must’ve been curious about the molds before I used it!

I know I always clean everything; it was the first time I had help and things weren’t done that I was told happened I think they look glossy because I just unmolded them, and I added titanium dioxide to the batch to whiten. Should I let it cure awhile before trying to wipe?

I’m worried that it might be deep

I just made a batch of soap and guess I forgot to clean the mold. There’s dust on them and I’m not sure what to do. Please help! I was trying to sell them! Look worse in person!

To scent my cold process soaps I only am using essential oils, and not fragrance oils because I just don’t want to use fragrance oils. Has anyone tried using natural flavors? Essential oils are just expensive, don’t always work out, and are limited. The flavors I’m looking at ingredients are...

Thank you! I’m just hoping to cut the normal 4-6 weeks to 3 or so.

Hello, I am have read that using a dehumidifier will speed up curing time of cold process soap. Has anyone tried this? Also, is there a possibility that this will weaken the strengths of the fragrance from essential oils that I used? I only fragrance with EO and not FO. I’m on a crunch to get...

Thank you SO much for you time and advice! Taking the time out of your day to help me means so much thank you! I will try lower temperatures and just have to play around with EO’s. Thank you!

Thank you!

Thank you Earlene! I have a few recipes, as well as a few molds. The wooden loaf molds seemed to be the ones that cracked and got the hottest. One had soap that had 11oz coconut oil, 11oz palm oil, 10oz olive oil, 1oz coffee oil, with added coffee grounds and coffee EO. My other had 11oz...

I have only made a few batches of soap, and have a few questions. First, I’m not really trying to promote my soaps going through the gel phase since I use essential oils and natural botanicals that I’m sure are heat sensitive. What should the temperature of my cold process soaps be? I’ve...