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I thinking about trying a silicone tray molds. My question about these is what is the best way to separate or cut the bars apart? Looking at: https://www.brambleberry.com/shop-by-product/molds/silicone/pure-soap-silicone-tray-mold/V000727.html

After looking, reading and watching tons of videos, I finally decided to give my hand at CP soap making. I wanted to try a simple recipe with few ingredients and those I can get locally. I settled on a 63% OO, 35% CO and 2% beeswax (hey, I'm a beekeeper) and I went with a 5% SF. Everything...

a journey

Thanks. We don't make beeswax candles. I am careful when uncapping the frames and remove as little wax as possible. After rendering and filtering the wax, we sort it for particular use. The best wax is kept for lip balms (and now lotion bars) and the balance is used for waxing new frames as...

Thanks. My lip balm is equal parts be weight Beeswax, Coconut oil ans Shea butter (all organic). This has a good consistency and feedback has been great. In my lip balm, Peppermint, Tangerine (tangerine and sweet orange mixed) and "Margarita Lime" have done very well. I have not started to...

After reading and looking on and off for 10 years, I decided to start making soap. We live on a small hobby size farm. I have a small side business selling heirloom seed, we raise a few heritage chickens and I have honeybees which we sell honey from and I use the wax to make lip balm. I am...