Recent content by Crombie

Coconut Lime One of my top selling soaps is Coconut lime. I get it from Tamera's Soaping Scents facebook group. I have been using her FOs for several years and they are all top notch with good pricing. This is my 100% coconut oil soap with 20% SF, coconut milk as 50% of liquids. HP in crockpot.

First of all, I am excited about being able to buy cheese making kits - something I have always wnated to do. << "Who do you all order from now? What products do you tend to buy the most often." >> I buy from Columbus Oils/Soaper's Choice, Rustic Escentuals, Brambleberry, Wholesale...

Salt Bar Even using 50% salt, you will want to use 80% coconut oil and SF at 20%, no matter what your other % of oils are. You will get significantly reduced lather if you don't from my experience. And, at 50% salt, it is still considered a salt bar. Salt bars range in % by 50 - 100%. Anita...

[I meant to say 15% avocado oil, not olive oil QUOTE=Crombie;451664]All the time! My best selling salt bar is 80% coconut oil, 15% olive oil, and 5% castor oil; SF 20%. I have a good technique for making mine HP. You can see them at: www.sadiesmissionsoaps.com (the black lava and...

Avocado Oil in Salt Bars All the time! My best selling salt bar is 80% coconut oil, 15% olive oil, and 5% castor oil; SF 20%. I have a good technique for making mine HP. You can see them at: www.sadiesmissionsoaps.com (the black lava and the pink grapefruit & bergamot salt bars are 15%...

Pressure Cooker Soap? Has anyone ever tried to actually make soap using a pressure cooker? I googled it and only found this infusion thread. I think it would make a cool experiment, but I don't have a pressure cooker. Lye under pressure might not be the best idea but I love thinking outside...

Labeling Please read Marie Gale's book on proper labeling of soap. The only way you can label your soap "Olive Oil Soap" is if the only ingredient is Olive Oil. So, technically, you cannot name Bastille soap, "Olive Oil Soap".

No More Bubbles Right before I pour my soap batter, I slowing whisk the batter. I don't know why this works but an experienced soaper shared that tip with be and it does work!

Flashpoints: Your Soap Will Not Ignite "Flashpoint is the temperature at which a pure, not mixed or diluted fragrance oil will combust or burst into flames when given an open flame. With CPOP soap, there is no open flame and the fragrance oil has been diluted by over 95% by your soap...

Your Soap Will Not Ignite Please, please show me one example of a soap that has ever ignited. I CPOP all the time with low flash point EOs. In general, flashpoint is a term used for candle making and for those who ship EOs and FOs. In soapmaking, adding EOs (or some FOs) when your batter...

You are talking about a few snipped pieces of silk. Not many people have a scale sensitive to pick up a weight for the amount you would put in the typical home batch of 2 - 5 pounds. For a four-pound batch, I use about the amount of my little fingernail. Some people say the size of a...

True Red Rey is a member of the Soap Guild so I have confidence that his colorants are cosmetic safe. http://www.soapguild.org/memberpage/P/Soap/629/Star-Light-Creations On his home page of http://starlightcreationssupply.weebly.com/ he has a contact us link. I'm sure he would be glad to...

http://starlightcreationssupply.weebly.com/ Rey has a true red that has gotten rave reviews.

Looking forward to hearing about your silk soap experience. Most people add silk to their distilled water and stir well and then add the lye. Some people add to the lye soluton. I use a pre-mixed 1:1 lye solution I get from a chemical plant so I usually add my silk to the addition liquid I...

Flashpoint is a term used in candle making and means nothing in soaping. There is no way to get your soap batter hot enough that it will ignite.