Recent content by DaKakashi

Hello guys, I live in Israel and we don't have any type of supply shop for soap making and the shipping from other countries is really expensive. I'm going to visit the UK next week with my family, and I'm looking for soap supply shops. specifically, I'm looking for clays, natural colorants, and...

I live in Tel Aviv right now :)

Thanks for the tips! i'll definetly start doing the zap test from now on :) And I use only natural colorants for my soap. In this case, it's dead sea mud for the black part (which is very cheap here in Israel), and for the orange part I use sweet paprika. The color is amazing, but after half...

It is! I'm going to try it straight away :) thanks!

So, I zap tested the soaps, and they didn't zap :D hmm... until now my soaps never tested pink with phenolpthalien, probably because I use oils with very low ph (the olive oil is 0.2) and with a high superfat (between 5-6 normally), so I never used the zap test before, only phenolpthalien. I...

When I only started making soaps, all the guides that I read said that you have to be prepared and accept the fact that sometimes you can fail. too much lye, too much oils, a soap that don't gets into the gel phase... the options of failure were endless, so I was so sure that one day I will have...

I'm Daniela, 22 years old from Jerusalem, Israel. I really like to make on my own all sort of stuff, and I think that whatever you can do on your own- do it and don't be lazy and buy it in a store (especially if the product you make is so much healthy). I stumbled across soap making half a year...

thanks for the quick answers! I already cut the soap into pieces and it looks amazing. now I only have to find another stick blender lol

hey guys, I have a question. Yesterday when I was tracing my soap, my stick blender stopped working. I tried to continue to mix it with a hand mixer, but my soap couldn't get to trace, or had a really light trace. All the ingredients were mixed together, nothing was separating, and it wasn't so...