Recent content by DawninWA

Peppermint doesn't fade for me, either. I like it mixed with lavender or spearmint.

It actually makes a really nice liquid soap, if you wanted to venture into the liquid soap realm (if you haven't yet)

I use powdered goat milk. I mix it straight into the oils, then add lye water. No scorching, just well behaved soap.

Sorry, my recommendation is to get a stick blender. It's seriously night and day. Coconut oil soap traces in seconds (maybe a minute of its being finicky). I have to be careful not to get it too thick to pour because I use cavity molds.

You guys are so nice, making new Christmasy soaps for everyone. I give people my leftover farmers market soap 😆.

I use lye. It's what my customers react best to. 🤷‍♀️. "Oh, good, it's lye soap! That's the best kind!" I pretty much only sell a one small farmers market.

Your soap is perfectly safe to use, don't throw it out. If you wanted to try again, make the tree part first, shape it, then make the second half of the batter and pour it in

I made a lovely batch of coffee soap, the fragrance morphed so much (went in smelling like burnt black coffee, came out chocolatey), that I decided to look it up to see the reviews. Right there in the description, "not skin safe". I tried it for myself, and it definitely wasn't skin safe. I...

It just needs more time, it's not done saponifying

I do it differently than most people, I don't use a crock pot. I use a big stainless steel bowl on a hot plate. I put the temp pretty low, leave it uncovered, and stir often. I'm a rebel. When it gets to applesauce, it's almost done, I stir it with my spatula at this point and when it comes...

I've cut in 3 hours before (hot process though). The soap is still hot, it's a little weird. 5 or 6 hours max.

Ivory shea butter instead of the more yellow one, and high oleic safflower in place of olive. I like 100% coconut oil soap lately, and unless the fragrance discolors, it's very white.

The one that is just vegetable is probably soybean. These aren't used much in soap because they go rancid easily and can contribute to DOS.

I mix them with the fragrance oils, but that's mostly so I'll stop forgetting the fragrance oils.

Yes, I just moved and made part of my new garage my soap studio. It gets hot in there. The oils were fairly young, the lard was new. I'll keep the oils in the house during summer. It's a really nice soap, it'll be fine for home use. I'm happy with the recipe, I usually use lard or tallow...