Recent content by dragonmaker

Love seeing your healthy bouncy babies!

You don’t need to temper shea butter before making it into soap. Just melt it like any other hard oil and cool it to the desired temperature.

Too cute!

Thanks for all the kind comments, everyone!

I’m flattered! Thank you! I’m not sure you would like the price of the dragon if I sold it. It took me about 10 hours to make it. This dragon likes to sit on my pantry shelf and guards the oatmeal.

Some of my recent makes:

I love it!

I have goats too! I started with Nigerian Dwarfs and now have a couple Nubian/Alpine crosses as well. I hope your new adventure goes smoothly

Grain prices have skyrocketed, and you have to feed grain to lactating goats so they keep producing milk without losing weight. Higher grain costs makes higher milk costs

I allow it to saponify first, then clean it off.

Hooray! I hope she’s on her way to a complete recovery now!

Yes, I’m talking about my water pipes/plumbing.

I don’t like high super fat because my pipes don’t like high super fat. I recommend a low super fat like 1-3% and lowering the amount of coconut oil instead of trying to fix a high coconut oil recipe with pipe-gumming superfat. Just my 2 cents

I’ve learned that dissolving my honey in distilled water then freezing it before adding the lye let’s all the heating drama happen before it becomes soap, and it hasn’t heated my soap batter so far since I started doing honey in my lye solution. I got the idea from IrishLass’s honey soap here...

I recently tried freezing my honey dispersed in distilled water and adding lye to that along with my frozen milk cubes. It did get hot and change color to reddish brown, but it didn’t volcano and the soap batter was lovely to work with as all the heat drama had already happened in the lye solution.