Recent content by Ephemerella

Even if you have your bathroom totally redone, you will forever battle mold issues if you can't mitigate moisture in the air. You might spend thousands and find yourself in the same exact position again, sooner than you imagine. It appears that you live in a very humid climate. I would suggest...

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The other thing you could consider is putting a dehumidifier in your bathroom to control moisture. Also be sure your vent fan is properly working and its being used. My master bath is an odd shape in a corner of the house and doesn't have naturally good air circulation. We run the vent fan...

https://www.bath-fitter.com/ Just a word of warning, google up some bathfitter horror stories. Putting in these surrounds is a fast easy and fairly cheap way to dress up a bathroom, but everything that is sealed behind the surround stays sealed... moisture, mold, leaks. Just because you can't...

Praying for you, and his family. Its incredibly hard to process shocks like this, and hard to move past the notion of not actually knowing a person. You have every right to feel all the emotions you're feeling, and then some. About a year ago, I discovered that a man I was engaged to and had...

@akseattle, we've all been there! 😂 On the occasions that I had mishaps with sugar, I simply strained the lye and proceeded with my soap, and did not attempt to try to add sugar back in. The soap came out fine.

What a great video @DeeAnna ! Thank you so much for sharing!

So I've made the sugar boo-boo. I've absent-mindedly added it to the lye water after I added the lye, and I've lazily not fully dissolved the sugar crystals in the water before adding my lye to it. In both cases, the sugar caramelizes and gets clumpy and sinks to the bottom, and/or sticks to my...

Well, that might be the issue there... too much horsepower... as if there is such a thing 😂 But there can be in soap making. I started my soapy journey with a lowly lil' $11 Hamilton Beach I got at the supermarket, and it was the best durn SB I ever used. Only drawback, they don't last. I went...

No, I haven't tried vybar. I honestly match my FOs to my wax/wick/vessel combo. There are so many FOs out there; for me, it's a process of finding the ones that work for my set up.

Candle science is great, good people with responsibly sourced products and sound advice, but as you noted, you still have to test, because every combination is different. I heat my 464 to 195°, add FO at 185°, stir for a full minute, and wait to pour until it is in the 145-150° range into my...

I'm certainly not the most experienced chandler here, and I don't know what wax you are using, but it looks like you have heavy frosting and sink holes. Candlemaking can be frustrating as it is a try-and-see endeavor. And even more maddening, the fault doesn't always lie in the execution or...

Well, was going to chime in with my 2¢ but @not_ally stole my reply :p Agreed 100% with their experience and findings re Kokum and Mango.

Not taking up this challenge, but wanted to say...

Darn, Nancy's applesauce molded MELT