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If you look into using hickory, walnut, ash trees or oak you'll have a lot more potassium remaining- corn cobs work very well also. Rain barrel water is ideal as it is already soft. You might consider as well that your resulting soap will be soft and ugly if you don't salt your soap. See to it...

It may behoove those that know to help guide those who don't, as every crafter benefits when the standards elevate the same way all are suspect when inferior product is sold to the unwitting. Perhaps it would be more beneficial to help address the labeling or characteristic issues of their...

It's a "NorasSoapScents" soap, the ingredient label:- "Ingredients include Olive Oil, Palm Oil, Coconut Oil, Shea Butter, Cocoa Butter, Sweet Almond Oil, Castor Oil, Canola Oil, Tussah Silk, Kaolin Clay, Sodium Hydroxide, Coffee grounds, Fragrance, Mica or Oxide Colorants and body safe FDA...

We use an Epson Workforce (under $100 new) that uses T-126 or 127 cartridges. The generic brand refilled cartridges from the ebay are the same as Kittish pays- (between $1 and $1.50 each depending on how many you order)- we can print around 500 dense typed pages of 90% black (100 pages for 30¢)...

I am awestruck with each and every single photograph of those soaps! I had no idea that such things could be done and can't help but to say- You Soapers Rock!

I am by no means an expert on the topic however from my experience there are several contributing factors to lard having a porkie smell. Regular lard is rendered from the intermuscular (meat) and subcutaneous (skin) fat. Grind or chop the raw fat yourself so you can make absolutely certain that...

I believe making soap out of wood ashes is one of the "HSCG Master Certification" requirements.

You might try the "Abraham Lincoln Birthplace National Historical Park" in KY- I believe they may do some soaping on site as they use a good amount of tallow.

From time to time McKernan Packaging Clearing House has them- the inventory changes periodically. http://mckernan.com

If you ask the butcher for "kidney fat" there will be no mistaking what it is that you want.