Recent content by Feather

Scentapy, I agree with you on all you wrote. That saying "this is not personal it is business" always rubs me the wrong way. (not you) I've even said it before. It's a common phrase. It still seems so wrong to me. It is personal when someone steals your ideas/recipes/husband so they can...

There are two ways to speed a chemical reaction, mixing (hand mixer), and heating, both facilitate saponification.

Most companies don't make it because it usually takes more than one specialty. 1. A head business person 2. A good marketing person 3. A do-er Most people can't do all three. So I guess if you meet one of those people and you can be one of those people, you can have a better chance at a...

These people were NOT your friends. They are your competitors in business. I had a friend like that once, after she slept with my husband at the time, it pretty much decided things for me, that I wasn't her friend and she wasn't mine. I was once much younger than I am now. :shh:

Being in the same state as Chicago will in no way hinder you from making good soap. Proof of that is that there are clean people north, south, east, and west of Chicago, though not many that are east of Chicago, not for very long, people can only swim in that big lake for so long, you know? I...

My best guess says you made soap too, beginner jitters or not! How cool is that? It's like this, there is a scene in "Cast Away" with Tom Hanks. He finally figures out how to make fire. He dances around the fire and he says "look what I have created I have made fire", then he sings "Come on...

Is it neutralized or not? That is the question. To be or not to be.:lolno: Well first, when you put the recipe in the soap calculator, is it superfatted or not. You have to think of the lye, the impurities of it taking up a certain percent, you have to think of the lye calculator, what...

If you join a forum to share information, you can bet that you'll ask questions and that in all fairness you'll also share information. However, if someone goes way over the boundary of asking for your very tweeked recipe, you don't have to answer them. Or you can tailor your answer in this...

I had this dream that when my former employer went to prison for all his illegal stuff, I'd send him soap on a rope. I do think there is a market for it.:thumbup:

The argument isn't really worth the electrons that are printed on the background image. Recipe for Chocolate Rum Balls: Recipe 1: Buy a chocolate cake with chocolate icing 8 oz of rum dipping chocolate chips Crumble the cake, icing and rum together, drinking some rum for yourself, roll into...

There should be a test for whether something is *a drug* or if it is *a soap*. For instance, ;) , when the item is mixed by hand (glove covered hand) with water the *drug* doesn't lather while the *soap* lathers. Another good test would be for the TSA agent or police to smoke, sniff, or...

I have soap that is 3-4-5-6-7-8 years old. The first year I leave them open to the air on a soap rack, then packed in one layer in cardboard boxes, in a cool dry place, unsealed. In a garage or basement. If you leave them unwrapped and they are scented, they will eventually lose most of their...

heh, You are right! Ingredients: (in order of used most to used least) tallow, puke, olive oil, soy bean oil, essential oil of roast beef, essential oil of barf. Doesn't really work.

well, I'm no expert but I have done a bit of reading here. Have you read about 'salt bars', where you take a high coconut oil CP soap (because it is better at cleaning but very drying) and add 75%-125% salt by weights? Supposedly this type of soap will have some lather/creaminess even with the...

At least you tried! :) When I first read your post, I read, "but it smelled so bad I was gagging and just threw up in it.......". Then I realized I hadn't read it correctly, I had just skimmed it.