Recent content by Fernie

I am horrible. I do one color. I have tried to play with colors and they never turn out so I stopped. My lavender soap gets some alkanet root. I do add powdered chocolate to my chocolate peppermint soap, which makes it a cream color with brown spots. My face soap is black. Most of my soaps are...

Greetings all, I have been a member for a while, but never introduced myself. I go by Fernie with most people. It is a nickname I was given a few years back that actually stuck. Soaping is a hobby that I make a few dollars doing. Not something I do to get rich, just enough to keep me busy and...

It was interesting. We actually did make real soap. No scents. No colorants. It always came out smelling like a bar of Ivory soap. I didn't talk at all. I just did as instructed. There was one person each "shift" that was allowed to add the lye mix. My job was to stir. Just so exciting. Couldn't...

Sometimes we all just need to take a break. My husband works away from home and is gone for weeks on end. I do not get online when he is home. And sometimes just giving yourself a break from whatever is a good thing.

You are very welcome. At least you didn't spend over a year just reading this place. I got started years ago (pre-internet) doing it for reenactments of colonial/revolutionary times. I don't make it over an open fire in a giant cauldron any longer. Now I use a crockpot. I am still learning...

I make a coffee soap with coffee for the water and grounds in the soap. My husband uses it to get off the grease and grime. I have noticed that it does remove the strong odors you get from cutting certain foods. I do make it with the cheapest brand of ground coffee I can find, Have not noticed...

The soaps I have used Canola oil in, tend to slime and they don't seem to last long. I would have to ask my soap testers, but I am sure that the one batch I did with canola was the one batch none of them liked.

Welcome.