Recent content by girlishcharm2004

Just one thing to add... *Lard/Tallow/Palm *Coconut Oil/Palm Kernel Oil/Babassu Oil *Liquid Oils *Castor Oil And I wholeheartedly agree with this information.

You just gave me a reason to go make some soap. ;) One is how badly the mold will bow without support. The other picture is support the cardboard box gives. I've used it for 2 years now and it's still holding up.

I have both the red and the natural color. I haven't had the red bleed, but maybe I just got lucky. I use the cardboard box that it comes in and works well enough for me, but it's not perfect for selling. The pock marks are from the soap getting too hot. It makes the soap "boil" inside and...

Technically, yes. It won't have as much water to lose to begin with. Others have said that it's far from done; however, I can't say that I've looked at all the molecules under a microscope to know when it's "actually finished." I had an olive oil soap cure for over two years and it was still...

I would suggest weighing it everyday until it does not lose a gram for a week before I would consider it cured.

Mica is a mineral. However, when you buy it for cosmetic uses, you can assume it's synthetic (like how distilled water is synthetic). It's been manipulated in a lab to create a pure substance free of impurities or otherwise heavy, toxic metals. Personally, when I'm browsing the store, if I...

I use 33% lye concentration.

To answer your question from my perspective, it would entirely depend on what the glitter is made of. If it's made from mica or some other ground pearly rock/mineral what-have-you, then I would consider it natural. If the glitter is plastic shavings, then no, it's not natural. Personally, I...

I, personally, don't see the problem with it. I doubt the lye would let any microbes grow in the aloe.

What percentage of beeswax did you use? It sounds like a disaster if you used too much. I would stick to something simple and "tried and true" for a demonstration. You will want to be able to answer the questions your audience will have.

In my defense, the other soap maker and I both signed the rule sheet saying that we understand that booth location in based on presentation. Yes, I do understand the laws. You said, which sounded like you perceived "unwrapped soaps, no weights etc etc" to be wrong since it was in the same...

At my Whole Foods and local grocery store, there are unwrapped and unlabeled soap bars for sale. There was another store that one would just slice off a piece of soap (unwrapped) and pay by the weight. If it's so illegal, I'm surprised that some government agency hasn't pounced on such big...

I have to disagree with this. Bubbly and cleansing (removal of oils) are directly related. The more bubbly a soap is, the more cleansing, drying, stripping it will be. If you are referring to disinfecting (the killing of microbes), then you are correct to say that more bubbles does not mean...

Ah, I wondered about that (if marking the intervals would make a difference), but I haven't tried for because I had my doubts. I have just decided that I don't like making it. Ha.

From my personal experience, 32 drops of essential oil is about 1g. (I'm going to round my math up and down so bare with me.) That would make 100 drops to be very roughly 3 g. 2 lbs (batch weight? not oil weight) is a little less than 1 kg. The would make your percentage ROUGHLY 0.3% -- give...