Recent content by Heather McClain

Who knows about adding citric acid to lye water?? I have formulated everything properly BUT I freaking forgot to add the citric to the distilled water before I added the lye so I added it after the lye was dissolved. ***Well….I highly suggest NOT doing that as all kind is sizzling and scary...

Sign up list: 1. Mobjack - time to break out the level! 2. Jersey Girl- This will be fun! Ok…where are you @AliOop? Time to break out that Cheshire Cat! 3. AliOop - I'm here! I'm in! 4. Primrose - did someone say Cheshire Cat?? 5. Vicki C. - This looks tricky but I’ll try it! 6. Heather McClain-...

Well I’m late but here’s my attempt! This was so fun and my first time doing a column pour. Will definitely be trying this again! Edited to add: I chose a recipe high in lard and tallow to keep it fluid longer. I did add goat and coconut milk as I do with all my soaps. It was funny that the...

I made 4 batches of essential soap with coconut cream added as a portion of the water. First time using some of these essential oils. Orange Patchouli Peppermint Eucalyptus Frankincense Lavender with Tomato and Turmeric Lemongrass

This soap hardened up, I cut it and it’s been curing almost 2 weeks. It looks like soap and acts like soap so I’m going to wrap it up and gift it and keep a couple of bars for myself.

My soap is made….it was my very first time trying a column pour. While it looks decent, it could look a lot better. I learned a LOT from this batch. It was only the second time using animal fats in soap. I chose them because they give lots of working time. The only thing I could find around here...

The containers were all sitting together and all the same temp with my infrared thermometer. I used an accelerating fragrance for the soap just in case to make sure it hardened up and was able to cut it several hours after I made it.

I prepped 6 batches of soap 2 days ago. They have 20% coconut oil and 25% palm. My palm oil was fully melted and mixed when I used it. ALL of the other containers had solidified hard oils but this one and all were around 62°F. I was careful to make sure I put the correct oils in all the...

But I only have one slab mold and he will try to steal it!!🤣 Guess I could share….😆

I showed this to my husband and now he’s got ALL kinds of ideas 😂

To sign up for the challenge, please copy and paste this list into the next post, adding your name with the next number. Sign up list: 1. Jersey Girl- Coming out of my cave to try this one. ♥Haven’t used my slab mold yet! 2. AliOop - How can I resist when Jersey Girl is back??? 🥰🥳 3. Vicki C...

Sign up list: (Please copy & paste the list into a new post, then add your name along with the next appropriate number.) 1. dibbles - 🌊 2. AliOop - yay 🏄🏻‍♂️ 3. The_Emerald_Chicken - 🐠 4. Scentimentally Yours 💦 5. Vicki C - 🦑 6. Misschief - I'll give it another go (no maritime emoji for me) 7...

Congratulations everyone!! I love all the entires and stories that went with them ❤️

I see half of an Easter Island statue 🗿

One of the very first soaps I ever made that weren’t melt & pour was dragons blood fragranced and it had a dragon face in it!! I still have these bars I made in 2018. Apart they look like the profile of some kind of demon, but together I see the straight on face of a dragon