Recent content by Hilge

Yes it is! Well spotted :)

I see a rhino! Lovely.

My package. All the scents have different colour stripes and name.

I made some green soap with moss fragrance and seaweed. This will be interesting! Looks very forestry and smells like Hobbit woods :)

Thanks Lenarenee! I used liquid colours, mainly yellow but a small splash of green :) It came out really fresh lime yellow. I think it goes well with the fresh scent and seasalt.

I made some funny coloured salt soap!

Today I made a test batter with shea butter (with coconut, olive, castor and rapeseed) and split the batter in two portions before adding fragrance (I decided to save time and test two new fragrances at the same time). The other one got vanilla-coffee scent and cardamom, the kind use use in...

Thanks for explanation Jaccart! The only thing I do, is cover the batch with towels and maybe a piece of cardboard under the towel. I don't use any extra heating or oven or things, and usually it gels nicely (maybe not all the way but I don't see the difference in final product).

This is what came out of my bambu & basil. I love the greenish colour and it has a very nice hardness, foams well. BUT! It smells awful :D I think the basil EO was a bad choice. I wanted a scent with nature and herbs, but it's a weird combination of absinthe, liquorice and wood :D I'm glad it...

And when you have stress and trouble in other areas in life, you think about making soap when you go to bed. It makes you feel good :)

I have been thinking about gelling in general. I tried to read about why some people want to avoid it, but I'm not absolutely sure I got this right. I do understand that if there's sugar, honey, milk or something we don't want to burn, then hot gelling phase is unwanted. But if there's not? Why...

Thanks! :)

Neeners, thank's! I've been thinking about palm but some of that is hard to get around here if you want to use the environmentally friendly quality. Coconut is so hard to get from the corner shop and it's cheap :D Also, I was thinking of adding some shea butter so maybe that would compensate a...

Today I made some 'bambu & basil'-soap. Maybe I should call it B&B :D For some reason I still use quite a lot of coconut, even if I try to make it less drying. I just like the hardness and cleansing characteristics. I had about 40% coconut, 33% olive, 20% rapeseed and 7 % castor. Again I added...

I have to say something, even if I shouldn't :smile: First, I have to say that Jaccart789 is absolutely right about responsibility and safety. But then, sometimes I feel like this whole things is too serious. Of course it is, but my idea of soap making is very traditional and simple. It's...