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    Reusing silicone for food?

    Good to know, since I bought a bunch of silicone molds for the purpose of soap making, but ended up not liking how the mold would bow in certain places, and this drove me nuts. I've used these molds only once or twice, and would hate to discard of them simply because I didn't like them for...
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    What soapy thing have you done today?

    I made castile soap and lavender soap, and I'm thrilled! Not gonna be easy to let the castile cure for a year, though.
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    The word association game

    milk
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    The word association game

    Probability
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    Sweet mistake. Can I fix this?

    Thank you all for your help. It's good to know this isn't an unsafe soap. I think I'll go with PinkCupcake's suggestion to use syrup. Or maybe I'll just continue to stick with honey. I've tried using the soap, and it has a lovely exfoliating feel to it, and the worst part about this...
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    Sweet mistake. Can I fix this?

    I made soap a few days ago, adding some sugar to boost bubbles. Usually, I use honey because it seems a lot more wholesome to me - but just this once, I thought I'd be really cool and use sugar. And then the next day, I used some of the crumbs for washing my hands. Wow, so gritty! And now my...
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    Bacon grease

    I am looking to do the same thing, too. I've googled beer and bacon grease soap, and have discovered that some say it smells like pretzels! You're not looking to use beer too, are you?
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    Long SaffireBlue order delays

    The first order I placed with SB took a month to arrive. Subsequent orders have been better, taking 5-8 business days to ship. SB's only redeeming quality is their super low prices on almost everything compared to other suppliers, so that's why I stick with them. I am not making soap to...
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    Any writers out there?

    I'm no poet, so forgive the simplicity of my haiku. oils, lye and fragrance blend, saponify and cure fragrant clean showers
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    Any writers out there?

    I too, started a novel a few years ago, and while I still work on it regularly, I'm nowhere near finishing. Part of what stops me from just finishing it, are the discouraging advice out there that a first novel has to be 100,000 or fewer words. My novel looks like it will be duology at...
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    How is this for a basic shampoo bar recipe?

    avocado 30% castor 10% rice bran 40% shea butter 10% hemp 10% superfat 5% hardness 22 cleansing 0 conditioning 73 bubbly 9 creamy 31 iodine 101 INS 83
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    How is this for a basic shampoo bar recipe?

    I've been no 'poo since November 2013, so I'm not sure how long of a transition period I would need. I followed the suggestions in this thread a few months ago to make my bars, but I made them 5% superfatted, so I'll make the next batch 3% and see what happens. :-) Thanks for the suggestion. I...
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    How is this for a basic shampoo bar recipe?

    I've made shampoo bars twice (two different recipes) now, and have found them to leave a waxy residue on the length of my hair. My roots end up very clean, but the length gets very waxy, and more I wash it, the waxier it gets. Does anybody else have this issue with shampoo bars?
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    Card Making

    I can see it before me, a picket fence in the background, flowers in the middle layer, and a little girl walking her puppy in the front. Or any kind of other set of layers. You could do almost anything with it. :)
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    Card Making

    a stampscapes piece. I hope this shows up, as it's been a long time since I posted pics of my work. a chichibouli fairy, image from Stamping Bella. another Stampscapes card.
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