Recent content by Leanna

Hello all, It's been a while since I've made any soap or lotion, but with the cold weather setting in, I thought I'd make another batch of lotion for personal use over the winter. The recipe I use is Olive Oil, Coconut Oil, Beeswax, and Shea Butter. I still have a lot of the ingredients...

Thanks :) I'll order some Castor Oil for next time, I need to make this batch tonight. I appreciate the help! Will let ya know how it comes out :)

I need some input. I have made 2 batches of CP soap up to this point, using Olive Oil, Coconut Oil, Palm Oil & Lye. My husband requested that I include Cocoa Butter in the next batch. I know that I need to use the lye calculator to input all my oils/fats to determine how much lye to use. I...

Those are beautiful!

Well I figured out what I did wrong last time, and made another batch today that came out perfectly! The problem was a reading comprehension fail. The instructions said to put the crockpot on the 4 hour setting (meaning high heat). I took this to mean heat the oil on high for 4 hours. I...

Thanks for the tip, I will check those out for sure :)

I didn't. I noticed actually reading through the comments on the tutorial I watched that a lot of people were telling her this isn't real castile soap. It's Olive Oil, Soybean Oil and Coconut Oil. Will play with the recipe, possibly eliminating the soybean (which I just bought vegetable oil...

I am quite new to soap making, but very eager to learn! So far I have made one batch of cold process soap, which I split with my sisters and mom and we all ordered scents and customized our trays (trays being disposable meatloaf pans lined with wax paper - I really do need to invest in some...

Haha, it's also possible I jumped the gun trying a liquid castile soap from scratch after doing one very basic Cold Process recipe. But it made so much soap I don't need anymore of that for a while!

Well, I'm still not entirely certain I'm doing this right, but I'm continuing to cook it until it turns transparent. It actually seems like it's starting to change around the edges where the heat is highest (doing this in a crock pot). I do think it was a mistake to take the whole unit outside...

The instructions had said it would take 15 minutes to come to liquid mashed potato consistency - trace, then through a taffy stage and finally to where it is for me now about 90 minutes later. I hope it recovers. This is the tutorial I watched...

Hi, I am new to soap making, and up to now have only made one batch of cold process bar soap. I was following a video tutorial I found online for making Liquid Castile Soap with KOH. I added the lye mixture to the oils and started blending, and everything seemed fine for about 5 minutes...