Recent content by mandy318

Thank you! Good to know. I have never stopped gel before...over a year soaping and still learning!

I'm coming back to this thread to ask a question. My goat's milk soap is still too soft in the mold to cut. With the exception of replacing my water with goat's milk, this is a recipe I've made several times and cut in 24 hours. I did put these loaves in the freezer to prevent gelling for 24...

Great...thanks for sharing the soap wisdom! I'll skip the sieve next batch!

Really? I thought using a sieve was standard operating procedure for milk soaps to prevent curds in the oils?

Thanks! The next 6 weeks will be torture!

I haven't posted here in quite some time. I started soaping maybe about 18 months ago. I went crazy and made lots of small batches. This year I'm focusing on Christmas gifts and it's exciting to choose which recipes I liked best last year and focus on reproducing them. But I can't resist...

Wow...I like those. I bet that hurt a bit!

Haha! I've been on a quest for mythic hero plants since two summers ago when my husband and I moved into the house we live in now and I discovered how **** HUNGRY the deer around here are! I only planted flowers according to how much I liked them and I ended up planting a lovely deer salad bar...

I started soaping in 2015 and I've settled on some basic base recipes that I like and people to whom I've gifted soap tell me they like. When I was just beginning I discovered that if really helps me to have a plan--without one I started trying no less than 4 new ingredients/techniques with...

Wow. Beautiful!

Thanks for the kind words! In my professional life I'm in marketing..I hope I bring a little of that knowledge to bear in labeling. If even not for sale, just for appeal. These are going into gift baskets along with some bath bombs I made and some homemade canned goodies my sister made (sweet...

This was a giant pain in the rear. I officially hate labeling. BUT--thank you all for your suggestions...it made the process that much less sucky! I ended up using resume paper because I was running out of time and just had to find something that would work. :)

I'm cutting labels with my rotary cutter today. It's working much better. :)

Really cool. I'm about 8 months into my soap journey and I cannot fathom taking on a project like this. Amazing work.

Do you cut the craft paper to fit in your printer? I'm cutting from a roll the size of a roll of wrapping paper...