Recent content by Mississippi soapmaker

If these are wasps, you are probably going to get stung badly. I was weeding a flower bed and stumbled upon a ground wasp nest and was stung twice on my foot (three weeks before my first marathon). My foot was swollen so bad I could not wear shoes for several days.

If you are sure these are bees, they are probably carpenter bees. It would be very unusual for yellowjackets not to sting you if you are working close to them. Carpenter bees can be eliminated by using a desiccant in a little bellows. You should be able to find their perfect little hole that...

I'm in Mississippi but would possibly travel. Can you send photos? Thanks!

I use these and really like them. You can use them as a loofah once the soap is used up.

How do you get soap liquid enough in HP soap? Mine always has the consistency of vaseline and is impossible to work with. I have gone to only doing CP soap now.

I like the trio idea as well as the embedded heart idea. I frankly would not stress too much about getting the colors to match exactly. People are there for the wedding and, while they may notice if you had bright neon green, as long as they are in the right color family, are probably not...

I gave up a long time ago on HP soap as the consistency always was like vaseline and it frankly was not attractive. I read somewhere that someone had a solution to this, to make it liquid enough to pour. How do you do that?

I have a five rack sweater drying rack and sometimes use the fan on it to help liquid evaporate so I can move them to another rack. Don't know if it helps cure.

I know this is an old thread, but do you know if the solid pieces are 1 x 4, or 2 x 4? Thanks.

How much citric acid do you use? Thanks.

I bought my trays off ebay. Keep looking!

Can you describe how you make the boxes from cardstock? Thanks.