Recent content by MrJuggles

Thanks for all your input. The ratio of Mica worked brilliantly, I'm very happy with the colour. I messed up though and totally forgot about your advice about the stick blender, so it got to trace too fast. It's fine I've now got eight little black silcone muffin molds of soap and in the end...

What would you mean by more liquid? 6be recipe for 1lb soap asks for 172 grams of water. Would half again keep it runnier? Also would I still give it a whizz with the blender to ensure its mixed, but just for a few seconds or so, to ensure its all mixed togethe? I certainly don't have any...

Will that make it runnier to pour into the hole, but letting it still set (just taking a little longer to firm up enough) Thank you for your reply, I've just got one or two probably very silly questions. When you say "lengthen the time to unmold" do you mean the amount of time until you can...

I've made several batches of simple soaps over the years, so much so I'm quite comfortable with the process. I really don't try anything fancy and just melt a few fats/butters, add the essential oil, lye, mix and pour into molds. It's served me well as I'm really not trying anything too...

cabbage patch dolls, they were ugly weren't they. I've grown to love my Ugly soap now, I'm going to miss it when it's gone.

Yeh that sounds about right, the building up of the confidence. Don't get me wrong I have no intention of doing anything like selling my stuff at the moment (if at all) seeing as effectively I'm about 4 months into this and very much playing with it. It was more about making the soap as a...

That's just the way the bar laid. It saponified a little thicker in the end so when I poured it in you got the raised bit in the middle. In truth I'd started the whole process when I realised my thermometers were broken (both) so I had to guess and really expected a ruined batch. The thing in...

It started with a conversation I was having with a friend when I was talking about my foray into soap making. We talked about whether you could make a soap bar out of just lard, the concept made us laugh. Then after asking around on here people talked about making soap just out of Olive Oil...

I love the idea of single oil (only because it will be easy at the moment) the link is spot on, thanks for that new12soap. I did have a crack at the Olive Oil only and I must say I'm in love with it and may just get stuck on it for a while because it looks so good. It may just be my safe base...

It depends on the man and what your relationship to him is, but I've done a few of these for friends by myself. http://www.notonthehighstreet.com/betsy ... -you-print You can do it on a PDF maker or even a word programme and save it as a PDF, you can then get it printed off at a local shop for...

I'm only tinkering with soap making at the moment, but really really enjoying it. The other day I made pure olive oil soap and I am really really impressed with, so much so my Facebook stream has been full of lots of soaping updates by me. Then I got a message off an old school friend asking...

haha, I'm not that precious yet about thread hijacking. Whilst you were all busy taling eggs I went off and did a batch of Olive Oll soap that I am most proud of and I need to take piccies of. Please feel free to digrees because my question was more about a one fat only (fat meaning oil too) soap.

My wife and I foster. We foster young mums to be from chaotic backgrounds, the stories we could tell would make you cry. Whilst they are with us we complete mother and baby assessments (whilst we also have two children of our own 12 and 3) So we get the girls about three weeks before they...

Ooo, so I can get a nice little stash of soap done there. That is ace. It really is funny, there's a lot of stuff happening in my life which makes it stressful, tense and distracting and all that is on my mind is my next batch. It's becoming my little Zen garden.

Hi everyone I just bought some fragrence oil in, well my wife did as I'm happy to have them scent free, and I was wondering on what portions to use. We have 200ml of Brown sugar and fig, and we got a free sample of spiced mulberry of 10ml. As the free sample is such a small amount I wondered...