Recent content by MsBrenda

No, nothing at all with HPCP soap. Just scrape it off.

I have posted a tutorial for crock pot HP soap on my web site. I use the WARM setting on the crock and get no volcano at all. I cook the soap on warm 2 hours. I add goatmilk when my soap is done cooking. Here is the url to my tutorial. If you have any questions, email or call me...

I use cucumber puree with my crockpot soap 2 different ways. 1. I sub water with cucumber for the lye solution and it turns brown. 2. I add the puree after saponification and it's light green. I made these soaps last summer with fresh cuc's from my garden and I'm saving one bar of each...

Hi Blue Hill, mind if I ask what you used for the cinnamon? Was it an EO or FO? Did you use cinnamon powder? Brenda

The American Cancer website recommends just plain milk asap to help replace the proteins burnt out of your skin and cool the burn. I tried it and it works. I put milk in a bowl, took an old hand towel, got it soaked with milk and carefully applied it on my burnt skin. It was dipping a little so...

Coming from all you experienced and professional soap makers, I am soaking up all the compliments! Just don't give me a big head! Thanks everybody!

I have been thinking about this to. But I do HP and noticed if the soap cools off to much or is to thick when you pour, it don't even stick to it's self!

Does anyone know if there is a soap calc designed for HP soap making? So far all the calcs seem to be for CP for the lye/water ratoi. I usually take the lye amount recommended and round it off to the nearest .50. Take that number x 4 and that will be my water amount to mix the lye...

Carebear, thats it! You said it real simple. I add a lot of water with HP. The soap takes a couple weeks to firm up. I'm not sure yet how much shrinkage I'm going to have with these round bars. I made them Tuesday, the 30th. They weighed 3.80 after cutting. Just weighed one right now and...

The recipe I used is listed on my web site with a tutorial. I used this same recipe but added natural colorants mixed with avocado oil instead of cream for super fatting. You'll notice in this recipe the water amount is 16 oz water to 4.10 oz lye and 30 oz oils. That is no typo. If you read all...

Yes, the dowel is in the paper towel tube. It's held so the disk is right at the top of the soap. You have to pull that tube up all the way out of the can so the dowel should be longer than the tube.

Sorry for the cross post. I had posted this info on another forum. Here is an idea I had to color HP soap. I think this method would work for CP as well. I took an empty can from Pringles Potato chips and cut a circle out of the lid. I use a tube from an empty roll of paper towel as my guide...

That awful ammonia smell is gone now and the soap IS so awesome! You guy's were right, the smell will disappear within about a week. I also used heavy whipping cream in a batch yesterday, in HP soap, I added the cream after cooking, also put silk fibers in the lye solution. I love the...

Thanks Dagmar, I think my trays got adopted. But checking your local wholesaler is a really good idea.

I do the HP method for soap making. I wanted to try yogurt soap. I put a heaping table spoon in with my oils and cooked. I could detect a faint ammonia smell while cooking. After the cook I added 2 more heaping table spoons I also added some fragrance. I let the soap cool and when I went to cut...