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I had no idea about the need to amend NaOH when using lemon / lime juice. That was a great article - thank you

wow - how on earth do you know all that? Great info! The Italy one interests me. . My boss bought in some 'Hemp and blah blah luxurious' bars of soap. Hemp oil is legal to use here. Her business runs through shopify. About 6 months into things we got a 'cease selling' notice from shopify or...

IKR? Welcome :)

Oooh I just realised the cuts go right to the bottom! Cleverrrr

Looks delicious :) How big is your mold John? I like how you have cuts for measurement marks. I'm getting a mold made atm so might suggest he adds those

So freaking beautiful!!!

Just so darn beautiful!

Exciting!

Although my skillbase in in Maori Medicine - I did use Mustard Oil in a salve. (Pain relief / warming). My issue - and those who used it - was never about skin irritation but rather the smell :)

They look almost edible!! Lovely :)

Just rechecked the supplier's recomendations / reviews and NOW they're saying 'not recommended for CP' and I see someone else has posted a 'pink' issue

In M&P I also got pink - an awful slurry pink. M&P isn't really my thing but I thought I'd give it a whirl and because of what happened I thought there must be something about the M&P process I'm not aware of so just kind of let it be. Then a while later I did a CP and got pink instead of blue...

IKR!? I checked the pack and the suppliers info on it and it is def for soap-making. In fact I've used it 3 times now and each time I got pinky tones instead of blue. (M&P, and 2 CP's) - each time I thought I'd done something wrong but I just think it must be faulty in some way now. I guess 3...

I was making a batch for a friend and wanted to do a seascape..sand on the bottom, seaweed, then a dark blue for the sea, lighter blue for the sky and some golden sparkles on top. Everything that could go wrong went wrong with this batch. I managed to spill my Caustic soda when measuring it, I...

Oooh that is great news. I zested a couple of kilos of lemons and couldn't think what to do with the fruit so froze some of the juice I squeezed. Handy!