Recent content by origo

I searched the forum for some info on this but couldn't find much. So what I want to achieve: - Have soaps that don't have orange spots after some time and stay at least 1 year before they go bad. (cold process) On a search on google I found: Use Rosemary EO in it, since it's a natural...

Thank you for your kind words (throw that away) and deep instructions (click the tutorials). My heart didn't let me throw that stuff, I'll keep it as my first soap-ish mixture, put it in a nice place, and look at it from time to time to remind myself the long road that I've walked. now I...

Ok so if you add too much lye then the soap will burn your hands when you use it. But if you add too much oils then shouldn't the lye combine with SOME of the oils then you drain the excessive oils and voila you have good soap ?

Ooooo hold your horses. Thank you for writing 3 pages of "throw that crap" :). Yes, I'm a real person. Yes I google'd "bad homemade soap" and found that picture that matches mine. What's wrong in that ?!?! So what I did yesterday: I put all that "bad soap" to heat, until it boiled a...

I have no idea. I added some lye, but it didn't heat with the water.... so I added some more :D, still didn't heat. so I said...**** it, and I made it without heated lye. Recipe: lye - unknown peanut oil (one small plastic cans) olive oil (3 small platic cans) some essential oils (guess...

Hello, After looking at the beginners thread I see that I made my soap with ricing.They are not solid, and they have a bad mixed pudding look. I calculated wrong the oils :) anyway, is there a way to SAVE them, or should I just throw them in the toilet ? :( ....somehow of re-heating, adding...