Recent content by pickles

Me neither. There's one on some other sites that will look like your antivirus popping up. If you don't close your browser immediately it'll download itself onto your computer and you won't be able to do anything. I got that one while browsing Photo.net and Google books. So I don't know which...

Oops, sorry about the picture. This should work. http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4062/462 ... 0f6c_o.jpg My mom and a friend of hers made a huge batch of soap when I was a kid. They used bacon grease, and all manner of meat fats they saved up. That soap stayed good for at least a couple of...

Thank you guys so much for all the encouragement and advice. I very much appreciate it. My daughter added the Basil because she said "Basil goes good with chicken." LOL She just crushed it between her palms the way you do when cooking with it. I purified the grease really well. I didn't...

I'll post pics after it goes rancid as an example of what not to use in soap :-)

No-one in my family is a vegetarian so we won't have any problem using it. I'm not making soap to try and sell it for heaven's sake. I can just see me trying to sell hamburger grease and chicken fat soap. Sounds like a skit for SNL Maybe I could market it through Kentucky Fried Chicken and...

Hamburger grease, chicken fat, canola and olive. I used what I had on hand at the time :-) My daughter added crushed dry basil. Molded 24 hours in an oiled Kleenex box. I'm so excited! How long should I wait to use it? http://farm5.static.flickr.com/4011/461 ... 37e2_o.jpg

Well, here is a pic of the Canola soap right after I cut it. I put it in the freezer for 1.5 hours to make it easier to get out of the mold. I'm wondering if I made a mistake doing that, because the soap started sweating after it warmed up some. Is this normal...

Oh dear. If it goes rancid that fast, who will I be able to talk into using it if it turns out as ugly as that bar of Canola soap in the link? LOL At least it's not a big batch. Yes, after all that stirring I'm convinced I do need a stick blender :-) I'll post pix after I unmold it and...

I decided I wanted to try a soap using 100% Canola because it's the cheapest veggie oil, and was curious to see how it would turn out. I got tired of stirring it and went to bed. Don't have a stick blender yet. It was 12 hours before I checked it again. There was a darker fluid on top...