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Thanks!!! I'll check that out. Shelly

Can you tell me where in the forum the "crock pot hot process" tutorial is posted? Would like to read up on it. Thanks Shelly

Sorry, I would think those recipes would be well kept secrets by Young Living. There is another company - very high quality and I personally think better quality than Young Living - Native American Nutritionals. They sell lots of wonderful single and blends of essential oils. Because of the...

So...what does one use for EO's. I discovered in trying to weigh them, no grams register for the longest time then when I finally get a reading, I'm pretty sure it isn't correct. It weighs the heavier items wonderfully though.

weight of card stock Woodi - Do you happen to know the weight of the card stock. I have 110# card stock but it feels way to heavy to use for wrapping soap so I haven't even tried to print something on it. I saw a 65# at the office supply store but nothing much else between that and the 25#...

Hi I made the following soap and it took about 8 weeks to get fully firm. 21 oz. Olive Oil 10.5 oz. Coconut Oil 12 oz water 4.5 oz lye I also could not get it out of the pvc pipe mold and my husband finally cut the length of the pipe to loosen it enough to get the soap out. It was...

Yeah, I am pretty clueless too. I added nothing other than what I listed. I used a stainless steel pot to mix in and can't remember what I used to mix up the lye - either stainless or thick plastic bowl. I used stainless steel spoon - it is old and somewhat pitted. My mold was a pvc pipe...

rancid smell - Here is the soap recipe I formulated where it smelled rancid shortly after curing: Sweet Almond Oil 5 oz Palm Oil 8 oz Shea butter 3.6 oz Olive Oil 11.3 oz Coconut oil 6 oz. lye 4.6 oz ( 5% discount) water 13 oz The INS value calculated to 141. I thought my mixture...

Thanks all for your input. To answer some of the questions....I am looking for expeller pressed in the event some of the oils are solvent extracted - just don't want the solvent chemicals in what I am putting on my skin. There is a soap supplier in Sacramento and I have gone there once to pick...

I am in a quandry. I am new to soap making. The thing that drove me to it was the lack of availability of good, pure (without fragrances, detergent, and other chemicals) soaps. So, I have made three batches with good results (save for that one batch that smelled rancid shortly after curing)...