Recent content by Shirley-D

I'm late to this (been out of town) but sending my hopes and prayers for your hubby and son. Too much to happen in a family. Hope you are holding up okay.:eek:

How awful for you! I hope your hubby can cook. Speedy recovery to you.

My first attempts at making soap were too embarrassing to think about. I learned a lot from forum members :nodding: so don't give up.

Oh, and while I'm thinking about it, what SAP value did you use for the hydrogenated soy? I suggest if you want to use it, go to this forum's lye calculator and put in a custom oil with these numbers: Sap KOH0.19 Sap NaOH0.135 Iodine50 INS152 Lauric0 Myristic0 Palmitic10 Stearic32 Ricinoleic0...

You have some expensive ingredients there. Don't toss, wait. Things change over time. You can always toss them out in a few weeks. Set them aside and pick another recipe.

Yup! That's the one I use with great success. So, the problem is probably not the hydrogenated soy oil. I'm looking at the jojoba oil with suspicion. You know it is a wax and can barely be saponified. Plus, it is very expensive. A tablespoon would be enough to give some emollience.

WOW! Knocked my socks off! Great work. Gives me inspiration.

By the way, I found a big bag of reels of florist's ribbon in Goodwill (charity shop). My lucky day! I will never have to buy ribbon again. I wrap a band of ribbon around the soap and use transparent labels from OnLineLabels.com. Once you buy something from them you get a code to use their...

Many thanks soapy friends for your encouragement :)

@Zany_in_CO and @KiwiMoose, Patience? What is that? Never heard of it. Ha Ha! OK, here are some of my "Plain Janes" but I dress them up and give them cute names. Nobody has asked: Where are the swirls and embeds and high peaks? LOL!

Okay soapers, pictures to come soon. Kinda embarrassed that I'm still making plain, one color soap after 16 months of soapmaking. However, I am happy and confident of my good plain soaps. I did one swirl and some layers early on, but my recipe (palm-free, vegan) was not where I wanted it--too...

Done! Unmolded and cut this morning. Doing a happy dance. Thanks! :dance:

Thanks @Ford and @AliOop :dance:

My husband made me a nice big, double wide mold 🥰. Using my normal tried and true recipe, I tested it yesterday. I CPOP'd it. The soap looks fine and feels firm enough to unmold, but it is still hot. I usually can unmold by now. But I am guessing it is hot due to the extra mass of the double...

Still, that is beautiful looking soap. Good save!