Recent content by tricia819

I poured 5 loaves of soap on Saturday. I was hoping to get a piping set that day for my birthday (also Saturday) but, I didn't so, I had to wait and order my own. It is now Wednesday and I have a piping set but, the bases are well on their way to curing. I have not yet unmolded them (let alone...

I recently took a programming class and for my final project, I am creating a new soap calculator. **Disclaimers** It is NOT FINISHED and several things don't work right now but, if you calculate your recipe by weight (not percentage) it SHOULD be right but, please run your recipe through...

That is a great idea Earline! I might have to steal that one from you! :)

:bunny: In the US, we often measure our batch size in pounds and then oils in either ounces or grams. I was wondering if those of you in other countries (or even here is the US) ever have any use of kilograms in recipes?

No problem DeeAnna. I know enough to have picked out the problems they talked about and I am focused on the math here too. All is good! No need for embarrassment here. :)

I am going through a program called Launch Code which seeks to take people with little to no programming experience and eventually get them trained and placed in a programming job making (generally) much more money than they were before and thereby filling a lot of empty jobs and giving people a...

Response attempt #2 (first one was lost) SIGH! JavaScript with AngularJS as a framework and Firebase for my database. I was gonna try to recreate the functionality of Soap Calc but, clean up the site quite a bit but, then I found Soapee and realized that it had already been done...

Thanks all, for your suggestions! Sometimes, it all comes down to the right search terms... Now to go and try to learn all the mathiness (and keep learning all the programmyness). :D

I am taking a programming course and trying to create my own soap calculator for my final project. I will be able to figure out the programming part after a lot of this... :headbanging: but, I am having trouble finding a resource to explain the actual math behind the calculator... all my...

I have a standard base recipe and vary the color, scent and inclusions... Then, honestly, I take the finished soaps to my knit night and pass them around and ask people what they think they should be named (assuming something doesn't scream out to me right away). If they can't come up with an...

I JUST made a Peppermint/Lavender soap 2 weeks ago. I love the fragrance combo. I DID go easy on the Peppermint for the reasons stated above. That said, I do enjoy the combo and would encourage you to try it.

Thanks for this tip! I went right over there and spent too much and bought the last they had of two different fragrances!! One was something that a customer has been asking me to make for the last month or more! Love this forum! :)

I live in Kansas City where ZumBar is headquartered and they have an interesting use for their shreds... They gather them together and put them in little muslin bags and sell them as sachets! I love the confetti soap but, if I ever get tired of it, I know that I have another use for my shreds...

I just did my first master batch of Lye Water. I mixed it in a stainless steel pot (like they have soup in at your local buffet - thrift store find) and let it heat up and cool in the metal pot. AFTER it cooled, I poured it into a #1 plastic container that I saw a soaper use on YouTube. I found...

Re-Namer In addition to soaping, I have a fiber arts group that I run every Monday night (The Knotty Knitters, Happy Hookers and Salacious Spinsters). I always make at least one sample soap in a soufflé cup and take them in to my group the Monday after I make them. I then pass the sample bars...