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I hear ya - I want so much to love making non-water soaps, but every time that smell comes through, I get the urge to just chuck them in the bin. I'm going to let them go for several months and see if it calms down at all. Yes, I felt almost immediately with the coffee that not cooling it...

For whatever reason, I only recently got into non-water soaps. I made a coffee soap and a beer soap, and I'm having the same problem with each. They smell baaaaddd! Like scorched chemicals. The first (coffee soap) I did not chill the coffee whatsoever (and used 100% coffee as the liquid). In...

The square (pencil line) soap I used the 10" BB silicone mold. For the round soaps I used the BB cylindrical silicone molds - before I bought those, I was using PVC pipes, so it feels luxurious to have so little effort to get the soap out now! Same here. I think I would like it on soaps that...

Yesterday I made a Pumpkin Beer soap - I used a seasonal pumpkin ale and canned pumpkin. (I actually boiled down 2 bottles of beer to 2 ounces of "beer syrup", 3 ounces of canned pumpkin, and made up the rest of the volume with ice cubes. For fragrance I just got rid of what I had leftovers of...

Your display is beautiful, and congrats on your first fair! May there be many more successful ones to come :)

Obsidian, they do have tracking numbers: when you're logged in to your account and you find your order, to the right of it should be a button for details or something like that. When they ship they should update that page with a tracking number. Also at the top of the main page they say what...

People largely inspire my soaps, actually :) Whether they are real or characters from books or movies, I often imagine what a person would smell like and all of a sudden soap starts happening in my head! Sent from my iPhone using Soap Making

My worst soap fail was accidentally swallowing some just-mixed soap. I have actually partially repressed the memory and neither my husband nor I can remember why straws were involved, but they were. I hope we were also drunk because mouth syphoning was involved too. I'm sure you can tell where...

On another forum that I participate in, they organize group orders fairly often to save on shipping from overseas - I'm sure we could arrange something similar. We could make a separate thread for people interested in ordering with one person designated the organizer. When someone is interested...

Hi Anna, and welcome! There's a soap company near where I live called Anders Natural Soap Company and they make a dog shampoo bar that I use on my Papillon. I'll look at it when I'm at home tonight or tomorrow and let you know if I can figure out what's in it.

Hooray, and oh no!! Glad the soap is out, one way or another! I'm switching my next batch to a BB cylindrical silicone mold and SO ready to kiss stubborn mold problems goodbye! Sent from my iPhone using Soap Making

Oh wow! Quite green when mixed with the oil :) Sent from my iPhone using Soap Making

That would be great! I'd love to buy less than a gallon, if we can get a few people together for it. Sent from my iPhone using Soap Making

Looks fantastic for a first try! I think it looks mysterious. :)

The swirl in the dark soap is lovely!

Eeee, look at those colors! Is that green clay you're using next?

Has the eagle landed, elmtree? :-P

How pretty! It looks just like a big snow drift, and I bet it smells wonderful!

This is the one I have (for making food) - the inside is removable stoneware, so it's pretty easy to clean, just a bit heavy. http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00418481O/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

It's all true! :) Welcome to the addiction.