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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...

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...

I was desperate to soap this weekend, but still waiting on my restock order to arrive. So I dipped into my personal supply of cooking/eating oils and made a small ~30 oz batch just to help myself last until this weekend when I can go soap-crazy. Didn't have any good pigments or dyes on hand so I...

So this summer I've been having some "problems" with soda ash on my soaps, but it's been the rainiest and most humid spring and summer the state has seen in a long time, so I haven't been stressing about it too much. But on my most recent batch, I noticed a strange ring and a strange pattern...

Hi everyone! Got started making (castile) soap about a year ago and have been going at it ever since! I am getting married in October and decided to make soap as the take-away gift for the guests (50-60 of them) and decided to join up here! I know I'll have a lot of questions and work to do to...