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Wow! Thank you for the answer! Guess I will have to be really careful on the selection I do make

Oh I was expecting it to be more than 150-400EUR. Still, not cheap for a small homemade business/hobby. I have my own CP base recipe. I generally switch out the fregrances and colorants which I use at same percentages. Eight fragrances for me is more than enought. I like making colorful soaps...

Hi everyone, Do you need an assessment if you use ready made Melt and Pour soap base to make your own soaps in the EU? I use M&P for some embeds in my soaps. I would love some input from EU soapers on this matter

I am in the Netherlands. I have looked at the requirements but still can't put my finger on how much it would cost? I don't want to start the process and then run into budget issues.

Hi everyone, I have recently relocated to the Netherlands from outside EU. I would like to continue to sell my soap. I know there are EU regulations I need to meet and follow. Has anyone gone through this process recently? I ahve one recipe that I use. Frangrances and mica colors change. What...

I did just that. It has been a week now and no response from either one 😢 I was hoping someone would have some experience with this particular product so I may making the test batch. Especially UK based soapers. This brand does have a line specific for CP called Solo, but hubby thought it would...

Hello everyone! I hope you are doing amazing! Has anyone had experience with using colorants from a company called ZenColor? My hubby bought me their ZenColor 5 set that contains 5 colors and is intended for MP. I am wondering if it will survive the CP? It was so nice of him to try and surprise...

Hi everyone, Does anyone know why my colours are bleeding and the edges are not crisp and smooth? See around the cactus and the brown part? I am using 75%olive, 5% castor, 10%coconut, 10% shea for the oil mix, FOs mixed with kaolin, sugar in water part. I am devastated that my pretty pretty...

What is the hardest and long lasting soap you have ever made? This is just a “what-does-this-button-do” type of a question. I thinking to make a small batch of the hardest soap I possibly can just to see how it behaves in comparison to what SoapCalc gives me. Any tips/ideas?

I used 95% olive oil pomace and 5% castor. No EO or FO. I thought about it quite a lot. I am thinking I may have had a false trace coupled with a lack of patience 🤷‍♀️

I was at the store today and saw refined palm oil. It is packaged in a plastic bottle and it was in liquid form. Has anyone soaped with this type of oil? I have used palm oil in the past but it was solid state. 🤷‍♀️

Update: I got antsy and just had to try room temperature method for castille. Lye and oils were at 35-40C. Nope! It does not work! 😢 ended up with a caustic mess. Had to HP to save the batch. Got frustrated. My family will have to deal with some unsightly looking soap blobs in a little while 🤣

I want to make coffee soap next weekend. I looooooove coffee in soap 🥰 This time I want to skip the EOs. Is there a way to make the coffee scent come through in the final product? Not enough for the soap to have a decent scent. I am looking for just a little whiff so the final product is not...

I read on the internet about room temperature soaping method. This method is news to me. I have always done either CP or HP. Apparently you add lye water solution to your hard oils. The heat melts the oils. Once they are nice and melted - you add the soft oils. Has anyone tried this? How did it...

Has anyone tried using olive pulp in bar soap? I was just reading about moroccan soap which sounds just lovely but I dont have KOH just NaOH. I also dont have fresh olive pulp just the store bought canned olives. Has anyone tried using those? Any thoughts on this matter?

my horrible experience with EOs was a while ago. I make soap which I sell. For a while I made small batches, 2lbs a day. That was just the mold I had at the time. So I made one small batch per day to keep up. It was annoying but whatever. I love the smell of EOs and I was soaping in a well...

FOs can defenetly make you sick! If you ever plan on using EOs - you can expect the same thing. Ask me how I know ;) you can get away with not having a mask for small batches, but it is a must for larger batches. I look like Walter White in season 4. I respect the knowledge of doctors but I am...

All soap is prone to soap ash... From what I can figure its more related to the air than the soap. When I soap in my workshop in the city I almost always have soap ash. But when I do it at the workshop in the mountains ( we have a ranch really high up and secluded ) I almost never have ash. Its...

I am just going with confetty soap idea. I cant risk the heat with the EOs. And the last time I tried the ziplock bag method the bag melted. I will just play it safe with this one. Thanks guys !

i like apple pie for this... As the saying says "as American as apple pie" Apple pie is not an American invention but whatever, it works :D