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Hi All! Yesterday, I've made a mint soap, just a little batch. For the first time I've used spirulina as a top swirl colorant, and I got rather ugly yellowish bordering... Is that normal? Spirulina does that? Will it go any further, and turn yellow the whole surface of my soap? Do u think it...

Hi Guys :) I’m planning to make beer soap next week. I wondered if you may have any tips and suggestions about it. The smell, oils which works best, what not to do ;) – write all what cross your mind! I may just add, that I would like to dedicate that soap to gentlemens, add beer – of course...

Hi Guys! I want to show you my soap cutter I’ve made myself! I’m so happy with how it turn out :) What do u think? Just in a case you think is too big – I wanted it BIG! Is 65 cm on 35 cm – so is like 25.5’’ on 13.7’’ :D When I’ll actually use it for the first time I will know what and where is...

Hi Guys, I have little problem with English, :roll: if u could help me on that one I would be really grateful…. I apply for some service, and got reply from one of the people from costumer service that:" ……. This will cover your products as a new starter capped at 20." Now I’m not sure if I...

Hi All :) After I've read the thread about salt water soap, I wanted to make it so badly, that by making it right away I got late to meeting in car showroom to finalize out car purchase ;) Worth saying that I had all needed cash ;) So, that my solesoap. I must say that I like the swirl but...

Hi Guys! It is my last soap, nothing special i guess, just wanted to share :) Is orange and cinnamon scented soap. Lots of shea, lots of OO! I hope it will be nice one ;)

Hi All :) I just cleaned up my kitchen shelfs and discovered few oils that are already off :\ Big shame, but I wonder if I could do something with them, use them somehow… Maybe as a candle-kind of thing…? Any ideas? :)

Recently I have unusual glycerin problem with my soaps. In past few weeks I’ve send out some samples of my soaps to bloggers around my country. They all been very happy about it and I got excellent opinions, BUT… But I can see in commentaries under the articles about my little bars, that some...

Hi there! I’m trying to formulate a recipe with hemp oil. And the most suitable for me, according to soap calc would be if I would add 5% of hemp oil. Otherwise all numbers are messed up badly – long story! Never mind :) The main question is, do you think that it makes sense to use such a small...

Hi All :) Since few days I struggle to find out how to label my soaps properly. So I'm ok with label names for oils that been saponified, but I have problem with finding info how to list EO. Doeas any one has come across such information?

Hi All! I recently discovered that some of my soaps sweat after some time :\ Is that possible my SF is too high? As the sweat is oily, so I think is oils running out. I SF at 8%

Hi All! I just cut my first avocado soap! I know is nothing special, but I’m very pleased with result – until now of course! I will see how it will behave with the time, if smell will stay as nice as now and so on :)

Hi All! I’m planning to make avocado and aloe soap. My first question is, do you prefer avocado juice, or gel – and why :) I’ve done some research and I’ve learned that juice is for internal use, and gel is for external use, like skin products. So what do you think? Second, do you know the...

Hi All! Recently I’ve bought a beautiful slab mold with dividers! It was quite expensive, as the mold was customized to my own sizes of bars. I could not wait until I get it, and make my soap with it, as you can imagine ;) But when I made soap and unmolded it, it was one big disappointment...

Ok Guys! Now I will ask, probably the silliest, question in the forum history – but feel little bit confused! I’ve bought Babbasu oil – I love the smell of it, color, and I think I would love it in soap! And I went through the label, all certificates it has, and then I saw certificate “White...

Hi All! I just want to ask you, what do you think about Camellia oil in soap? I wanted to make Castile, but then I decided to add something – maybe Camellia? What do you think? Will it be suitable for babies too?

I would love to make me chocolate soap, or coffee soap, with natural scent, but the only available out there are the Absolutes. Did any of you ever try Absolute in soaps? I wonder if they would work, and how?

How to easily present you beautiful soaps professional way :) http://www.viauphotography.com/blog/post/2011/02/01/Tutorial-Studio-Quality-Product-Photography-With-a-$12-Set-Up!.aspx Enjoy!

Hi All! So I’m just talking here, and you may think that my soaps are just my “imaginary friends” ;) So here there are :) I use only plant colors, clays and oil natural colors to get the color I want so it will never be as fancy as beautiful mica swirls, but I’m not bothered by that at all :)...

Hi All! So, finally I managed to get the color I quite like using infused olive oil with alkanet root :) I have picture with my previous lavender batch - witch was greenish since beginning, as I couldn’t figure out how much infused OO I should use. So this time I used 20% (of total oil weigh)...