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I'm posting this for my mom, she makes soap and recently she asked me what the white spots are and honestly.. I've never encountered white spots like this so I have no clue what it is or could be. I don't know her recipe but the soap is a coconut, palm, shea and avocado in full water with 3%...

Lately I've been playing around with HP and I'm loving it. My goal is to make my HP look more appealing but gosh it just feels so good that it doesn't really matter does it? Let's show some HP love. Here my attempt at a pencil line in hp... It looks like a rock with gold.

I'm an Essential Oil lover but on occasion I like to play with a few Fragrance Oils and I just came across one that I've fallen in love with. <Kicking myself for not buying a bigger bottle> I did help it just a bit by mixing another fragrance oil. It's called Yeah Mon! I got it from EBB. I...

Hello Everyone. I've seen this type of mold used and cutter but I cannot find it. I need about 5 of these molds.

Hello. I've struggled to find a good vibrant purple that doesn't make my soap batter smell like ammonia or turn to a completely different color (usually very very ugly color). I've used: TKB- Magic Violet (morphed to an ugly dirty gray color) An Ultramarine Violet with a red undertone...

Hello everyone. Keeping notes on recipes is incredibly important when your learning how to make soap as well as keeping track of your work if your a seasoned soap maker. It's in good practice to take detailed notes on every batch good and bad. To start, if your not familiar with...

I'm always looking around to get ideas on organizing my soap supplies and when I came across Ellen Aprils Soap Room I nearly went to heaven. I would never leave this room:roll: Look at this beauty....

Hello everyone. Recently I changed my base recipe to include a low amount of castor oil in my soap bars. Recently I've broken out in red itchy bumps all over my body. I was wondering if it was stress or something new that I've been using but the only thing new is the addition of castor oil...

I made 3 batches of soap a couple of days ago. I unmolded yesterday after 24 hours of being in the mold. 33% grapeseed 33% Shea butter 20% PKO 13% CO76• Super fat at 5% Water 33% Oil temps 97 (all 3 batches) Lye water temps 98 (all 3 batches) 1 and 3rd loafs came out fine 2nd loaf came out...

I tried to do a Nag Champa soap last night and instead of blending the oils like I normally do, my wonderful brain said, heyyy I have Nag Champa Oil... wonder if I can use that. I was at a light trace and as soon as I put my oil in BAM! Curds! Separation!!! It was going to be beautiful...

So, I've been making my soaps and I remembered a couple of weeks back I was going to try the whole master batching thing and so I pre-measured my oils (CO, PKO, GPO, and Shea Butter). I put stickies on each bin because one was short of one oil of which I taught "eh, I'll get it later". This was...

I've looked and looked and these are the drying racks I want. I found a lady on youtube that uses them but she refused to give me the make and model. I didn't push for info so I kept looking. It's been 8 weeks now i see a company that uses them, problem every time I try to contact them they are...

Hello everyone! My name is Marisa and this past November 2013 my hubby (TJ) and I started making our own soaps. We've fallen in love with soap making. We've had some amazing batches and a couple of failures so we are hoping this forum helps us improve our soap making skills and possibly meet...

Hello everyone. I'm a newbie here and also a newbie at making soaps. I've been relying on summerbeemeadow's lye calculator and recipe resize and the website seems to be down the past couple of days. I have no clue on how to calculate lye/water/oils etc by hand. I've tried other soap...