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Hey everyone, i had a question on my mind and wanted to ask on my favorite soap making forum. I have two big boxes of different oils i use for cosmetics and have little room to store in my house currently. We have a outdoor shed and am thinking of storing it in there, but was worried if my oils...

Hey everyone its been a while.:wave: Im back with a question. Ive made a few lipbalms but wanted to make a new kind using a resin i made from coffee and chocolate beans. I melted my oils and beeswax and added my resin but my resin did not want to melt and incorportae into the base lip balm...

Hello everyone,just wanted to share some pictures of my goats milk soap that I had been waiting to make for months. Unfortunately my raw milk supplier was not in stock for the winter and just now I was able to make a purchase. This was the last soap I had planed to make so now I caught up...

Today was a perfect night for me to make some soap, I have been wanting to put my neem to good use to I made a neem and ginger soap. I used 21% neem with a blend of other plant oils making up the remaining 79%. I used 3tbs of ginger powder to the whole batch and 3oz essential oils. I super...

Hey guys, just wanted to start a topic here cause im trying to keep things moving forward and i have no intension of giving up. I am trying to start my own website, and picked some web hosting site called weebly. Basically my website url look like this tjhealthandbeauty.weebly.com. I would...

Hey everyone, money is going down yet i still seem to be ordering essential oils and goods for making more soap, Who am i? :-P So im going to be making a neem and ginger and with with little i know from reading and seeing. I just had a simple quick question. Ive heard the smell can be...

Hey everyone so i made a transparent soap a few days ago i had a blast of a time literally. I was making my soap witch was more a hot process and while mixing my soap with the lye i had a volcano eruption, half of my soap poured out of the pot and into another pot we were frying fish in, so i...

Lol, yes i know what a odd title for my thread. Well i am a crystal fan and have been collecting and enjoying my crystals for many years. I Know there is not much nutrition in them but i have some powdered crystal/minerals and im thinking of adding it to one of my soaps in the future. I am...

:wave:Hello my wonderful soapers alike, I am going to be making some clear soap aka glycerin soap or translucent soap. It is a bit hard to find what your looking for in a search term since the term for soap has many names it goes by and some people dont even call it by that. So i am turning here...

Hey everyone ive had something on my mind and wanted to bring it up here in general chat. Ive given some soap bars before and have got two takes on it. One take is that the person would only use the soap to wash there hands. The second take would be they use the soap in the shower on the...

Hey guys just wanted to bounce something all of you and see what you all thought. I wanted to make some salt soap bars after reading some treads and seeing some awesome pictures. So i decided i would give it a try, 2 days ago i made my salty soap bars with some trouble. The loaf of soap was...

Hey everyone just your friendly soap maker here, Got a question for the soap that will most likely be made tonight. It will be a real delight it i can pull it off correctly and i wanted to see what experience you ladys and gentlemen have and what your opinions are. This soap in the works is the...

Hey guys So ive been working on my cover picture for my "Bentonite & Charcoal Soap". This is what i cam up with. I am no expert on design but i was hoping to get some feedback see if theres anything that i can improve to make it better, or just let me know if theres something you personally...

Hey everyone so. I couldn't wait one or two more days to make my rosin soap so I decided I would do it today. I calculated everything using the soap calculator and used the same recipe as my last just a slight variation. I used pine rosin slightly different from pine tar, I'm hoping someone has...

Hey everyone so, lol the title says it all in a bit of a metaphor. You see the other day i was making my soap and i had a blast doing it, but after i was all done i knew i still had another task at hand, and that was the dishes. (dishes are my nightmare) :crazy: Anyway's i washed it, and...

I was so excited that I ended up measuring out all my oils into the cooking pot, It looks amazing. The colors and different density's of oil. At first all the oils seem very similar but under a more closer look they are all very different, soo cool, Since I only worked with Castile soap this is...

Hey everyone, i just wanted to share a very interesting read and find on the internet and i wanted to share it with the community here for our convenient's and ease of mind. All credit goes to Pociecha and G. Bourbonais and this information was found on...

Hey guys and girls, lol So this question is in the general chat and i just wanted to know cause i read a thread that made me laugh and i was wondering who else is out there. Well, How many of you all are male soap makers? :think: And how many of you are female soap makers? I think there...

Hello, the title of this thread is a bit plain but im hoping you guys can help me. I am just looking for a supplier that sells myristic acid and steric acid and possibly other acids like lauric and and ricinoleic ? I found a website that sells two of these acids, witch is good enough for...

Hey guys so i was playing with my oils and soap calc and came up with a formula that feels right. I wasnt able to add the primrose but im thinking of adding it during trace. Rice bran oil 25% Olive oil 20% Coconut oil 15% Castor 10% Shea butter 10% Avacado oil 10%...