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I have a simple 100% coconut oil / 0% SF soap that I use for dishes, with citric acid and unscented easy peasy. I just ran out of paste, and I want to try it with glycerin now to make a thicker soap. I've read the tutorials till Im crosseyed and I need better minds than mine to help...

It all started when my husband got a new job this December. His new boss very kindly sent us a fruit box with fancy fancy apples and pears. Well, she accidentally sent us TWO fruit boxes. I went into frugal mode and made a batch of apple pear butter so as not to waste this windfall. As I was...

I found this while perusing reddit http://imgur.com/a/EjAJV It looks like the ENTIRE FLOOR of their warehouse is the soap mold? Its just insane. I cant stop looking at it. How do they mix the oils and lye water? Is it all olive oil? How long do they cure it?

Yesterday we did ghost swirls (patterns made by the soap batter having different lye concs) at the soapy meetup. Hubs was asking for more of his indigo & patchouli lard soap, so I figured I would give it a try. The lye water had indigo powder (.75 tbs ppo, rounded down), citric acid and sugar...

Ok the WSP sale is coming up, and I've recently branched into lotions, and I want to make scrubs and facial cremes and and body butters and syndet shampoos, shampoo bars and hair conditioners! I have been reading the swifty crafty monkey blog as if for a final exam :) So what does the well...

Im about to make a couple batches of lotions, and Im in a quandary about how to scent them. What I would like to do is make, for instance, 2 bottles scented with geranium rose, 2 unscented, and 1 patchouli and rosemary. Smallest bottle would be 100 ml / 3.4 Oz Can I do that? I have lab grade...

Hubby and I only just realized this year that the green Hatch chile growers (from the Hatch region in New Mexico, not the company) have roasting events here in So Cal! New Mexico roasted green chiles are something special, so we have gone a little nuts. Last week we pressure canned 25 lbs of...

I am hoping that there are a few people here who also pressure can who can help me find the answers to some of my questions. I recently achieved a long-term dream of owning a pressure canner. The main reason I wanted one was that when someone offers me a baby 15 lb bluefin tuna, or 10 lbs of...

Just got a new round mold that worked a treat, and made a green embed with spirulina and my M&P soap. This is an accidental recipe that's become a favorite. I originally made it to use up some almond oil: 65% Lard, 20% almond and 15% coconut. EO is patchouli, and I added sugar to the water...

I am following DeeAnn's wisdom: "Citric acid and Sodium hydroxide (NaOH) make Sodium citrate in soap. Typical dosage: 10 g citric acid for every 1,000 g oils (1% ppo). Range 0.1% to 3%. 10 g citric acid neutralizes 6.24 g NaOH So my amount of oils is 1407 g Thus my amount of CA to use...

My apologies for the monster post, I seem to have gotten behind in my photography. But I've been having a lot of fun trying some new things! The first pic of the orange swirly soap is is a soap with a lot of firsts. My first time with red palm oil, my very first swirly soap (really!!), and my...

I dont know if anyone here is a Woot.com fanatic like me. The deal with Woot is that they have daily sales at discounted prices that run out when the item runs out, or the sale changes to new items. Shipping for any amount of items is $5 all together. I found this stuff on sale on the 27th, and...

So I went to a soap making meetup, and we made clear M&P soap! Ive never really thought about M&P, but now I'm all excited, and realize I know nothing! I've been browsing M&P colorants until my eyes crossed, and gave up. Can I use my natural colorants in M&P? I've seen some pretty results...

I have a plan to make a batch tomorrow. I want to do my first faux funnel pour, and I have a recipe that should be slow to trace, I plan to soap close to room temp, use sodium lactate, full water, and have pinky promised myself that I won't go past emulsion. Two questions: 1) Is adding sugar...

I just got this in from SMR for a veery good price. I wasn't expecting much because I'm not a huge florals fan, and, well, it was inexpensive. Holy wow I can't stop sniffing the bottle! I want to spill it just so I can keep smelling it! I did a search here and only saw FOs. How does it soap...

This was the maiden batch in my new tall skinny mold, many thanks to the thread about making your own wooden mold! The mold makes a loaf 2" wide by 18" long and 4" tall For my first recipe I decided to make some more of my red and black spa bars - which are usually done on a slab mold and...

So I made another lard soap because we love it and the local shop has these huge blocks of in on styrofoam all white and pretty. I tried to take a pic last time we were there, but they were sold out because tamale season. Though I got a little out of hand because I decided to fill up my 2 lb...

This is a repeat of a previous soap that turned out really nicely. It has 10 % hemp oil, French green clay, and ends up looking a bit like smooth stone. I tried a bit of jagged gold mica pencil lines, as well as glycerin and gold mica splashed on top. I'm embracing the soda ash on top to...

I don't sell my soaps, and this is something I've been wondering about. I've noticed in a few threads that people seem dismayed when they aren't the only soap vendor, or when more soap vendors move in. Now, I understand that when a consumer goes to a craft fair, its very likely that they have...

Doesn't it sound like a party? The beer soap was my very first soap with beer. I used an entire bottle of Arrogant Bastard Ale, froze half of it for the liquid with the lye, and boiled down the other half to about 2 ounces of syrup that I added at trace to half the batch - then layered the...