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I used a cinnamon EO the other day for a soap. I used only 5ml of the EO and it smells awful! It's far too strong I wont be able to use it! put me off cinnamon for life! :sick:

Hello Soapers, Hope everyone is well. I have yet another question for you all. How much essential oil should I use in my soap? I make a 2.519 lb or 1142.979 g batch and it never smells strong enough! When I put that into soapcalc it says I should use 0.38 g of fragrance, I can't find...

I will have to give this a try soon thanks for your help :)

Hi guys this is the finished result! Unfortunately I wanted a lot of purple and as you can see it went a blackish grey colour. There is some blue in there as well which stayed blue and you can see the red and pink embeds stayed red n pink also, they are all the same make and all oxides. Its a...

thanks for the replies guys. I am trying to find different colours but at the moment this is all I can find (I live in the French Alps and it's hard to find anything here) I'm looking at ordering colours from the UK but shipping is proving costly. I will have to keep looking Happy soaping...

I added a little at a time but as soon as it touched the soap batter it turned black :(. I made another soap about 4 weeks ago and it is still grey! Good job I don't sell my soap its just a hobby for me at the moment :)

Hi yeah said it was fine for cp soap its an oxide I have the same in blue, pink, green, black, yellow and red they all work fine its just the purple :(

Hi everyone hope you are well. I have bought some purple colour for my soap and as soon as I mix it with the soap it turns black :( looks beautiful in the pot then when it goes into the soap batter it all goes wrong! Any ideas why? Thanks for reading me thread

Hi thanks for your reply. I live in a small village in the French Alps and I have looked everywhere, even been to the big town 45 mins away and still can't find anything there, they really don't have much unfortunately. I have made castille soap but I don't get much of a lather unfortunately. I...

Hi thanks for your reply no I don't have palm kernel oil either :(. I can only find very simple oils which are used for cooking like olive, sunflower, walnut, corn, peanut and vegetable. I can order it from the UK but shipping is super expensive and the reason I make my own soap is to keep the...

Hi, I've been wondering about walnut oil in soap what is it like? That's 1 of the oils I can actually get in France! Finding it really hard to find oils here! What property does it give to the soap? Thanks Reah :grin:

Hello Soapers, Hope everyone is well. I was just reading a website made for British TV about making soap. In the recipe she uses coconut oil but goes on to say that you can use vegetable fat (shortening) instead! I'm having trouble finding coconut oil here in France and was wondering what you...

To be honest I really don't know, maybe I used too much I know that its CP safe as I looked before I bought it. I will have to try the soap again but with a different fragrance too see if it was that! Thanks for the reply :)

Hey guys I'm not sure I used too much coffee because it was the recipe from soaping 101's coffee soap, I'm pretty sure I used the right amount of lye because I used soapcalc to determine my recipe. Thanks for your thought I'm sure I did something wrong just not sure what! Anyway I will probably...

You do realise you answered my question before I had finished to write it lol thanks again x

Hi again, I've been looking for a video on plastic bag rebatching but I can't find soap queen just mentioned it but there wasn't a video. Does anyone have any more info about it please? Sorry to be a pain! Happy soaping x

Thanks that's a great idea I will take a look at the video. I hope your soap turns out better than mine. Happy soaping :)

Hi there I didn't make a cutting video because it didn't work, the video is mine and the photo is how it turned out so not well at all unfortunately. It smells great though, I will have to learn how to re-batch soap now as I have never done it before! Also I cant find a slow cooker in France not...

Thanks for all they replies I will take it all into consideration for the future.

Hi I got it from an English site called bee beautiful. Thanks