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hi everyone 😊 I was going to make some soap after a very long hiatus, and found a lot of old castille and Aleppo soaps that I had put away to cure and promptly forgot about. They are nearly 7 years old - if they still look and smell ok, is there any harm in using them? thanks for any input 💐

At all? Does it leave glittery bits?

I can't seem to do anything right lately! I've been waiting for this fragrance for days and today it arrived so I made a lovely batch of swirly soap only to notice the fragrance oil sitting on the counter where I had left it..... So I whipped up another batch, this time remembering to add my...

What would you put in your fantasy bar, if time and money were not a consideration? I have been making castiles lately, and as soon as I can get my hands on some bay laurel berry oil I will make an Aleppo style soap... It's got me thinking... Things I would like to try if I had unlimited funds...

The first time that I made salt soap I didn't have enough sea salt for my recipe so I searched my cupboards for some kind of salt and found some fancy salt spice blend (see pic) that I had bought and never used, so I put that in. It looked disgusting - like a piece of stodgy grey nasty bread...

Hi experts :-) I've been making CPOP castile with no concerns, but wanted to try preventing gel to see if the essential oils survive the long cure better. I can't seem to cut it though, it's always crumbly - either mushy/crumbly or hard crumbly... What am I doing wrong? It's 100% olive...

This was supposed to be castile soap: 700g Extra Virgin Olive Oil 210g water 90g NaOH Everything went to plan. Traced nicely. I tried to CPOP, but it started to rise so I took it out of the oven -maybe a partial gel? I was expecting just plain white...

I have been doing a lot of reading about soap, silk, shampoo bars etc.. And I'm quite prone to experimentation... I'm on my fifth or so batch of soap and thought I would try a shampoo bar. So ambitiously, I thought I would make it with beer as the liquid. While reading I discovered people are...