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Finally I feel mentally ready to get back to soaping, just measured out everything and am letting the oils and lye get to RT before starting. Had a request for Patchuli orange and patchuli amber so im making those today never worked with them so RT is always best to make sure I dont get a brick...

Well Just got the word that the husband has been stationed in Japan starting next year, I willbe going with him for ATLEAST part of this time. Does anyone know of any suppliers in that area for my Lye? I would assume most other things would be fairly easy to find (or depending on cost I might...

You all share your knowlege with me, so I figured I would try to return the favor. I see lots of people asking for opinions on their website, and have had a couple people poke me in the last couple days about their site, so instead of doing it 10 times and telling people similar things I...

Where can I find how to do some of these decorative tops or swirls and such. I hunted around in Youtube and its FULL of some seriously bad videos, and also some decent ones but nothing that shows how some nice tops and interesting swirls? I have my size down, and a couple recipes I like, I am...

Or: What the heck happened?! So I like to make soap, I really do! I have my tank, I have lots of scents (NEED MORE SCENTS!) and I am getting awful close to my basic 'go to recipe' being completed. (Everyone likes it, and its 'good' all the way around) so that I can start working on the...

Currently I use 3lbs of oils and full water via soap calc, and I get monster bars that dont fit in the hand. I accdently made good size bars once but dont know how many lbs of oil it was (It was master batched split wrong) I wanna say it was 2 lbs, My mold makes 11 bars at about a inch thick...

My cutter! Pics enclosed. :) Now hopefully this weekend I can make some soap :) I am so excited to try it, spent part of the day unboxing, and tightening. IT seems solid as heck, so im not too worried. :)

I am going to be placing an order with WSP, (And just WSP) and needed to pick up some colors as well, I need a Red (Cloth/Fabricish red, not too bright but not matte.) and a black, as well as maybe a nice minty green. Do any of you have suggestions or ones you worked with that you can show me...

Was thinking of brewing coffee and subbing the water for Coffee and maybe mixing in some of the grinds/powder into the soap itself, anyone done this? What was the result?

Hey there, I had someone at the metaphysical shop ask me to make a soap for them with "amber" and all I can find is amber Fragrance oil, this person is fairly special in my 'circle' of soap wanters, so I want to make sure i make the right thing. They sell Amber oil (Essential?) at the...

As you can see, on the left the lilac simply did not go well at all. The brown blue middle there /was/ a nice purple until I added the FO, and WHAM pudding and ugly color. Makes me sad in my heart place :( But the lemon grass came out really nifty, unintentionally even, I had forgotten to mix...

So, We all know soap is slippery, I mean, it goes without saying. But have you ever made excessivly slippery soap? I personally had one of my soaps be CRAZY slippery I almost fell and broke my neck! Everyone that tried this soap said "its slippery!" and I had another (Diffrent recipe) be super...

So you remember that cheap yogurt you could get at walmart growing up that came in a big white container with fruit painted on the side? Thats what half my lavender soap I just made came out the consistancy of, the other half was perfectly fine! I added purple mica to the oils, and the FO to...

I rarely ask for a quick responce but I was prepping to make some soap and I spotted this, on almost every type of soap i have made so far, if its mold, im not making more till i figure out why, if its ash, ill figure out how to deal with it and move on. Attached are pictures of the culprit...

.... And I have soap.... I wonder......how this would go........ ^.^

Had a bit of a strange experiance. I frequent a metaphysical shop, and promised the ladies there that when I had some that were 'ready' they could have some for free if they gave me honest feedback. All of them qere quite anxious and happy to do so, (After some re-assurances on the location of...

And got feed back from 2 people so far. One person was really busy, but wanted to drop me a message saying that my soap was 'Wonderful, it didnt dry my skin or irritate it like some soaps, and it smelled nice, and did the job' I was pleased with that. The other one, gave me feedback that I...

I tinkered with soap calc, because I noticed a pattern, that I tend to get hung up on the numbers sometimes and it leaves me with the same old default oils to use unless I force myself to try somthing new, even then I tinker with it to get the 'numbers right' so while tinkering today I made one...

I have had these two problems ALMOST consistantly. No matter the recipe or the scent added, this makes me think its me, not my process so I figure I will walk you through the process I do (The end part, not the whole thing :D) and see if you guys got ideas: So, I have mixed the everything in my...

Well, after using the first bar they really like it but a couple have mentioned they would like more bubbles. I am not secrative about the recipe i used I think its pretty basic: 30% Coconut oil 8% Castor 37% Olive and 25% Palm I have other oils (Bab, PKF, Sunflower etc) But no matter how much...