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We're finally moved into our new place (though still working on a barn for our beasts out back), and I'm ready to make some more soap! My goal is to have some soaps for sale on a small basis by late fall/early winter. I have a few recipes I'm very happy with and that have aged well so far. My...

I want to make lotion with some of my goat milk, but as I look as recipes and such I see that they all seem to call for pasteurized milk. The issue is that I don't pasteurize my milk since 1) I prefer to drink raw milk and 2) stove-top pasteurizing is a total pain. Right now I don't have any...

I made a CP soap about a month ago and decided to try a natural colorant. I went with cinnamon since I had it on hand. Unfortunately, tsp and tbsp are very close in spelling, but not in measurements. So I used far too much cinnamon in half of my bar. I just used one and I actually love the...

I made yet another ugly soap. Of course, this one smells great (rosemary and eucalyptus EOs), unlike my wine soap. Unfortunately, this one has also developed lye crystals. They're most prominent in the second photo and definitely zap. The soap itself does not zap. The loaf I made also has some...

I have a recipe I'm pretty happy with, so I'm trying to make it into one I'm really happy with (though I expect I'll never stop tweaking and experimenting). There are some things that I'd like to try out to see what difference they make. I'd like to sub tallow for palm, add silk, etc. However...

I started making soap in the fall because I had more goat milk from my one doe than I could use at home. In my state, it's illegal to sell raw milk for human consumption and you need to be a licensed dairy to sell dairy products otherwise, which is far, far too expensive for us to consider. I'm...

I'm new to soaping, and, thus far, my method of keeping track of recipes and notes has been to print out the soapcalc recipe, scribble on it (I have horrendous handwriting), then throw it in my craft room near the soaping stuff. Clearly, this isn't the best method. I have issues with handwriting...

As a reward to myself for studying really hard for the bar all morning (in theory, at least), I decided to try another batch of CP soap this afternoon. My first batch behaved very well, though it was a salt bar and I didn't cut it soon enough. I made a regular bar this time with different oils...

I want to try another batch of CP soap today. However, we have a bit of an issue heating our house, so it's about 50 degrees inside right now next to the heaters (and colder in the kitchen where I'd be working). Would that cause me problems with CP soap?

My very first soap was a goat milk soap with peppermint EO. My husband has been using it, and his mild psoriasis has basically disappeared. I've read a bit about peppermint EO being potentially good for psoriasis, so I want to make another batch with it for him. However, I'd like to add another...

I've been making HP soaps because I like the (somewhat) instant gratification of being able to use the soap sooner. However, I got some pigments for Christmas and thought I'd try a simple swirl with CP soap to see how it came out. I've also been reading about salt soaps and wanted to try that. I...

Hi, I'm a newbie from NC. I live with my husband, 4 cats, and 3 (and counting) goats). I started making soap a few months ago because I wanted to do something with all of the extra goat milk I had left over. I've made several batches of HP soap now, and I want to expand my horizons. There are so...

I'm a soap newbie, so I just started expanding my recipe horizons. I bought my first shea butter on Amazon just because it popped up as a suggestion when I bought my stick blender. It was raw shea butter, and I liked how it worked in my soaps. I need to order some more base oils now, and shea...