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If you add Vaseline to make a more wet lip gloss do you add it to your melted butters or do you just stir the butters into it? I wasn't sure if the Vaseline melts or not.

Hi. I recently made my first body butter. It was: 32g mango 32g shae 64g grapeseed 1 TBSP arrowroot I used grapeseed as I read it would be less greasy than other oils. So my question is if I want it less greasy should I increase the mango or shae? I wouldn't mind if it got harder as a...

Crap I forgot to line mold with paper! Was already in the process of making and couldn't stop. So I decided to HP in the crock pot. My question is I assume I need to add more water because I took a water discount initially. Recipe: 50% lard 700g 25% avocado 350g 25% olive 350g 28% lye...

Happy Saturday all! So I'm not having much luck searching for using fresh avocado. Getting way too many hits on AO instead. Anyways my assumption is you likely use half water to dissolve the lye and then weigh the avocado to replace the other 1/2. So if that is true and I want to use pureed...

Is this safe for lips? http://www.nowfoods.com/Peppermint-Oil-4oz.htm

Is this what I need for soap making? It says food grade... http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0026XWKKM/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

I emptied out a tea bag and filled with 5 tsp paprika. How much oil should I infuse this with and what would the max usage be for additive? Thanks!

Hi all. So I read the article about water discount: http://rivercitysoaps.com/dwcp/dwcp.pdf I wanted to figure out what my lye solution percentage is based on the numbers given in soap calc and attempt to reduce the water slightly. So I have a recipe for 60% lard 40% OO. The numbers in the...

Hi all. I was wondering if someone could help me figure out why I am getting different amounts using different calculators. I was using brambleberry's calc initially because it was easy. I select solid soap, grams, and enter 300 for Olive Oil and 300 for Coconut Oil 76 deg, select 5% discount...