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Gorgeous! I'd have never thought to use a light blue as a background for those colors, but it looks great!

I bought a bottle of Sandalwood FO from WSP, and it's been sitting around here a couple months. I've decided to put it to use - I'm going to split a batch and use straight sandalwood on half and (in case that is a little too "manly" smelling for me and I have to give all that to my husband) I'd...

Update: The soap was saved! Just cut. I was so excited to use this fragrance - BB Pineapple Papaya. I got a sample a while back, used it in a sugar scrub and fell in major love with it, so I ordered a bigger bottle. It accelerated a bit so I did the layers, and it says it discolors to a...

Thank you! This board is so helpful. If I've learned a lesson tonight it's to not go so long between batches - forget what I'm doing! Even as I was portioning out the coconut I was thinking to myself, sheesh, am I not done with the coconut yet? *face palm*

I thought about that too and don't think I have enough extra castor oil to get me there....

That teal and purple is a color combo I never would have thought to try but it is beautiful! Well done :)

These are fantastic-looking, and I'm one who doesn't usually care for "frilly" soaps! They remind me of those cream cheese mints you get at graduation parties - they're making my mouth water!

Hey everybody, It's been a while since I made soap and haven't been around much. I'm getting low so I was making a big batch of my go-to recipe tonight and did a boo-boo. Here's the recipe: 50% lard (38 oz) 28% OO (21.28 oz) 17% CO (12.92 oz) 5% Castor (3.8 oz) 34% lye concentration, 5% SF...

Shea or coconut butter make a bar creamier IMO but I've never tried them with a mainly olive oil bar (I'm a lard gal myself) - 10 butter may be a good place to start. You'll have a hard time getting more bubbles without coconut or other "cleansing" oil - but you can try adding 5% castor and/or...

Jewels, that bar is gorgeous!

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Oh, Sonya how wonderful! They are just precious.

That top layer looks like straight up ganache. Beautiful!

These are totally adorable.

My husband is a hobbyist mechanic and does regular farm work for his dad (read: he's dirty a lot) and his favorite is coffee grounds.

Thanks Carolyn! DeeAnna these look great! My drop swirls never turn out this nice. Or maybe I get one bar that I really like and the rest are ugly lol! Love your color choices too.

Mine was an easy 80/20 OO/CO bastille. The only fancy things I did to it was use coconut milk as the water in an ice bath, and add some Orange 10x EO. It was not pretty but everything went fine, and after a few months' cure I had a very nice soap. The bars I used later on after a years' cure...

I use a modified Taiwan swirl for my unscented bars (pictured here) and my men's bars (same but with mostly grey batter and a white swirl). It always turns out great and looks really impressive to people even though it's literally the easiest. I use 3 parts one color and 1 part another color -...

I once used some shea butter I took off a friend who said he wasn't using it and made 5 or 6 batches with it. They all got DOS in like 6 months (I had never had a batch get it either) and since I had been done using the butter for a while, it took me a while to make the connection. So a bad fat...

So pretty! I love that the swirl mimics real rose petals.