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Hello all, Here are my January soaps. I tried cool water, a coffee soap with oatmeal milk and honey fo, blueberry lemon verbena bars, salt bars with sea salt and driftwood fo, and fifty shades bars.

I just soaped with cool water a week or so ago. Just like JayJay, the non-colored portion turned a pink/burgundy color. I do like how they smell, but I don't have another supplier to compare it to.

I have 50 shades and Sea salt & driftwood on the way. I picked up true lilac, blueberry lemon verbena, butt naked and angel my last order. Just finished soaping with blueberry lemon verbena and it accelerated something fierce! I had to plop into the mold. Smells good, something about it reminds...

These are great tips! Thank you all for your help. I have enough from this batch that I will grind some up to add to another recipe, and give some a nice long cure and see how it turns out. I had the TD out for the cool water soap, then thought how white the lard bars normally turn out and...

Thank you for your advise! I will make another coconut soap with that recipe and see how it goes. I thought I timed cutting these better than my last salt bars. It was probably about 2 hours when cut, still broke apart. I will get it one of these days. When I make the next batch to mix the...

I can take more tomorrow in better light if needed.

Here are the different batches. Hope these load, it's late lol

Hello all, I normally punch in all my numbers into soapcalc on my computer, for these salt bars I used my phone. Maybe it was the small screen and no keyboard, but the screenshot of the recipe shows a 0% super fat. I didn't catch that until the soap was made. 23.46oz water 11.73oz lye...

Hey there, When I first started soaping I picked up 4 or 5 fragrances from Michael's. I thought I was doing something wrong because each of them went to a very lumpy mashed potato state within about 20 seconds of adding the fragrance. Hasn't happened since with FO from a good supplier that...

I listen to Pandora like a lot of others. On shuffle of old outlaw country, 50's and 60's oldies/rock, TOOL, Disturbed, System of a down... Mostly old country though.

It sure does look like a type of skink. We see red tailed and blue tailed skinks in California.

Thank you for the quick replies! This Ethiopian powder is sold for brewing that lends a hop aroma. I thought maybe make a tea or something, but I can't see any aroma surviving in the finished product. I just priced out the co2 hop oils. I'm sorry to hear they didn't work out, but glad I...

Hello all, Over the weekend I made a couple of soaps, one being an oatmeal stout beer soap that turned out pretty nice (pic attached for proof :smile:). This got me thinking of my favorite smells while brewing beer, HOPS! I love the juicy grapefruit, piney, and dank notes. Does anyone have...

I had a feeling the color wasn't intended for cp soap, but it was color that was available at that moment. I will be ordering colors online very soon. I was excited to see the color change! Chameleon soap... it will be interesting to see if it morphs into something else.

Pizza supreme soap... I love it!

Thank you! The soap batter was pepto pink. After gel it was this nice purple color. I didn't want to spend too much on color for my first go at it, so i grabbed a pack of red/blue/yellow from hobby lobby made by Life of the Party. I wasn't even sure if it was designed for cp soap, it looks like...

Hello everyone! After 2 batches I decided it was time to try color and fragrance. I was feeling brave and was going to try a swir too (I laugh now). I think I should have of stuck to one new step in the soapmaking process, not two. As soon as I added the eo it went straight to a very thick...

Thank you all! This was 72% evoo, 20% coconut oil, 5% castor, and 3% cocoa butter. I thought that would be a simple enough recipe to start to get my process down. It was really fun going through all the steps. I didn't know about another Brentwood either lol. When you get back into brewing feel...

Thanks not_ally! Now I get to play the waiting game while they cure. Yep, the sf bay area. I can't wait to get the process down so I can play with colors and fragrance.

Hello everyone, I am excited to join a great group of people here! I have been a passionate home brewer for a long while now. This all started when a friend gave me a home brewing book and a bucket to ferment in, now we're making up to 23 gallon batches. This same friend gave me an oatmeal...