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BB's grocery outlet http://www.captainbin.com/family/bbs.html in Morgantown, Pa. Right off the turnpike, right off of route 23. They sell groceries that are expired, and/or dented. (Think, stuff heading to the dump, but stop here first). They sell the large 3 litre tins (close to a...

I am going to finally get myself a silicone lined mold. I prefer a bar that is 3"L x 2.25" H x 1-1.25" W I can't find a mold that makes that size bar. I am willing to fall in love with a new size bar. I also want one that will fit in my oven, as I like CPOP. This one...

So, I have a bucket of lye that volcanoed on me (I was too tired to make soap, and quit after the volcano). So now, I have a bucket of unknown proportions of lye:water. Do I dump a bunch of vinegar in it? (That's how I cleaned up the volcano all around). This is has never happened to me...

So I just made a batch of coffee soap, that I use in my kitchen. 40 oz. olive oil 17 oz. coconut oil 9.5 oz. strong coffee (supposed to add 13.5 oz milk) 7.5 oz. lye 1 T finely ground coffee Okay so I forgot to add the milk. So instead of a 33% water solution, I did a 17% water...

I have never used FO. I am wondering about some scents that discolor in CP soap. When you rebatch/handmill soap, and add FO that morph over time, will that happen in rebatching? Or will it stay the same color that it is out of the bottle?

I am thinking about using the Pink Frosted Cupcake (from southern garden) for my step daughter to make her some cupcake soaps. I'm wondering if it's possible to color it red, like red-velvet cake, or any other color. Or does the color that it turns to look like cake? I'd like to make...

I have a wooden mold, and I use plexiglas inserts to create separate bars (i used it yesterday to make salt bars). When I uncovered it today, the plexliglas was all crackly at the top (NOT where the soap was touching, but at the top where there was no soap. This happened to me with another...

I just made 100% coconut oil soap, 20%SF Today I cut it and there are swirls of white lye, that zaps. It's not crumbly at all, I just think that it's swirls of lye heavy soap. I've never rebatched before. Can I grate the whole thing, with the swirls and all? I would have to loose a...

I just used the mini christmas trees for the first time yesterday. I put them in the oven for CPOP, and I left the oven on for 2 or 3 hours (by mistake) instead of 1-2 like I have usually done with wooden log molds. I left them in for 24 hours. Okay, I calculated my recipe wrong, and had...

I want to make snowflake soaps, using CP. (I'll be using 100% coconut oil) I am thinking peppermint EO for the adults, but there are some young people I want to give these too also, who don't like the tingle or smell of peppermint. I've soaped for a long time but I've never used FO, and...

I like 100% coconut oil soap with a 20% superfat. I am wondering about doing a coconut oil/cocoa butter soap. I was thinking 75% coconut oil 25% cocoa butter (or maybe 80/20). I have bought soap that was coconut oil based, the ingredients were coconut oil and then sesame oil. I never got...

I just messed up a huge batch of soap. I curdled the egg yolks, by accidentally pouring too much hot soap into them AND I didn't notice it until AFTER I poured it back into the pot. But it gets better/worse/funnier. I noticed that my glass thermometer is broken--which either broke in the sink...

I made some lye water a while ago, 50:50 lye/distilled water, and I added some sugar, 1T ppo. I ended up making a smaller batch of soap, so I used less lye water. Can I use this lye water now for something else? How do I measure it out? Does it weigh differently now since I added sugar...

I made on Sunday: 100 oz. basil infused coconut oil 14.66 oz distilled water 14.66 oz. lye (20% discount) 6 T white sugar added to lye water 16 oz. cow's milk added before trace, but after emulsifying the lye water and oils I took out a third of the mixture and added about 1 t of...

I've searched the archives here, and I am finding that people are saying to use both stainless steel wire, and/or guitar strings. Not all guitar strings are stainless steel. I have one here that says "plain steel" on it. I can only find thick stainless steel wire in the hardware stores near...

So when I moved into this house, (um, err, 6 years ago heeheee) I was in the middle of making soap. I had put oils in a pot (a combo of maybe palm, coconut and olive, though, I'm not sure if I put in all or just some of them. Also, I don't know which recipe I was using, so I dn't know...

I used up the last of my palm oil. Because of the controversy around it pertaining to deforestation, I think I would like to avoid it, until I can find a source that is sustainable, and affordable. lo I have made the 100% coconut oil soap, with a 20% lye discount, and I liked it. BUT, I...

My husband's cousins live together in the country and they have well water. They were just telling me that their water is really really soft, and they have to add salt to their well for some reason. They add booster to their laundry because it won't lather without and it "takes forever" to get...

I have infused olive with cloves and cinnamon. I know that high amounts of clove cause a fast trace, but I have making this soap for 7years and have never had any problems. So my recipe was Olive oil: 33oz Coconut Oil: 25 oz. Palm Oil: 22 oz. Shea Butter: 1oz Water: 20 oz...

It looked great going into the wooden loaf mold. :D I followed Paul's RMCP for making it, except I have an excess of local cow's milk, so I used that instead of GM. I infused 2 vanilla beans, with the seeds, into coconut oil (100%) and it looked like ice cream base before putting it into...