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Good morning, all! I have an accurate scale that I use to weigh my ingredients, but it has a 3 pound limit. I am working on a new adventure, and I am using the crockpot to cook the soap. I want to make sure that my final product is consistent from batch to batch, so it seems that it would be...

I make a whipped soap (the texture of purchased frosting) that I usually sell in an 8 oz.plastic tub. But I'm thinking about switching the packaging, because some customers say that it is too easy to use large amounts. (To be honest, they don't have a problem using too much, they say their...

Just a bit of a whine, hoping for some advice. I do CP ITP and ITM swirls pretty regularly in loaf molds and slab molds. I had a request to do a swirled soap in some small (guest sized) silicone flower molds. Each one holds about 1 ounce. My customer wanted whispy swirls, so I went with a...

Has anyone found organic palm oil? I can source red palm butter/oil pretty easily. But regular palm oil doesn't seem to exist. According to Google, the only place to get it is on Ebay from Dr. Adorable, and I don't trust them for a second. (Their prices are too good to be true, nothing has a...

I know that some FOs discolor CP soaps, and for the most part I'm ok with that. After all, brown Espresso scented soap seems reasonable. But brown Wildflower Honey? Not so much. I'm trying to limit my use of additives. I'm not opposed to chemicals, per se, but I don't like to add things just...

So I've done about 20 batches of CP soap and I'm feeling pretty good about that. I've been curious about HP and so when I saw the many threads recently discussing HP shaving soaps, I thought I'd give it a shot.I tried one based on the Silver Fox soap, substituting lard for the tallow (since I...

I made a soap recently that didn't end up shaped the way I wanted, so I decided to use it for embeds in a new loaf. I cubed up some to put inside the loaf, then I used a veggie peeler to make some curls to go on top. It looks great! But now that I'm ready to cut it, I'm not sure how to go about...

With 5 kids in the house I don't get a lot of free time, so getting to make soap is something that I can't wait to do. I think about it all day long, just hoping that the little ones will take a long nap so I can get an uninterrupted hour in the kitchen. More often than not, I'm soaping once...

I cut my lavender swirl soap yesterday. Now it appears to be "sweating". Any idea what this is? My thought is glycerin, but could it be lye or something else? I'm tempted to give it a zap test but that might not be the best idea. My recipe is below, just in case that is the problem. I...

Hello! Unmolded my 3rd batch of CP soap today. A lavender swirl -- my first attempts at EO and color! I used a shoe box with a plastic liner, so the slab ended up an odd size. I cut it into squares, but now I'm having second thoughts. I'm considering taking each of these "not quite squares" of...

New soaper here. :) Anytime I see something that I love, I decide I have to try and make it myself. That has led me to be a gardener, jeweler, beekeeper, fairy house maker, master of chile peppers, and builder of many copper garden structures. I had been selling our honey, but needed some way to...