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Hi! I'm Bunny. I'm old school soaper, been around about a hundred years, lol. I just haven't been in here in a very long time. I'm a hard-core lard soapmaker. I have used virtually every basic (and some exotic) soaping oils/fats, and I always come back to me lard/coconut soaps. They are my...

Thank you all! Otay...I tried the resizer. My picture looks the same size. So I tried it again and it still looks the same size. What am I doing ignant?? (Warning: attempting to educate me on techy stuff can be frustrating and can cause hair loss!) :headbanging:

...wow. That pic is huge. :think:

I whipped-up a small batch ('bout 9.25lbs) of my 2Fat Soap, hot process. It was soooo stupidly easy, lol, this recipe is about idiot proof. But I enjoy it because it is a "therapy recipe". It's so simple I can practically make it without a brain (I needed that today). After cook, I added tea...

Beautiful stuff!

Hi yall! It has been a VERY long time since my last post! Years, I think. I have been out of soapmaking for awhile because of life in general. I am back into my soap again, thank God. It is such wonderful therapy. And I want to educate my grandchildren on soapmaking, so I am writing about it as...

Truly stunning!

I make CP and HP, using the same recipes for both, BUT (and this is a big but!), for CP my recipes have about a 33% lye solution. That would not fly with HP. So I simply add in more water for HP. As a rule, here it is: For CP I like to use a 33% lye solution which breaks down to about 1 part lye...

Ash is sodium carbonate.... totally harmless. If it is not thick ash, you can use a microfiber washcloth and regular isopropyl alcohol to polish it off, and no it won't come back. For really thick ash (which is caused from a combination of ingredients, PH and hot gel phase) you can cut it off...

I prefer tallow to palm. My favorite is tallow/lard combination with olive & PKO. It's amazing.

I have noticed that the lye water will saponify any oily residues in your lye water container, like the almost invisible oily residue that is left on plastics after washing them. It creates a flaky film in the lye water. It's fine and won't hurt a thing. If your lye is good fresh lye, it will be...

Soap balls are very easy to make from HP soap as well. If you need soap balls right away, you cann cook up a batch of HP soap, divide it up after the cook, add colors and then roll it up into balls and let them dry overnight before adding them to your CP soap. You just need a basic tutorial for...

It's little carmelized specks. It's very common, especially if you use powdered milks. It is fine and won't hurt a thing. It just means the soap got pretty hot during gel. Not hot enough to mess up the soap, but hot enough to carmelize the tiny globules that milk sometimes has (gotasmilk...

That's great looking coffee soap! Very nice.

Rosey, how I use sugar is, dissolve the sugar in your recipe water before you add the lye. I mix the sugar into half the recipe water as hot water. After the sugar is completely dissolved, I add the remaining weight of water as ice cubes to cool it down. I do it that was to use it right away. If...

Safflower is fanastic. It adds great qualities to the lather. I use it alot at around 15%. I like it much better than canola.

ROFL. Too funny! And the soap is so bright and cheerful!

Serious "Oo, Ah" moment when I saw that! It is absolutely gorgeous!

You are the pro! They look wonderful.

Gosh, that is beautiful. It looks like some kind of expensive spa soap. Two thumbs up!