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Hey everyone. My wife has fallen in love with aura cacia's pillow potion blended essential oil. Supposedly, it contains: -hop oils -chamomile -lavendar -yarrow I'm just curious if anyone else has used this essential oil, or better, found a way to recreate it? Specifically, any ideas...

Hello! It's not actually metal, it's a plastic cross stitch sheet. It was a suggestion I saw because it allows the soap to cure/breathe on all sides, and it does seem to work pretty well. It should be available in the fabric section of any crafting store, possibly even wally-world :) Here's...

Made another batch this evening - same recipe, but this time using eucalyptus, camphor, and peppermint. I ended up using 4ml of peppermint, 2ml of camphor, and 2 ml of eucalyptus. It has a light, spearmint kind of smell. I based those numbers off of the fragrance calculator on thesage.com. I...

Just some photos! In the molds: Ready to cure (and make our main bathroom smell nice): I removed the soaps from the molds today. Everything looks good, but they're a little tackier than I expected them to be. I'm hoping that gets better with aging. Some things I think I need to do: 1) Get...

I used an aura cacia essential oil that I picke up from our local natural foods store. It smells great, and strong, but like I said it tightened up. Watching through some of the soap queen videos, she mentions adding essential oils and stirring by hand. I used the stick blender - I wonder if...

Well, I made a test batch just a little while ago. 1 pound of soap (same recipe) but instead of using all of the other essential oils, I used .5oz of lemongrass essential oil. I wish I could have been a tiny bit more precise, but the brambleberry calculator seems to be dead at the moment :(...

LOL! I grew up on a farm, so lard doesn't phase me in the slightest. The nice thing is how cheap it is - the rest of these oils can get super expensive super fast. We live near pork processors, so lard is plentiful! My wife is used to it now too - but it took her a little while to get used to...

Well, while my wife is "receptive" and I've already got a foot in the door, I ordered some castor oil off amazon (it's JUST another few dollars dear!). So, after poking around a little more on soap calc with folks suggestions, here's what I am looking at: 60% lard (awesome because lard is...

Hi! Sadly I don't have any castor on hand, and it isn't readily accessible without ordering from amazon (not out of the question if it's really necessary). Superfat is currently set at 5%. I tried the brambleberry calculator, but it will only calculate for a single oil. Do I add the...

First, hello! I just ordered everything I need to make my first batch of soap (i think)! A long time ago I fell in love with a menthol/eucalyptus body wash. It was rather expensive, and sadly didn't stay in stock. It had a wonderful cooling feeling on the skin, and the aroma that it made not...