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Calling all MP soaping experts! I'm planning a Soal Eater cp soap with MP embeds for eyes and jagged mouth, placed in a loaf mold of cp soap colored black with AC. I'd like to use clear MP base for the red embeds. First of all, do you think this can be done? For instance, practically...

Hi everyone, I'm looking to make some cp soap for family who are real big into the Comic-Con scene, of which they attend several in a year to sell hero gifts and novelties. I wanted to make some soap for them on the theme of their current favorites, Soul Eater and Fairy Tail. I don't know...

Every year I take a group of mostly young-ish folks to a favorite spot to camp near the Blue Ridge Parkway in North Carolina. We hike, white-water raft, play in waterfalls, that sort of thing. This year I wanted to make soap as gifts commemorating our week together. Although these don't quite...

My 6 yo granddaughter Daisy swirled these soaps on Saturday. While she practiced pouring a thin stream of water out of a cup onto a dowel rod "column," I made the batter. She then column-poured her choice of colors into small 1 pound molds, and swirled it with a skewer after I showed her how...

Is there a better tool or way to apply a mica line than using a tea strainer and sifting it on? I'd like to figure out a way to spray it on, or "poof" it through some kind of blower. I even thought maybe using a bulb syringe like this...

***sigh*** I'm so discouraged today. I love making soap, and I want to keep doing it, but I just had a setback that makes me want to throw all my soaps out and hide my face. Maybe I'm over-reacting and throwing the baby out with the bath water. Can you help me sort it out and find a way...

Can all the colors in this palette all be made in cp soap using "natural" colorants? From top to bottom, this is what I think I can use, with blanks that hopefully some of you can fill in for me: 1. Some kind of clay? 2. Some kind of clay? 3. Cocoa powder? 4. ? 5. Indigo powder 6...

I couldn't get this soap off my mind since newbie posted it last week in the "browsing soap pics" thread, so I decided it will be my next soap attempt sometime next week. Having done a gradient soap somewhat successfully with straight lines and a thin pourable batter, I was wondering about how...

Today I attempted Auntie Clara's ghost swirl, and in mixing the low water portion I had trouble getting the caustic dissolved into the water for the 44% lye concentration. That portion of the batter in my recipe called for 144.51 g of water and 113.55 g of NaOH. No matter what I did, there...

My daughter and I would like to try something new for deodorants. She's been using Tom's brand, and I've been using a deodorant stone (potassium alum) and neither of them are up to the job. Any suggestions? I'd be happy to make our own, but confess I know very little about the necessary...

For those who have used it before, can I get a rich dark brown using coffee in a small amount of cp batter that would work as accent in a swirl? I would prefer no specks showing up in the soap. Does it morph or bleed? Does it play well with other colorants like TD or mica, if I wanted to mix...

As I mentioned in an earlier "what soapy thing have you done today" post, I introduced a dear friend to a day of soaping with me. Last week she had suggested we get together on one of her upcoming days off. This was to be a rare treat for us. I had moved several counties away from her almost...

Until the arrival of a grandchild ***sigh*** this guy does a fine job of being the baby of our household..... Meet Dembe, my daughter & son-in-law's 9 month old Cane Corso, who ---besides snoring loudly during my soapmaking --- also stands guard while they're away at work.

I am thinking about entering the May GC Soap Challenge, and was going to do a test batch of their suggested "slow mover" recipe, below. The thing is, I'd really like to reduce the amount of CO called for in the recipe to maybe somewhere around 10-20%, but definitely don't want to screw up the...

We were getting low on laundry soap, so I made a batch of 100% tallow. Always a pleasure, that. So easy, and making it reminds me of how it (tallow laundry soap) got me into soaping in the first place by needing to use up 50+ lbs of tallow rendered from a grass-fed beef we went in on. Then I...

I severely brain-you-know-what-ed and instead of ordering one 16oz. Bottle of flax seed (linseed) oil, I ordered 5! I only wanted to try a little in a recipe that called for it, but now I'm going to have to come up with a way to use it up, short of slipping it into my family's food to loosen...

First time trying to do a gradient soap. Gosh that's harder than I expected! Of course I had to make it harder on myself by putting a DIY lace mat on the bottom and a black mica pencil line. Would have like the pencil line to be super straight, but the batter was pretty thick by then. Tallow...

I'm not the most sensitive soap tester (I seem to love just about anything that lathers), so please see if you can give me a good description of what "mildness" means when talking about cured soap. I understand the saponification that needs to take place during the initial cure time, and then...

Can a 50/50 sodium hydroxide/water solution that has been master batched be kept indefinitely if stored appropriately? Do you have to use it up within a certain time frame?

I'm new to soaping, having only about 20 batches of cp soap under my belt, as well as a few batches of liquid soap. Most have been fairly successful, if you count unplanned but otherwise pleasant surprises as "successful." I'd really like to firm up my understanding of terms like "water...