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    Best Books About Soap Making

    Please leave some recommendations, I'm getting back into soap making and I'd like to do it "right". The kind of book I'm looking for doesn't have too much... fluff (I'm not reading it to hear the writer's life story :'D). Has simple or progressively difficult recipes, and maybe covers a few...
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    Shipping and Handling

    Thank you everyone! To be honest I'm going to try the envelope even though it's against the rules and just let him know that he might have to pay a bit extra. For both of us, the difference in shipping costs makes up for the potential issues, since it's not a time sensitive matter. XD But this...
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    Shipping and Handling

    Hi, I'm sure this question has been asked many times, but please bare with me! I'm trying to send soap to a friend of mine in Utah. It's 3 small bars, with their wrapping the weigh 8 oz and are a little over an inch thick. I had used USPS to calculate the shipping cost and it seemed like a...
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    Honey

    https://thenerdyfarmwife.com/milk-and-honey-soap-recipe-cold-or-hot-process/ This is one of the recipes I was going off. They froze milk and used it in place of water. I was really interested in that, in order to have more milk in it. But P.S. from what I read also, the more sugar the milk has...
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    Honey

    Maybe the articles I'm going off of are just completely terrible and that's the issue, I'm not sure. This person used milk in place of water at the beginning of the recipe, to add the lye to. They froze it and used a double pot method with ice in the bottom in order to keep it from becoming too...
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    Honey

    Yes, I'd read that. I'm using milk in place of water, however, so I'm freezing the milk already, and I was curious as to why the honey can't be diluted in the milk. If it is frozen, would that be okay?
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    Honey

    Can honey be diluted in the water for the lye?
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    Suitable soap making book?

    I'm reading The Natural Soap Book: Making Herbal and Vegetable-Based Soaps on Scribd. I find it really easy to read, but it explains what soap is and what it does really well. I really enjoy learning from one person/book at a time, rather than constantly searching for information all over the...
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    Shampoo bars (or not to shampoo bar!)

    So, as a novice to the world of hair care and soap making, I'm getting incredibly confused. There seems to be no general consensus on hair at all, haha. In soap, the danger comes from the high ph correct? And so in order to get hair friendly safe soap, you can.... Add in agents to lower the ph...
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    Sunflower and Honey Soaps

    Hi guys! I actually have been experimenting with milk and honey "shampoo" (in this case it's my favorite bath additives so I just bathe in it and rinse well). It cleaned my hair, getting rid of the greasy feeling. Today my hair feels thicker but has a slightly different texture than what I'm...
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    Sunflower and Honey Soaps

    Wow, thanks so much to all of you for your help and information! Sorry I wasn't able to get back to you sooner, it's been a busy few weeks and my soap making has been taking a back burner. I'm still really interested in making something to wash my hair with! I have been going no poo, but like...
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    All Natural Homemade Body Paint From Found Pigment

    Oh gosh, that makes me think about the possibility of growing crystals myself and using them for pigments, I've always wanted a crystal garden, haha! :D
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    All Natural Homemade Body Paint From Found Pigment

    Ah, well, that wouldn't count for what he wanted, haha. He was very specific in that he wanted something made totally from scratch and found materials. He's using it for rituals, who am I to judge? So that's what I'm basing it off of. Perhaps it was indigo leaves I was thinking of... in fact...
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    Sunflower and Honey Soaps

    Well, actually I made soap using sunflower seed oil and it had quite a strong and pleasant scent, so that is what I was talking about. I had wanted to make "shampoo" using castile soap... That is in fact what seems to come up when looking for recipes, I've never heard that it was bad for your...
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    Micas vs. pigments

    CMZAHA: Oh, I am sure! I originally started the research for body paints, not soaps, but I have barely scraped the surface.
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    hand stirring your first batch?

    I hand stirred my first batch... and ended up giving up after about 4 hours, assuming I had ruined it. I poured it into jars thinking I might be able to use it for something, and it solidified in there... Afterwards I was so nervous about whether or not it was good to use, I ended up throwing it...
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    My first Castile Soap - Did I miss Something?

    Interesting! I'm just about to make my first batch of castille soaps and I had no idea you needed to wait 9-12 months... wow, that's a bit disappointing! What is the difference between liquid castile soap and solid castile soap?
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    Micas vs. pigments

    I have actually attempted to make pigments from found materials, such as berries, dirt, and leaves. You can do this pretty easily with berries by chopping them up and dehydrating them. However, the hardest color to make is blue. The ancient egyptians used a complicated process involving copper...
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    All Natural Homemade Body Paint From Found Pigment

    Hi ya'll! I'm Maddy. Pretty recently, I had a friend come to me asking me to make him all natural body paints. He specifically wanted blue, green, yellow, red, and black. I decided to make him the primary colors and black, and leave it at that! I was very enthusiastic at first, and then...
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    Sunflower and Honey Soaps

    Hi everybody! My name is Maddy. (Wait, this isn't the introduction thread! Just kidding!) I'm currently trying to figure out how to create a batch of Sunflower Castile soap to use to make a Sunflower and Honey shampoo. (Mmm, just mix sunflower seed oil and honey to make an amazing salad...
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