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I made my first soap dough last week. I let it set for a week, wrapped in plastic in a vacuum sealed bag. Today I pulled it out to work with it. I kneeded it and rolled it in a ball. When I pressed the ball it sheared as shown in the picture. It’s not dry or crumbly at all, it actually feels a...

Anyone looking to try a bunch of Fragrance Oils from Brambleberry? They are having a sale, buy 10 for $20, that’s 50% off. I don’t have anymore information, for questions see their website. https://www.brambleberry.com

Yesterday I decided to finally try making bath bombs. I am using recipes from Swift Crafty Monkey's e-book BATH TIME FUN: BUBBLES & FIZZ. First I tried the recipe titled Bubbling Bath Bomb. The ingredients are baking soda, citric acid, SLSa, oil of choice (I used Fractionated Coconut Oil) and...

I have searched and searched but was unable to find anything that addressed problems with combining jojoba and oakmoss. I ordered oakmoss absolute and Jojoba oil to assist with getting my EO's to stick. This morning, I followed Zany's instructions, below, to incorporate oakmoss into the jojoba...

I attempted a Taiwan Swirl this morning using Apple Jack N Peel, a CC FO that was reported to not accelerate. Not sure if it was the FO or something else but this batch accelerated like it was at the drag races. I glopped it in the mold, barely got the dividers out, attempted to swirl it into...

I made two small batches of soap yesterday to compare tallow, which is new to me, and lard which is in most of my soap recipes. I will most likely end up with a combination of the two but for experimentation wanted to start separately. For each recipe, I used 75%lard or tallow, 20% coconut and...

We have a project truck that a mouse got into and died. The body and associated mess has been cleaned up from the carpet and baking soda liberally sprinkled (twice) and vacuumed. Problem is that the dead/decomposing stench is still pretty strong. Any recommendations for something to help get...

Hello, not sure what happened here. Any ideas and how to avoid this would be really great. There are spots on my bars that sorta look like dragging from my cutter but I’m not sure. Maybe I cut too soon? Maybe it’s my recipe? I poured at light trace and swirled in the design then popped the...