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Paul, you use fresh goat milk though, right? Is it raw? If so, just let it sour a bit before using it (raw milk sours, pasteurized milk is evil and spoils, so that you don't want), and you'll have automatically built-in sodium lactate :D

Heehee, yeah, stainless steel in the future 8) I'll decide later what to do, after I get a closer look. The wood didn't splinter, it's more like a fine sawdust consistency and there's hardly any of it. Considering the crowd I'm selling to, it wouldn't be an issue if I just sold it at a deep...

Think I can market it as ultra-organic soap? :roll:

I think I figured it out . . . I think they're bits of wooden spoon :oops:

Okay, I can't get the camera to focus in enough to get a pic that looks like anything. But if I were to describe the spots, I'd say they look like little broken off pieces of cardboard.

Fragrance was a combination of vanilla cream FO (from Well Naturally), Peppermint EO and Lavender EO (1:1:1), I added 2-3/4 tsp. Color was ultramarine blue, 3/4tsp dissolved in 2tbsp glycerin. 6% superfat recipe. I'll try and get a pic soon here, I've figured out the camera. I've done the...

Thanks for the welcome everyone :D What's RTCP? Is there a sticky somewhere with the acronyms? (I'll go look)

So, last night I did another HP batch - 3 lbs oils in a ratio of 70:20:10 (olive:coconut:palm) - this has been my "staple" recipe, I made about 5 lbs of it 2 years ago and it has gotten me through until now (hence, my recent interest in doing soap again) - it makes a beautiful bar, but I've...

According to one of my books (Soapmaker's Companion by Susan Miller Cavitch or Casey Makela's Milk-Based Soaps, I don't remember which), if you leave your milk/lye mix at room temp for 24 hours, it will darken. So you could do room temp soap and still have your dark color. HTH! I just did a...

Hi, I'm Mandy. I'm back into soapmaking as of tonight - just finished my first batch in 2 years and I'm hooked again :) Nice to be here!

First hi, I'm new here :D For the ITMHP, do you still insulate the mold?