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So I have a bunch of flower pots, some for indoor and some for outdoor use, some in terracotta, some in light weight concrete and some in the regular ceramic/stoneware flower pots usually are made of. Glazed and unglaced. And I wanted to cover them with mosaic, I mostly have those regular...

I have maybe a dozen or so of their fragrance oils and most of them smells very weak and I suspect they don’t behave very well in soap either. Although I haven’t actually tried them in soap yet. Their Seerose being the exception, smells good and behaves good in soap in YouTube videos. There...

I received an old wool blanket (in good condition) from my grandmother today but somebody told me it's usual for old wool to have been treated with DDT to protect from moth. I've tried to look it up but most information is contradictory, some say it's very dangerous, some says it's not...

So, I’ve been sitting for two days now reading on swiftcraftymonkey and googling and looking up suppliers and I’m starting to give up. It seems most European suppliers only carry preservatives based on Phenoxyethanol and benzoic acid and such. And all that seem much inferior to Germal...

I wanted to sort of deepen my understanding of how to formulate liquid soap and I have a couple of questions that I couldn't find the answers to in the forum, although I might just not have looked close enough. Anyway my first question is why so much castor oil? I'm fully aware of how and...

A couple of years ago I bought quite a lot of bird feathers from China on eBay, which I realised afterwards wasn't the best of ideas but having already bought them I figured I might as well use them. They have been sitting in a plastic shopping bag in a corner with their packages in various...

After reading through the big tooth soap thread I figured I wanted to make and use liquid soap paste rather than bar soap because that would make it easier to portion it out in jars and add scent/taste as I go since others experience have been that taste/scent will fade in the bars. I think...

I bought a 5kg package with lye the other week not knowing what kind of container(s) I would receive it in. Today it arrived in one big bag, so I figured I have to decant it. I think I have enough old lye bottles laying around for the whole bag and I thought I was going to do it with a funnel...

I'm in the process of making a batch of isg's version of pear's soap and I've heard that the resin/rosin scent won't come through in the final product so I thought I was going to scent it to kind of sort of mimic the scent of the resin. I have narrowed it down to a few EOs that I'm choosing from...

By chance I found a supplier for bay laurel berry oil and I thought, why not, so I bought a 100g bag for 5 euros to try making a small batch of Aleppo styled soap. It arrived a couple of days ago but I'm not sure it's the real thing I've got. If I understand it correctly the real bay laurel...

Okay, so I have some resins(aloes, damar, sanderac, benzoin, rosin, mastic, copai) i bought intended to make incense, then I realised that wasn't my thing, so now I'm trying to figure out something else to do with it. All in all I only have about 150g so it's not a huge amount, but I want to...

I'm going through my DIY-stuff trying to get rid of/use up things to clear up space and after browsing the internet I'm still not sure what or how to use a couple of things, any ideas would be appreciated! Grapefruit seed extract- bought it as a natural preservative but now I know better. Is...

I came across some threads about those in shower lotion bars a while ago and they seems awesome, so now I'm on the hunt after a good all around emulsifying wax but I have absolutely no idea what to look for. Does any of these seem good...

I'm going to make soap in a couple of square single cavity moulds with a darker green/lighter green swirl with some very light green grated soap on the top and in the bottom. Aaand was wondering if anybody wants to help me formulate a matching fragrance for it? :mrgreen: I'm thinking oak...

So basically I screwed up a batch of lye solution and thought I might as well flush it down the drain since I can't use it. It was a 2:1-3:1 water/lye ratio with about 200g lye. I diluted the solution with 3-4 parts water before I poured it down the drain and then run water after it for a minute...

I was reading the thread with Irish Lass's cacao/shea butter liquid soap yesterday and the recipe calls for PS80 which I don't have. But I do have sulfated castor oil. So I wonder if they are to any degree interchangeable in this particular recipe and/or in general. From what little I have...

I made a beeswax and honey themed soap a couple of weeks ago, everything went fine and it reached thick trace pretty much immediately as expected. But then something happened, lye water started seeping out of the batter. I mixed it a little more than gave up and put it in the mould and into...

So I got this idea the other day that, since I like the coconut soaps a lot but they tend to not last that long, I could add some stearic acid, maybe 10-20% or so to increase the longlively. I assume I could hot process it and then add the superfat in coconut oil at the end to try to avoid...

Does anybody know the maximum usage rate for Guaiac wood essential oil in soap and leave on products? I received a bottle of it the other day and so far I love it. Though I can't find anything on google about what amounts to use it in.

I happens to have a lot of Shea butter that I want to make use of and I tried making a soap with 20% when I was.. Well, newer to soap making and it wasn't very good with or without the Shea. Does anybody have any recipes/ thoughts they want to share? Would a higher superfat help with the drying...