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Cocoa and cinnamon bun swirl cupcake

Natural clay colorants are easy to blend and leave no graininess, neither does charcoal. Tumeric doesn't and I love paprika although it can leave flecks, cocoa definately leaves specks because it can be hard to blend but I like cocoa specks. Oxides blend well and cinnamon isn't too bad but...

Red palm oil is inferior, don't bother, amazon has nice inexpensive palm oil. Don't want to kill orangatans then buy palm oil from fair trade, sustainable harvest farms, which will be more expensive. Also not to sound like I am making and excuse but much of the world uses palm oil for cooking...

I find that most recipes need more scent than specified so I use the smell test to decide. This can be tricky though. You don't want seeping. Truth is we spend a lot of money on scents to sell soap not to use soap. Almost all scents will fade away. I do have my favorite brands though and once...

I know this may sound dumb but I hate math so all I do is fill my mold with water and then measure that to get my volume. Then I reverse engineer the water amount on a soap calc and oila! It isn't very scientific but it works every time.

I have added some new videos to my youtube channel. Check out soaperwoman and subscribe. Updated my website with a blog page. Go check it out everythingwonderfulsite.weebly.com You will also find info. on my other passion, scrapbooking. Updated my soaperwomansoaps Instagram account and have...

fo's I use a room temp method to make soap and I have never had to add fo's at any particular temp and it seems fine. You can add sugar with fo's. Sugars are more responsible for soap accelerations than fo's. You can absolutely mix fo's together with no problem. I always add my fo's after a...

Thanks, that half round is one of my favorite molds. I have been soaping for 5 months now and I am on my 200 plus recipes. I think I have made over 300 batches now. You can check out my instagram- soaperwomansoaps or my youtube videos-soaperwoman or my website- everythingwonderfulsite.weebly.com...

Don't ask. I have no idea?

You wait a long time for your soap to dry. Sometimes a very long time.

I think lanolin makes the best shaving soap. It goes in all my shaving soap. It's unique lathering ability makes it the perfect shaving ingredient. Adding olive oil as your primary oil will also make your bar more slippery. Seriously though try the lanolin!

I don't do neon that often but they do look cool.

Spent the morning carving soap. I have seen many videos using woodcarving tools but it always looks a little heavy handed and then I thought linoleum cutter. I used to make linoleum prints and the tools are much finer. It works very well. I was quite happy with the results.

The size will depend on the space she has but think picture frames covered in screening that will slide into a grooved rack. The rack can be covered on three sides with screening and the front can have framed doors covered in screening. The picture frame screening will have to hold a lot of...

I never had problems with f.o.s till I bought those cheap collections on ebay. They were cheap and nearly all of the 32 bottles I bought caused ricing or leaching. The quality of the f.o.s has a lot to do with how it reacts. I have also found that some companies scents last better in the soaps (...

Crumbly issues Crumbly bottoms can be common with clay soaps, along with salt. I like to pour clay soaps in individual molds to avoid cutting altogether. I also have a love hate relationship with titanium dioxide. If you added any it can cause crumbling. Most common reason for crumbling clay...

I have a recipe I found with 3 oz. of mineral oil so I guess baby oil would work. Like castor oil , a little goes a long way.

It's just not a good idea. Only give new soap to relatives. There are just so many things that could come back to haunt you. Of course I am really weird about the subject. I won't sell my soaps until at least 6 months. I want buyers to rave about how soapy and hard my bars are.

I have been soaping for 4 months now and have made over 120 soaps, each a different recipe. Just took a very ugly loaf of kelp soap and cut it up and made two pretty loaves of kelpy and kaolin soap. Pureed tomatoes for tomato and basil soap and pureed a papaya for well papaya soap, then I put...