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Last week I donated 100 bars to the local food pantry volunteers as a thank you gift. I used the vegan-friendly palm-free olive-free recipe that is now my go-to. It makes a snow white base and I don’t run any risk of offending a recipient. It also has 20% Shea butter, which people seem to...

How does everyone here organize their fragrance oils? I have everything from half ounce samples to 1 pound bottles. SO MANY from 20+ years. I purchased several sizes of glass bottles and caps to transfer FOs from plastic bottles into glass bottles. Once I do that, how do I organize them in my...

:dance::dance::dance: I just returned from two of our local South Asian markets where I scored some Halal goat fat. Apparently I can stop by daily to pick up more until I get enough to render a decent quantity of clean fat for soap. The markets are in the same small shopping plaza, so I can...

My bath bombs were stored loose in plastic containers with locking tops. Unfortunately, the extreme humidity of this summer seeped into the boxes and turned bath bombs into powder as soon as I touch them. Humidity seeped in to ruin all of the bath bomb embeds as well. 😫 Is there anything I...

Has anyone been testing/comparing dragons blood from various sources lately? I’m too late to the party to sample @cmzaha’s fabled DB stash. 🙁 (Cmzaha, have you thought about sending a small sample bottle to a fragrance house like Atlantis Aromatics or Lebermuth for them to analyze and...

🦨🦨🦨. At 11 o’clock last night our 2 Brittanys cornered a skunk out in the yard. Big commotion! Both got sprayed in the face and shoulders big time. Smelled like someone crushed garlic cloves up our nose. The dogs started rolling in the grass to try to get it off. I got them in the house, and...

My SIL and her extended family are leaving for a trip to Iceland and Scotland in three days. I thought it would be helpful to have shampoo bars and bath bars that don’t complicate TSA screening for liquids. The quandary I am having is on how best to package them. They could go in heavy duty...

You know you have Fragrance Acquisition Syndrome when . . . (finish the sentence.) I’ll start. 😊 You know you have Fragrance Acquisition Syndrome (FAS) when you park in the distant-but-free parking lot and walk an extra 2 blocks in extreme weather so you can save five bucks to justify adding...

I’ve been wondering how many on this forum play a musical instrument. Or sing socially with friends. I play an Autoharp. I hated them when I was in school because they were always out of tune when the teachers played them. Years later I rediscovered Autoharps when I was looking for an...

Has anyone used the hard plastic molds from Milky Way to make bath bombs? How did they work? I would like to make bath bombs with this soap mold for music. The details are less fine than my moon cake bath bombs, so my hope is that they would work. What do you think? Will it help if I cut the...

In viewing ICNI label requirements, I found that bath bombs or bubble bars that include a surficant Like SLSa or SCI require a warning label that the product is intended for adult use only. There is a phrase that children can use the product with adult supervision. Am I the last person in the...

I’m making moon cake bath bombs and cursing @TashaBird for posting her incredible painted bath bombs. I ended up checking out a Facebook page on bath bombs and discovered her posts over there, too. So I’ve spent the last two days looking at recipes and videos and bath bomb molds and presses and...

In honor of Ken Burns’s Benjamin Franklin two-part series that airs next month, I will be experimenting with variations for Crown Soap. I have leftover Bayberry wax from candlemaking and now have a new order of lovely granules to use as well. Ben’s father, Josiah Franklin, was a Chandler and...

Stephenson makes a melt & pour shampoo bar as well as a conditioner bar. Has anyone tried working with them? I’m looking at ordering the bases from the chemistry store. Any thoughts on the formulas? I like the idea of less plastic for packaging. I’m also wondering if they may be mild enough...

Just received an order of Lebermuth fragrances from the chemistry store. Non-discoloring vanilla Bay rum Twilight woods Sandalwood rose Lavender EO They all smell fantastic out of the bottle! I appreciate that they came packaged in dark glass bottles, just like Nurture. I received them less...

I looked through other posts regarding stearic spots without finding information on how they reform in CP soap after being completely melted. Troubleshooting white spots in soap is a popular topic in this forum, but I haven’t seen information on how they may re-crystallize in soap batter. Is it...

Does anyone masterbatch their mica in oils? Maybe store them in a squeeze bottle with a mixer marble like with TD? If so, what oil do you use? I am considering mica master batches in jojoba because it is fluid, stable (doesn’t go rancid), and has limited impact on total oils for lye compared...

Is it worth it to purchase a soap planer if I am a hobbyist? Should I just continue to use the flat side of a knife or soap cutter? I make between 10 and 40 3-pound batches of soap a year. If I look into a soap planer, what would you recommend?

Question: How long can fragrance oils still be used for soap? I have fragrance oils that are 10 - 20 years old. Some were tossed due to cracked/deteriorated bottles or failed labels. Others still look and smell fine. Can I go ahead and use them? Is there any reason to think they are not safe?

Last night I was blending my hurricane ocean soap, which was planned to be an ombré for the soap challenge. I was using activated charcoal to shade blue micas and that’s the last step used titanium dioxide to lighten the upper layers. Big mistake! My titanium dioxide was in a solution of water...