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Nice looking soap. You are off to a good start. No, you do not have to stick blend until the mixture reaches a certain temperature. I mostly soap with my lye and oils at room temperature or barely warm (I just feel the outside of the containers to get an idea of barely warm). I used to do...

Have fun, Green Soap! I just made my pink, rose-scented Valentine's Day soap in my heart mold. I wish I had two of them!!

Green Soap, in answer to your question about how much oil for the red heart mold, I guess I have to admit that I am not that precise about it. I make either one lb. batches or two lb. batches. That is what my formulas are for and when I use the red heart mold, I make up my one lb batch. So, I...

I use a small stainless steel carafe that I ordered from a science lab supplier. It was quite expensive but I have never had a problem since I started using it. It is a very high quality ss. By the way, our pyrex is all made in China now and that is one reason that it is of such poor quality.

Green soap: that red heart silicon muffin mold is a great one to have. I have it and have used it dozens of times to make really cute soaps. If I fill almost but not quite to the top of each heart I get a nice thick soap that feels good in the hands. I have never had the color come off on my...

Another thing to try is jojoba beads They come in a lot of colors, add some scrubby-ness and visual interest. Lightly sprinkled on the freshly poured soap will give you some color with very little effort. I have successfully swirled with jojoba beads as well but I do not gel those soaps so as...

I make a soap with dead sea clay. It imparts no odor to the soap and I do not scent this soap either. It does, however, give a soft grey tinge to the soap. I make this soap for myself and find it very easy on my dry, mature skin. Often, I will even wash my face with it instead of using my...

I never got "bumps" until I started to use my new tank. Now, I seem to get them on the sides of the cut soap where the wire went through. The tank has changed my soaping life so much. I was terrible at cutting, so I just live with the little imperfections. No one has complained or asked me...

I have two batches of goat milk soap (4 lbs.) that just came out of their molds today and are on the cure rack tonight. One was unscented and the other batch was with New Directions 40/42 Lavender EO. I used fresh goat milk. Both batches are creamy white. My trick is to put the soap...

Since both fragrance oils and essential oils have different densities, depending on that specific oil, measuring by teaspoon and tablespoon might not always give you the results you want. It is a good idea to weigh your scent oil just like you do with your other ingredients. Many soapers use...

I love to use the jojoba beads for coloring in my soaps. I have never had them melt or bleed. Sometimes I disperse them throughout the soap, sometimes I sprinkle them on top. But my most successful use of them has been to swirl with them. Makes for a fun and easy and stress-free swirl. Just...

I buy FOs from a lot of different suppliers but I have to say that for really inexpensive but strong scents it is hard to beat Peaks. I find that their FOs smell like they are supposed to smell, stick in soap and usually don't give any problems. These are not subtle fragrances with lots of...

I use the same technique that Bergamont and Bubbles uses and it works well every time. I can see the tiny dots of TD in the warm oils but after SBing the TD/Oil back into my pot of oils, everything seems to incorporate and the soap turns out just fine. I rarely use more than 1/4 tsp of TD per...

I am going to chime in here about the oatmeal. I find it is always too abrasive no matter how finely I grind it up. I do make a soap with it for my SIL. I just grind up regular oatmeal flakes in a spice or coffee grinder and add it at trace so that it does not sink to the bottom of the...

This supplier has so many amazing scents. I would have a hard time choosing my favorites. If I could only have one, it would be White Ginger and Amber, but I would cry over Hawaiian Pikaki. I have used so many of these FOs and reorder again and again. The only one that disappointed me was...

Golly I have a 2lb batch of soap made with BB's Mayan Gold and no way does it have even a whiff of mint to it. This is very strange. Maybe they have changed the formula. My soap turned tan, I suspect a bit of vanilla in the scent. It has a sexy, warm, oriental spice kind of aroma to it. I...

I do the same thing now. I do an ITP swirl with some of the unscented soap and even the dark brown soaps look more appealing with the white swirl. Still get those tan bubbles though. :D

I believe that three things contribute to a white soap. First off, use light olive oil, not the green or dark yellow kind. Make sure the other oils you use are light in color and find FOs or EOs that do not discolor (mostly trial and error with the FOs but any vanilla in the fragrance will...

When going this low with the ratio you can easily get instant trace. Start with a spoon for stirring at first. Be careful with the SB.

I went right through two stick blenders as well when I first started making CP soap. I did not keep them running constantly but probably I did not turn them off frequently enough. I can't remember now but I believe mine were also Osters. I probably got them at Walmart. I finally just spent...