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I recently placed an order with Bramble Berry, and the lanolin I got clearly has fragrance in it. A sort of baby powder floral. Not even close to anything that might be considered the natural odor of lanolin (especially not when I have another jar from another supplier that doesn't smell even...

I had planned to do a black and white soap that would have a sitting cat silhouette in the middle. Yea, that didn't happen. Mixed up my soap, a trifle on the warm side, but not too much I thought. Added my fragrance and ZOOM! There it went. Not so much that I couldn't get color added, but there...

I got an unexpected present in the mail today. It's a shiny, silver and blue spinning ring. It's beautiful. This is the kind of surprise I enjoy. :smalltree:

Did a forum search and didn't come up with anything hugely useful. Swiftcraftymonkey also came up blank. I'm looking to make a beard oil for DH. Anyone have a recipe they like for such a product? It's probably going to be left unscented, since he tends to either not like scents, or not be able...

I think I'm noticing a trend regarding soap developing ash. The last two batches I've made I mixed to med-thick trace before pouring. Absolutely minimal ash on both of them. Other soaps that I've had accelerate or also got mixed to a thicker trace also didn't develop ash, or not much. By...

Thanksgiving is supposed to be a time to reflect on all the good things in your life. This year, I've got a lot to be thankful for. DH discovered a talent for writing just over a year ago (and I started learning how to edit), and his books have turned out to be insanely popular. The only debt...

Just finished editing for book one of a new series by my DH the Author. Now I get a week off! Hooray! Time to make some soap. :mrgreen:

Found at Bramble Berry:Grated Rebatch Soap Base - Basic and Grated Rebatch Soap - Luxury. Are there mad rebatchers out there that that's all they do??

I didn't take pictures of the glow in the dark Star Wars snowflakes. But MIL saw those and said "I want some, too." So she picked out some and I added a few more for her and this is what I wound up with. From left to right: Dr. Who Tardis (two-d bas relief), open latticework ornament...

Apparently I am a cookie snob. A couple of days ago, in an effort to be lazy, I bought a tub of Nestle Tollhouse chocolate chip cookie dough. I mean, it's pretty much the gold standard of chocolate chip cookie recipes, right? You'd think the premade dough would be at least okay, right...

Trying to make the best body butter I can with what I've got. So far, I've come up with this: Kokum butter 16 oz Shea butter 14 oz Meadowfoam seed oil 5 oz Rice bran oil 5 oz Recipe amounts are by weight, but my jars are volume so I should wind up with 10-12 4 oz jars with this recipe. I...

I love this idea for halloween! And I bet it would work beautifully as a variant on Bramble Berry's latest caramel apple soap thing, too. http://www.instructables.com/id/Cider-Spiced-Poison-Apple-Cupcakes/

By request, a new thread to continue this discussion. See, here's where it gets sticky, at least as far as I can see. According to FDA definitions, mineral pigments aren't actually 'natural', simply because they are not derived from a plant or animal source. But 'artificial' doesn't apply...

Article here on how to make your very own tiny hydrogen explosives! Pretty much all of us here have all the gear needed to do it. https://www.popsci.com/hydrogen-bubbles

The "Cognitive Reflection" test: Answers are in the link. I aced it. How many did you get correct?

I saw, somewhere, a calculator type thing that suggested EOs to combine with the entries the user provided. For the life of me I can't remember where or what it was called and my google-fu has failed miserably. Does anyone here have the slightest idea what I'm talking about and where I could...

Here's my brand new 3d printer up and running! It's currently printing out the test file. Once it's done I'm going to try printing out a soap stamp. If that works out well, as soon as I'm allowed to I'll put up an ad in the classifieds to print custom soap stamps for folks.

Just made this: So, there I am, puttering along, adding oils, going up the list... and I realize I just dumped my stearic acid in with my other oils. Great. Prepare for acceleration, I guess. Mixed in color and scent before I added the lye then didn't even have time to change gloves. The...

Calling this batch Serenity. First attempt at a hangar swirl. Scented with a pink lotus EO blend. The white specks you see on the soap are sparkles from the mineral glitter I added to the firefly mica.

Prompted by this thread, I decided to see if small PVC toys can be safely embedded in cold process soap. Soap is unscented, and the part with the toys is uncolored as well. Here are the toys in soap, and my excess that I decided to play with some more of my new micas with. I also decided to cut...