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  1. ItsForrest

    Got a good Egyptian Musk?

    So, I have a customer who has requested Egyptian musk and wants a couple dozen bars. I make CP and have tried both NG and Aztec's Egyptian musk FO at 5% of oils and both are pleasant but really faint after 6 weeks of cure. Does anyone have a better Egyptian musk for CP? Is 5% just not enough...
  2. ItsForrest

    Loaf molds, best material to use?

    If you have used different kinds of loaf molds, how do they compare? By that I mean wood molds vs. white HDPE plastic molds. I'm putting this in the lye soap forum since I only do CP at this time. Not too concerned how they might perform with MP. I need to make a few more loaf molds. I'm...
  3. ItsForrest

    Setting Up Shop

    I've been off of the forums and haven't made any soap for about a year. Last year was my first year for selling soap. I did a weekly farmers' market most of the season and a bunch of fall and holiday shows. I learned a lot and I think my product improved by leaps and bounds through the year...
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    Scents mixing in the curing rack

    Have you noticed scents mixing between bar/batches in your curing racks? This morning I picked a bar of unscented, uncolored soap out of my rack for my own use. As I imagine most of us do, when I pick up a bar of soap, it goes straight to the nose. Lo and behold, the bar smells like the batch...
  5. ItsForrest

    Gotta say thanks to the group.

    So, I've been soaping for about a year now and I just have to say thanks for all the help and info. Since I've spent most of my time in the lye-based soap forum, I'll post this here where those who have helped will see it. There are too many names to list here. If you've ever answered a...
  6. ItsForrest

    Lotion bars, that simple?

    So, my girlfriend found a simple recipe for lotion bars and suggested I make a batch. It's a pretty simple recipe; equal parts Coconut oil, Shea butter & beeswax and add fragrance to taste. For those of you who have made these things, I have a couple questions. First, if I make these in one...
  7. ItsForrest

    Honey, mix with oils or water?

    I want to make a honey & oatmeal soap. I see some videos and recipes where honey is added to the oils before the lye and some with the honey mixed into the water first. How do you add your honey? Have you tried it both ways? I understand some of the issues with lye and honey generating heat...
  8. ItsForrest

    The home-made G-string soap cutter

    SInce there have been a couple people asking for more info on the cutter I made, I thought it might be helpful to post more info. So, here goes. Hope you can make sense of it. I made mine rather large. Since I was cutting strips off of a 24" wide piece of plywood, I made the thing 24" long...
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    Soapmaker users question

    I'm an accountant by trade. As you might guess, this means I can get a bit obsessed with the math of my soap making. Yesterday I installed Soapmaker 3 pro and spent a bit of time entering my inventory and exploring the program. The recipe and lye-calc doesn't seem as sophisticated as soapcalc...
  10. ItsForrest

    Learning to soap

    Hello from Jamestown, NC. After lurking for a while and finding answers for many of my questions, I figure it must be time to say hello. So, Hello! I made my first few batches of cp soap about six months ago. What I didn't give away is about gone so it's time to make more. While I do have...
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