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I bought some Red Australian Clay from Heirloom and I am about to add some to my latest batch. It has a warning about how strong it is and it will stain they say. How much should I add to a 1 kg batch of CO soap so as not to risk any staining problems?, I spilt a small quantity onto my jeans and...

What do you call a donkey with 3 legs? A wonky donkey. What do you call a 3 legged donkey with one eye? A winky, wonky donkey. what do you call a smelly, one eyed, 3 legged donkey? A stinky, winky, wonky donkey. What do you call a piano playing,smelly, one eyed, 3 legged donkey? A honky tonky...

I have used Grapeseed Oil in a couple of my batches and now for the first time I am seeing DOS on my soap which is only a few weeks old and stored on open wooden shelves in a super hot dry climate. Is this the Grapeseed oil doing this? I will just use these soaps up asap as I think i read here...

I like the smell of Lavender and it is one of the very few plants that will grow in my lousy soil. As I am not wealthy and buying FO is pushing me closer to bankruptcy, can I extract some useable scent from my own Lavender plants? Steve :D

I bought a bottle of Avocado Oil and made up some soap today but for some reason I have a layer of oil sitting on top of the soap in the moulds. This avocado oil is the only change to my recipe, it says it is infused in Lime oil. I put in 7% of this oil in my recipe and superfatted 9% This...

I made a batch of soap using Palm 50%,Coconut Oil 20%, Grapeseed 20%, Castor Oil 10% with 10% Superfat and 200 Grams of White Kaolin Clay to the one kg of Oils. I added an extra 80mls of water and probably a bit too much Rubine colour and the end result works really well all be it only a week...

I have about 1 ton of Malting Barley which I have had in storage for a few years from when I picked up reject grain from the Malthouse I worked at. I fed this to calves and chooks but I have not had the time or the interest to raise more animals. I would not feed it to a horse as its a bit dusty...

I want to put my soaps into zip lock bags to preserve the fragrance.After about 6 weeks most of the fragrance seems to fade away, I used Bigtree Lavender Fragrance Oil at 3%. How long after I unmould my Coconut/Olive Oil soaps and stack out of direct sunlight on wooden shelves in a well...

The local takeaway shop gives their used oil away to be made into Bio-Diesel and I was wondering whether it can also be used for soaping. I have #250 Stainless Steel mesh I can filter it through to take out all the Floaties. I tried to search it but the only thing worse than my soaping skills...

I have a USB that is full of music so I bought a 250 GB external hard drive as it did not cost much more than another 16 GB usb. I dragged all my music from Windows Media Player into it as I did with the USB and the music will play on my PC through Media Player but when I plug the external hard...

I have just made my first batch of soap with 25% Palm Oil in place of some of the Olive Oil. I made it at room temperature and after only a couple of minutes it appeared to reach trace so I went to pour it into the mould's and about 20 seconds later it would not pour. I scraped it into the...

It has been 4 weeks now that I have been useing my 20% Pine Tar soap on the Psoriasis on my knee with no effect what so ever. I am off to the Quack next week so I will see what she suggests. I have read that alchohol abuse agravates Psoriasis yet I have had it on my knee for all of 35 years that...

For me it was whilst riding the train from Butterworth in Malaysia to Bangkok in 1982. Being a typical drunken Aussie tourist in the day's when an Aussie dollar would buy you 2 US dollars, I was backpacking alone through Asia. I had a skinful of the local ale on the train and mistakenly...

Whilst scratching my head trying to work out what to do with my surplus Kaolin Clay, I stumbled across a recipe for toothpaste. Are there any members out there who make their own toothpaste? I will give this recipe a go if I can track down all the ingredients. :D...

Whilst reading the ingredients on soap packaging, I have noticed they often contain Sodium Chloride, why is it so? :D

My sister tells me the only soap she can use is Dove. I thought if I can get a rough idea what is in it , I might be able to make something similar up for her to use. here is a link to the MSDS for Dove soap with 1/4 moisturizer...

Ive just recieved my package of oils and violet colour from Heirloom Body Care and I cant find any instructions anywhere to tell me how much colour to add :? . What percentage of this violet colour should I add. :)

These are my first attempts at Pine Tar Soap made from a recipe I found at BellaOnline, it is still spongy after one week so I have my fingers crossed. The Tallow soap was a recipe I concocted on SoapCalc, Tallow 630 gms, Olive 406 gms, coconut 280gms, Castor 84 gms, Lye 196.5 gms, water 532 gms...

I am off to visit the rellies on their Jersey dairy farm at Coorimungle in a few weeks and I was wondering if there are any goodly thing's like Beasting's or fresh cream that I could bring back and freeze till I am confident enough to make soap with milk product's? :D

I bought 5 litres of coconut oil on Ebay and have used it up with great delight and I am hoping there is a cheaper way to buy it. It cost me around $80 for the ebay oil after i paid $20 postage. I have rellies in Melbourne, Geelong and Ballarat who could be coaxed to go fetch for me with...