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Coming late to this thread, I know... I like the way you put that. I confess that I do make one claim about our soap: "We do not remove the glycerin, so it won't dry out your skin like commercial soaps, even if you need to wash a lot." I think our claim is logically defensible, because glycerin...

I have somewhere over a hundred of King EP-24855 24/410 4oz. clear bottles I can let go. There are no caps, just the bottles.

Last year I was working on a soap DB for our hobby business. I had other priorities this year, and I did not finish the admin functions. But it is generally functional. If you have hosting with PHP and MySQL, you can run it yourself. If there is interest, I could set up a demo on my hosting...

We often use fanciful names for our batches, like "Cinnamon Goatmeal" or "Goats in the Clover", but we always use the original fragrance names in the ingredients. Just a data point.

Yes, they used to throw the cubes of oil into the trash. One of my personal peeves is wasted food, and this oil still has life in it. We got a good recipe when we started, and it seems to work well with the oils we get. I looked up the sap values a few times, and they are pretty close. Looking...

It's no secret. I get the oil in the plastic cubes from the restaurant and let them settle. A week is probably enough. Then I carefully decant the oil into a 5 gallon pot, stopping just before the crud comes out. I heat the oil to 70C, and then filter it through a series of strainers, down to 25...

OF COURSE I LIST ALL THE INGREDIENTS! In this example, the label continues with shea butter, beer malt, and lavender fragrance. We ALWAYS list the ingredients. In our flyers and ebay listings, we tell that we do not remove the glycerin, so our customers can infer that our soap has that, too.

My ingredients labels start with "Soap (made from recycled vegetable oil, lye, and water), ..." Yes, I know there is more water than NaOH, but my reasoning is that the oil and lye are the primary reactants. Anyway, I think that is the most truthful way to say they're getting soap, not oil and lye.

Good job! I tried the "farmers market" twice in Sundance and it was lost time. The customers parked in the lot, walked directly to the seller they wanted to buy from, and then went back to their vehicles. There was NO browsing. I had no chance.

Aw, what the heck... My happy is we are starting to get vegetables from the garden. It's minor, but I really enjoy having food we grew ourselves.

Lin, if you have hubby, bring him along. The times "we" sold soap locally, I was usually the one at the table. When someone would get close, I would look at them cheerfully and say, "My wife makes soap! ... And I get to sell it for her." That usually broke the ice in a nice way. I invited them...

I have thought about making soap on a rope, but using a short nylon strap instead. And maybe including the buckle on the stap as a gimmick. I would call it "Tactical Soap On A Rope". "Whether you are jumping out of a helicopter or climbing down a sheer cliff, you can't afford to lose your...

For our first year or so, we cured and stored our soap in our home, and the air was always room temperature. But early this year, we moved the soap to a room in another building for curing and storage. From spring to fall, we used a fan for circulation and temperature control, and it worked...

Your big box hardware store might have "Spanish Red". It is iron oxide for giving a red color to concrete.

Okay, once I have a demo on the Internet, I will be ready for feedback. Right now, I am going slowly and working on the things on my priority list. I am sure others will have ideas for features I have not thought of. Sounds good! So far, I have three modules. "Batch" shows all the ingredients...

I put the scale in a glass casserole dish in case of spills, and for the very small spills, I think I just left the lye crystals there to decompose to sodium carbonate. The larger spill was several ounces, and it got all over my work bench. I had been using PETE bottles for my lye and they...

I mix the lye for my wife, and I consider this the most critical step. I use a 3M full face respirator with N95 filters and long green chemical gloves. A 3M rep told me that N95 would be fine for NaOH fumes. When the lye has cooled, my wife uses ordinary nitrile gloves and chemical eye...

Wow! Those prices are great. But shouldn't that make me suspicious? Thanks!

I have a problem... My wife had just used the last of the lavender oil and asked me to order more. Okay, no problem. This one was Majestic Pure brand, but I have bought Now and Radha from Amazon as well. So I am about to re-order the Majestic Pure brand, and I read some reviews that strongly...

I will put up a demo for people to play with, but I have no interest in hosting. I would help others install it on their hosting, though. It will be a small number of PHP files and it will use the host's MySQL server. I will probably make it free on github, since I use git for version control...