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Anybody used/use's bee propolis in their hand/body/heel balms? I'm looking to add to my range of soaps and body balms and have made a few batches of balm using bee propolis from a local bee keeper. It definitely adds a unique aroma to the balm! It also has a good reputation for it's...

Wonder if anyone can help. I've been making soap for 18 months and selling for the last 3 months and doing ok. (all safety tested and registered with the EU portal) Made some lip balm for family and then made some heel balm for my wife, and very nice it is too! Found the recipes were basically...

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Is there a reason why EO is recommended to be added at trace? Would it make any difference if I added with the oils before adding lye? Just thinking it's one thing less to think about when getting the batter to trace.

Where do you buy your olive oil? I find that soap suppliers oo is really expensive so I buy mine from Aldi at £2.89 a litre. It's a blend of refined oo and voo @ 3%. It's a nice light colour and makes a near white bar. I think lidl do one at a similar price.

I'm looking to get ready to start selling my soaps and I'm in the process of registering my products (I'm only making CP soap) with the EU Cosmetic Products Notification Portal. As with all government departments, it's a bit of a minefield! Has anyone on here completed it? My main question (up...

My new batch with rosemary and peppermint eo with powdered parsley. All natural goodness!

Just made a batch of coconut milk soap with lemongrass and cinnamon eo, sliced it and found these orange patches on some of the slices, which I assume is DOS. What I'm thinking has caused it is a newly opened tub of palm oil which instead of being easy to scoop out, was very hard and brittle...

This was a question I asked in another thread, so I thought I'd throw it out there! Apologies if this has been asked before. Do you make soaps Palm oil free? If you sell soap, do people ask if your soap is palm free? If you are palm free, what do you substitute? All my recipes use palm oil, and...

Hi guys I don't post that often, but I log in and read recent posts pretty regularly. Always something new to learn! (loving the new soap calculator thread!) Anyway, I've been experimenting with natural colouring for my soap. I have infused paprika and turmeric in oil. Left infusing for about 3...

Hi everyone I have made a few batches of cp soap, all basically same recipe (OO, Rapeseed, PO, CO and one with castor), all made using superfatting and lye concentration recommendations from Soapcalc. Still curing, but have tried a couple and I'm very pleased with the results. :) Question is...

Here are some pics from my first ever CP soap. Both recipes used OO, PO, CO and rapeseed oil in the same quantities but in the 2nd I used coconut milk to replace the water. No colours or fragrance used. As you can see the first one is a lovely creamy yellow, but the coconut milk one hasn't fully...

Great site, lots of good advice. Just made my first 2 batches, 1st one just OO, PO, CO, and Canola(rapeseed oil) and the 2nd same recipe but used coconut milk. 1st ready to slice, 2nd just made and gelling nicely!