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For you that wholesale your soap. What is the minimum amount of bars that you will do wholesale ? And the minimum of each scent. I have someone asking about my soaps and I told them 40 bar minimum to get the wholesale price, and 8 bar min of each scent. I don't do batches less than 8...

This is probably a crazy question. But could I add a couple of tsp of instant coffee at the end of the soap and still have the same effect as making it with brewed coffee ? I still want to use the raw coffee in the soap for exfoliating, but water instead of brewed coffee, and then...

Has anyone used Apple Pie fragrance to make soaps ? I purchased one that says soap safe, but it still smells a little spicy. Just wondering if I should proceed with caution......or maybe NOT proceed at all. It really smells good tho.....I would probably only use for hand soap or kitchen...

I am loving the Buttermilk soap I made a week or so back. The reason I didn't take a pic is because it had a few specks in it where I didn't get the powdered buttermilk to dissolve so well. But for the most part, it has been about 2 week and the soap is still pretty white. I didn't scent...

Lye under my thumbnail OOOOOOOOCH......and lingering OOOOOOOCH ! That don't go away with washing your hands...ouch again... I just bought me a new pair of gloves last night....looked at them, and didnt put them on. Can I say again.....OUCH....

I asked about the milk powders the other day, but noone ever answered ( I shamefully deleted my post....lol) I know... :roll: Anyway...tomorrow I am gonna do my regular recipe, and add some buttermilk powder at trace. I will reserve a little water with no lye to mix my BM. I'd...

Ok, this is probably stupid... :oops: I know some of you use powdered goats milk, what would it be like if you used regular powdered milk ? Would it benefit anything ? or make a difference of any kind in the soap ? I have a box here that I got when I went thru my homemade bread making...

Do you guys buy soaps from other soapers ? I have been dying to buy some soaps from etsy ..., probably some of your alls...lol. But...as a soaper...do you mind if other soapers buy your soap ? I would take it as a compliment ? But....I didnt know how other soapers felt. I have made...

What is in Fels Naptha soap, that is different than soap we would make ? I have never bought any.....just saw it was used for laundry. What would be a good handmade soap, that would compare to that ? I am thinking of making some laundry detergent. But I sure don't want to buy soap...

Ok, I think I am ok on yesterdays goats milk soap....... the orange is now a pretty tan color this morning...... smelled like ammonia when I cut it...hopefully that will fade. It was HP so I let hubby try a slither of it to wash his hands as a tester, he said he liked how it felt. Not sure...

:( My goats milk soap looks like carrot soap .... What is the trick to keeping that cream color ? I used canned goats milk ( All I had) and added the goats milk to the oils and SB to get it blended together before I added the lye water. As soon as I added the lye water, it turned...

Anyone got a good dog shampoo bar they might share ? I have a lady who has asked me about it. ( Its the same lady who bought 50 soaps last week...lol) So I would like to be able to start coming up with something nice that might work for her. Since we don't have dogs , I really don't...

I am just wondering when you gals do dark color soaps......does the color come off on your washcloth ? The reason I asked, is because I have got some soap from a friend, who does beautiful swirl CP soap. BUT the color in the swirls does come off on your wash cloth. ( I use a pouf....but...

There seems to be people from all over the world here ? Quite interesting, since I have only been in a few states my entire life. I am always intrigued by where people are from. Maybe let me see if I can ask where every one is from, and say it in a way that it will be soap related and not...

http://video.about.com/candleandsoap/Ma ... t-Milk.htm I thought this was informative about making goat milk soap, once you get past the infomercial.

NEVER try and do 6 crockpots full of soap at the same time.... I ended up with 5 instead of 6 , I gave up before the last pot, but , seemed like everything that could go wrong did....., I spilled, and messed, sloshed and splatterd....grabbed the wrong things. My phone kept ringing...

I have got some Rosemary Spearmint oil tha tI am wanting to soap, I also have some dried rosemary. Is it rosemary that looks like mouse poop after the soap cures ? or something else?

Somehow I have ended up with a bottle of these 2 oils ? Does anyone know what the benefits if any these oils have ? And it if is worth fooling with trying to work them into a recipe ?

Below is my pumpkin puree soap, kind of rustic looking. Smells good, bubbles like crazy. CPHP Then Peppermint Patty, it looks kind of rough and naked in the picture , sorry it is a little blurry...guess my eyes are bad...it seemed to look better in person..hahha , Also the chocoloate is...

When testing out different recipes, hubby said if you don't mark down the recipes with the soap that you are doing .......you will forget what they are made of. Well, Thats exactly what happened....:-) BUT then I remembered I had put pics up on the Photo Gallery...and YAY, I had also put...