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So I keep reading that you need to have a complete melt pool, but for some reason I cant get this one to make a full pool. This is parafin, and yes my wick is slightly off, but after several hours on two days, this is as far as it goes. Once the candle burns more I dont know if it will melt the...

I keep a note on my phone with all the batches I have made so far. I started it to know when i would be able to use it, so, naturally, i noted the date and a brief description of the soaps to know which is which. Well, as I was adding todays couple of soaps to the list, i noted that my first...

Okay, so I honestly dont know what it is but my last few batches of soap have all ended up beign scratchy when i didnt mean them to. Is not too bad to be unusable but i wanted some smooth soaps and for some reason they all end up scratchy. When tou see them they look fine, if you tilt them you...

Sooo.... i finally got cocoa butter and I was tinkering with % and i am not sure what to do. What do you think about this recipe I just came up with? 5% Castor 5% Almond 10% Cocoa butter 20% Coconut 30% Olive 30% Palm Should I give it a go? Should I up the Olive and lower the Palm? What do you...

So since the family is now on the know about my soapmaking hobby, an aunt ask about the soap and said she was interested in trying it, we chatted a bit about soap and it turns out she is alergic to coconut and my recipe (and all that i have done in the past) contain coconut. That made me wonder...

I dont know, its getting addicting, and since this soaps are old enough to store on their wrapping and because it was really getting hard to remember what went in which soap, i decided the tiny pictures was a good idea. And now I want to make another soap with different ingredients and make a...

This are for my salt soaps, I think they look cute. I made the drawings.

I’m sorry I cant quite figure out how to ask this and thus i cant google my answer!! It is a question that is driving me crazy. So, sodium palmitate is the salt that results from the reaction with palm oil, right? What are the names of the other commonly used oils once transformed in to soap...

I dont know how relevant this is or exactly where to post it but I though some might find it interesting given that some choose to use palm oil on soaps and some dont. Hope its okay to post...

I made a batch of salt bars using 100% coconut oil that i loved and then i made another batch using coconut, olive and castor... and was not impressed. So i was wondering what oils do you like to add to your salt bars besides the coconut. To me the bars with olive and castor lack that fluffy...

Please bear with me. I have been reading, researching and thinking a lot this past week because i have not been soaping (i have a lot of bars curing and I’m running out of space!) so that left my mind go free... and here are the questions i have. Well, the first one is not exactly a question...

i found some cute cupcake silicone molds that i thought would make some cute soaps (and also small) and since I was making salt bars and coconut bars i thought it was better to have individual cups instead of trying to cut the bars. So here they are. I think they turned out quite cute. The...

Hello! So my best friend learned that i am making soaps so he instantly told me that he would like me to make a coconut and oatmeal soap for him. Now, i know he doesnt know anything about soaps so i asked him why he wants a coconut and oatmeal soap and he basically just said that cococut and...

So since i started soaping (two months ago give or take) i started toying with the idea of making some single oil soaps to try and see how they are different, and today i finally did it. They are super small batches (200g each) and I’m quite happy with the results as of right now. I made a 100%...

Okay so since I’m very new to this I am still trying to get a grasp on the basic concepts of soaps and soap making in general. And this is something i still dont quite get. I get that a lot of people think of a mild soap as a soap that has a low or neutral ph. But i also get that a soap can not...

Hello everybody! So, story time. About two years ago I came across some youtube videos of people making their own soap. They seemed kinda easy and hard at the same time. Easy because they were making HP soap and it looked to me like they were basically cooking oils and adding lye. Hard because...