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Someone donated a mystery box of oil to me. It's 50 lbs in a columbus foods box. I think the person got rid of it because it is clearly mislabeled and they probably were not getting the results they expected. The box is coded that it contains 92 degree coconut. I have some 76 degree from...

After much thought and soap making. I am opening a mall cart in partnership with 4 other soapmakers. We got a great location at a great price. I am beyond excited because this will be a transition from one business into another. I have everything, I think, two forms of liability...

Against all advice I made soap with unrefined palm and TD and got the famous cheese-yellow soap I read about. It make the most neon yellow orange I've ever seen. So i made a batcch of soap with no color, added mill creek soywax keylime pie, and 10 oz of grated cheesy rebatch and my soap is...

Has anyone ever soaped their oils? I purchased some locally and am very pleased with the nag champa, there was a "massage oil" in nag champa that was imported that was so sweet i almost cried. The cheaper champa i purchaced is both soapy and exotic.

as a scent or as a percentage of the soap recipe. I am getting some request for black seed or black cumin oil. Anyone know anything about it?

Everytime I try to make over 120 oz of soap at a time I have an epic failure. Imagine the first batch palm, peanut oil, cocoa butter castor and coconut. I add 1/2 teaspoon of td and i/2 bottle of tkb neon yellow, fresh mashed avocado and coconut milk. I get the most brilliant creamy white...

I met a soap maker who claimed to boil her lye on the stove. The reason I ask is because I think she was lying and selling wholesale logs as her own. That I don't really care about I just want to know if placing lye on a stove with heat under it would cause a super deadly situation.

I met a family member of a soaper that passed away recently. The person had a huge assortment of melt and pour soap supplies. At least 1,000 melt and pour molds. Huge assortment of craft supplies incl wedding, bridal supplies and jewlery making equip. Perfer someone to grab up everything to...

What is my problem in trying to acheive green soap? Is the key not to add TD at all? I keep getting an ugly dull green with both micas and lab colors.

I am not a lotion maker, however I rubbed some palm oil on my hands and loved the feel of it. Anyone have any experience with palm oil in lotion?

I went to a craft market and had three different experiences with men selling batch and body, and was not completely comfortable with any of the techniques. First the hand-salt-scrub guy, he was so overtly sexual, I saw him make both husband and wife giggle. You know the guy who demonstrates...

after testing so many of my soaps, sometimes I feel a "build-up" and the need for a shower with a simple bar of dial soap. does anyone else reset their skin?

I've always used 76 degree coconut oil, I had to make a quick internet purchase and all the company had was fractionated coconut oil. I looked at the differences in properties on soap calc but is there anything I should watch out for to be different in my soap recipes?

I started too late in the evening making soap and by 12am, I put the crock pot on high and got on the computer. I usually hp on low but I felt I would kick start this batch with 30 minutes on high, 30 minutes on low. After the first 30 minutes I checked my crockpot, evidently it had...

I had both essential oils, lavender 40/42 and peppermint, I added .75 oz per lb to a cp batch. All I smell is peppermint, did I use too much?