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I'm still trying to wrap my head around how so many people equate natural with good-for-you. People worry about the lye, is it natural, is it ok? Remember folks, Cobra venom is 100% natural. So how did the phrase "natural" become synonymous with "healthy"? It can't all be good marketing...

I just read a post by Justpeachy stating: How do you add yogurt? What would the SAP value be? How do you calculate the weight and is it a bonus ingredient added at trace or a decent percentage of the soap ingredients? Is it weird that this is the most excited I've been all day?

Does anyone else think that this stuff smells like iced tea? Because it sure does to me... Kinda yummy. I'm really starting to like palmarosa oil, and it's my DH's favorite.

OK, the DH has that weird guy thing of acne-on-the-butt. Does anyone have any recommendations as to some oils to work into the soaps and some percentages to help with this? On a similar note, I just made some soap with Neem Oil, boy, is that stuff stinky! It was only 10% of the oils, but...

Alright folks, is this going to work like I think it might or have I had a major logic accident and missed something obvious? Here it goes: I mixed together a batch of soap, a basic test batch with 38% water (which soapcalc tells me will work for both CP and HP), poured half into some...

Well, I've finally gotten all my ingredients in and made a couple of small batches of cp soap...now what? I can't tell how they will be for at least 3 weeks! So I don't know what I might be doing wrong or not, or how exactly the different oils and such will feel upon using. I guess...