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I recently used various fragrance oils, professional grade, from a local soap and candle warehouse for people who do this for a living. Since any of my FOs ALWAYS are not even noticeable by the time the 2-week "airing out/curing" process ends (until they are wet again, and then only faint...

Hi friends! This may or may not be a problem. My soapmaking workshop moved from my basement in Illinois to a cupboard in my new garage in California. I always had fairly dense coconut oil that required some time to melt with the harder butters, etc. that any recipe called for. Now, all my...

Alas! In my six years of less-than-illustrious amateur soap making adventures, I realized that the thing I like least is cleaning up everything when the fun is over and while, in theory, my lovely CP is entering into gel phase. I clean up unwillingly, often the next day. After all, I reason, it...

Hi all, I made a batch of CP yesterday from a very familiar recipe I've used many times, but we moved so it was created in a different climate now. I don't know if that's why, but I created a huge ugly batch. Why did this happen? The recipe (from Wellness Mama for "Rose Soap" - which is the...

I diluted just 2 measly teaspoons of Crafter's Choice Matte Black Oxide pigment in 2 T of Sweet Almond Oil. Now I have Black Oxide all over my silicone tools, plastic bowls, scrub brushes, two wash cloths, my gloves, my mold...anything made from plastic and/or silicone that it touched. I can't...

THIS IS SUPER FREAKY! I love my mica colors - so pretty. But I happened onto an article online and then fell into an internet rabbit hole and what I learned is that (?!?!?!) most mica is mined in India, often by indigent kids under age 14. There are huge dangers and a high death rate for...

Hi there - I've got "aging skin" since I'm post-menopause, age 56. I saw a YouTube video with some Russian woman (completely unrelated to soaping!) who said to use "a little olive oil with some drops of essential oil in it" as a face moisturizer. Well, she was probably in her mid-40s when she...

Hello all, I'm sort of intermediate as a soaper, don't do it commercially. However, I'm dogged by this issue: my friends and family have asked me to STOP using black as a colorant in all my soaps, because it smudges on their skins and weeps all over their bathrooms. I've tried charcoal AND...

I've made about 25 batches over 2 years. I've collected recipes from various books and websites, some by AnnMarie. There are a few I like well enough, although many of them seem to have one problem or another: they distort the mica colors when added; they dissolve too quickly (less than 2...

Hello everyone! I'm getting deeper into soap making *thank you Covid-19* and I'm trying to find a good supplier for Rose essential or fragrance oil. When I began, I bought a big brown jar of it, but along the way I used it up and now I cannot figure out where I bought it nor whether it was...

You know how Ann Marie talks about diffusing X tsp of mica in X T of some kind of oils, often sweet almond? When I am using a NON-Brambleberry recipe, I don't know how to decide whether I should... Use a portion of the lightest oil already included in the recipe to dissolve Add a portion in a...