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I am not talking about what oils you use for your soaps, but what straight up carrier oils (and/or essential oils you add) that you like to use in an oil cleansing method. I am out of pretty much everything except a little bit of my emu oil which I love but don’t use it for cleansing just as a...

I am looking to get some beeswax (lotion bars) and Citric acid (bombs) and wondered what is a good price for things? I am not looking in huge volumes, just to make for fun with my kids and to give to family. I have other stuff already due to being a soaper. I just want to make sure that I am...

I have a whole bunch of cocoa butter that is not deoderized and I need help figuring what EOs might smell good mixed together. I have done orange and the chocolate scent but beyond that...I am just stumped. Any ideas?

I have been absent for over a year from soap Making, so feeling a little unsure about myself. I want to make a few different soaps to use up oils before going bad. What I have: Lard, Avocado, CO, castor (limited), cocoa butter to use up. I don’t mind doing the cocoa in a higher amount just...

I am doing some searches to learn about bath salts. I make soap and use EOs, so I am familiar with most products and safe usage. My question—all the searches for recipes/tutorials show straight EO with the salt/dry ingredients rather then adding carrier oils. That seems wrong, is it? Do...

I have made a wonderful shave soap, got him a decent low end brush and my husband has decided that he might be interested in real razors and I can't remember any of the forums to start looking at and hope one you guys see my post and can direct me. Thanks!

So I dropped and skewered for the first time and my bars cracked and were splitting while I cut. I used a big knife and cut the first bar at about 19 hrs and it was too soft, so I waited another 5 and finished cause they seemed harder.... This is the recipie. 75%lard 10% Cocoa Butter...

I am about the hit the kitchen and finally whip my first batch of shaving soap and since I was thinking about the hot process that I will be doing for the first time, I started to wonder if I use an Citrus EO, will it not fade as bad as CP? My husband really likes orange and I thought it...

I feel like a grown up soaper today. I have always been using the 38% preset of full water and since I want my soap to gel and all my soaps have been soo soft at the 24 hr mark, I decided to do what I have been reading forever....lye concentration (30 or 33% was the last I had read as a...

I get my EOs and some carrier oils in a Facebook group buy and now have found the group buy place for micas (micas and more), and wondered, is there anyone out there that knows of Fragrance oil group buys??? I am a hobbyist, so, I don't want to spend TOO much money on it, and can't order in...

So, I made 2 soaps yesterday and one came out fine, a little soft after 24hr so I am letting it set longer, especially since I un molded too soft stuff last time and they looked crummier then I'd like. The second has golden droplets like dew on top after 15 hrs or so...darn it they zapped me...

I didn't expect for my soaps to be so soft today when I cut it at the 20-24 hr mark today. My first was a coconut milk soap with cornmint/peppermint eo 75 lard 15 CO 5 Coco butter 5 Castor 5%SF 800g total oil weight 24g fragrance (first time I actually used the soapcalc this but most of mine...

How does Apple cider do in CP soap? I would treat it like beer and freeze it as well substitution for the water Have you done this? how does the soap come out?

A while back I made three different recipes and have been using them for about two weeks. I made the original Genny formula, variation with 2% CO, and a version with 5% co. Sf at 5 I used sugar in all but the original, but that was completely by accident! I have found that they are all very...

I finally decide to join the inverted stamping challenge. I decide on my recipe. I made my stamp. I started dragging out all my stuff and had it all set up and start to tare my scale. ONLY Half the screen shows up. AHHHHH are you KIDDING ME!!!??? I have been waiting to soap for about...

So I have been testing lots of different recipes but want to do the inverting stamping challenge and want to have a faster moving recipe then I have experienced so far. Even my Milk honey oat didn't go too fast.... So I did some research on the oil properties to make sure that I was heading...

I am going to make the shave soap from the giant thread and use all KOH recipe and to make the right kind of lather from a brush, what kind of container should I use? I have several already that I have found and gathered at the 50% off Goodwill from time to time to make whipped butters to...

So, I have made stable soaps, like how they feel, (although still experimenting!) but I want to do colors. I need white I need a blue (denim like preferred) A red A Pink A purple Green (more natural looking) I don't want to do clays for color (although I will try once with this...

I have got to try again on my milk honey oat, but I haven't yet decided on where and what fragrance to buy and want to soap today...well, tonight actually. So, I have a decent selection of EOs and want to try again on the milk honey oat soap. Making it with beef tallow (rendered myself--never...

I am a EO user and own a lot. So when I started making soap, I used those. However, since I have been reading a lot here, I feel that I can make a few soaps with FO and feel safe trying them, but since I do have a family of sensitive skins...(not mine, just DH and kiddos) I will make most with...