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I want to make a menthol and lime soap; but information on how to use the crystals - how best to melt them, when to incorporate them and amount to use seems thin on the ground. All advice welcome.

I have some old soaps that have been sitting around in the open air. For instance, I have pure olive oil soap bars that are over a year old - so it's well cured. Today I noticed that the top of it (the side that would have been the top in the mould) was really moist. The other sides were fine...

I'm planning on making a soap specifically for the face, and want it to be as non drying as possible. So thought of adding some extra glycerine. I know it will make the soap softer, and also don't want to add so much that the soap attracts moisture like M & P soaps do. Has anyone done this and...

I'm new to lotions and potions. I have made a few tested by family and friends, and they really liked them. I just used mixtures of oils and butters, no water. Is it necessary to use preservatives if no water is used? Also, I used tapioca flour to reduce oilyness, but found in some of the...

This is an idea of mine for Christmas, with Frankincense and Myrrh EOs. Anyone tried this? If so, how/when did you add it, and what were the results.

Does anyone know what each of these do in a soap, and what kind of quantities one would use?

I never heard of this before coming on this forum.

Just made my first salt soap tonight. I read somewhere on here that you should unmould and cut after 2-4 hours. It is now 2 hours and it is pretty hot. If it is still hot after 4 hour do I still unmould??

I have had nothing but disaster with goat's milk (apart from one freak batch which was lovely). I tried it again yesterday; 1700g oils. I made the lye with half the water and added 20g (3 tablespoons) of dried goats mild to the rest of the water. I then added the goats milk mix to the oils and...

I have a bottle of this, but as it's quite pricey, I have held back from using it. What qualities does it add to soap, and what percentage would you recommend?

Is there anything that can be done to lower the Ph so that the soap is closer to neutral?

I put about 20 chopped up vanilla pods in a litre of olive oil for a few weeks, shaking it up now and again. Smells gorgeous. Does anyone know whether the smell will hold up in cold process....and whether it will turn the soap brown. I was hoping to use it in goatsmilk soap.....but most people...

I recently took out some old soaps which I had stored unwrapped in a plastic drawer (not airtight). There was an unpleasant smell, like out of date oil. The worst affected were ones in which I had used a natural colourant of liquid chlorophyll extract. I have other soaps over a year old (i.e...