Search results

Hey all, So recently I've taken to making salt bars - just before lockdown I found a lot of very, very cheap coconut oil on sale locally so it seemed like the right thing to do 😎 Now, I made a salt loaf for the first time around a year ago (80% CO, 15% OO, 5% Castor, with 50% of oil weight as...

Hi all! Just a simple question for those of you who use arrowroot in your lotion bars/body butters: How much do you prefer to use? I've had a look around and seen usage rates all the way from 1/16th tsp to 2 tbsp per 100g! I'll of course be having a play about myself - but what do you...

'ello all, hope you're having a great Easter ;) My gripe for the week - I have these little silicone ice cube trays I picked up cheap from a charity shop about a year ago with fun shapes, and wanted to use them to make CP embeds Now a year ago I had no problem. They came out great. It's a...

A few hours? Days? Weeks, even? Anyone had any experience CPOPing even after your batch has hardened? I've got some colours that might need rescuing with a short stint in the oven lol :D

Hi all! So I've got a CP soap planned for tomorrow that has some peppermint scented embeds throughout (I thought the soap dough I used was unscented but alas, I was wrong), so I could do with a blend that would work with the peppermint and not end up smelling like soap layered with toothpaste...

Please bear with my garbled question, I've not had my coffee yet but wanted to ask the question before I forget :D I've finally got some annatto seeds, and I have a buttery-yellow swirl planned for my next soap My question - if I added some infused olive oil to a portion of my batter...

I wanted to have a go at a 'banana bread soap' like this one I found on my internet travels: http://bullesetmolecules.blogspot.com/2012/04/banana-bread-soap.html Used my basic high-olive recipe as I know cinnamon leaf oil can accelerate like hell, added about an ounce of banana puree blended...

Hi all, I'm the kind of soaper who is constantly forgetting to add their fragrance to their batch and ends up glopping back into the bowl to remix it in. It's chronic, I hate it :D Hard to forget the colourant though! So, I was thinking, instead of using water/oils from the batch to disperse...

Hi all, Thinking up some floral / fresh blends (I'm super stoked for spring to come rolling round, feels like it's been winter forever, amirite?) and thought this sounds like a nice blend - anyone got any ideas on the ratios? I know you're gonna say "just try it out and see" but unfortunately...

Hello all, I've done a lot of reading on soap dough, and had a couple of quesitons that I couldn't find the answers to on my internet adventures :D Fragrance - can I knead fragrance/essential oils into the dough on a project-by-project basis? From what I can see people either add fragrance to...

Hi all, So I went and splashed out on some unrefined cocoa butter for lotion bars cause I want that beautiful chocolatey scent But - disaster! I'm melting it, and melting it, and melting it in a double boiler for half an hour and there are still crystals. I fish some out as that doesn't seem...

Hi all, I came across this product: https://moodessentialoils.co.uk/products/comforting-essential-oil-set-vanilla-coconut-and-coffee And was under the impression that you couldn't really get essential oils from these plants. Or if you could, they were extremely expensive. Am I wrong? This...

Hi all! I want to start doing some nice labels for my soaps, but getting everything onto such a small label is proving to be a bit tricky (I only do small bars so far) - I don't want to make the font too small to read! I've started putting things like "Essential oils (Lavender, Bergamot...

So I have some himalayan salt bars that I'm really not happy with, but can't bear to throw out - I can't remember where I saw it (and can't seem to find the thread) but heard that you can grind them down fine to use as a scrub I'm guessing you would need to add some oil to bring it all...

In short, I added waaay to much red clay into my bars and they're bleeding colour like anything - if I rebatched, could I add fresh CP batter to the mix to dilute the colour some? Is that a thing? Would I pretty much end up hot processing? (Which I have never done before) Normally I'd just use...

Hi all, My salt bars are a whole 7 weeks old, and I've been waiting for a sunny day to get my photos done and uh, well: What on earth is going on here? It's like the salt grains have sucked out all the pigment around them. It doesn't look as bad when wet, but looks exactly the same when it...

Hi all, My current conundrum is this - I'm drawing up some designs for new soaps, which would require a small layer of blue on the top. Now, I only use natural colourants in my soap, and want to experiment with mixing indigo in with my lye water (as it turned very grey when mixed with oil and...

Hi all, I'm trying to find a lotion bar recipe with the following ingredients in gram form: Coconut oil Shea butter Candelilla wax I kinda found one but the numbers didn't seem to line up: https://howbeautifullifeis.com/recipe/all-natural-moisturising-lavender-lotion-bars-recipe/ Thought I'd...

Hi all, I'm planning on a seaside/rockpool inspired soap, but I'm not sure what sort of essential oils to scent it with, anyone got any ideas? At most I'd want to use about 3 in a blend - all ideas welcome, thanks! :D

Hi guys! I've just bought some reef clay in an attempt to get a nice, deep red naturally, but can't seem to find a usage rate along with a picture. Only ever one or the other :D So, any of you who have used red Australian reef clay in soap, how much did you use? And do you have a picture? I'd...