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So, I'm not really planning on doing a lip balm soon, but I had a thought that is sticking in my brain. You see, I had enough trouble just pouring the melted lotion bar and deodorant into 2.2 fl oz twist tubes from the Crock Pot without spilling it. How on earth would you get it into a teeny...

Summon @DeeAnna. :) So, I think I'm getting a better understanding of the chemistry involved in soap, but I got to thinking about something yesterday and it got me wondering. So here's how I got there (and please let me know if I'm misunderstanding any of this): 1. Someone said in a thread...

Hello again all. Friday night I did my "second" HP batch (I use quotes because it was my first batch that was done properly and wasn't a complete disaster, see my previous thread for details). Everything went pretty much as expected, except that it took 3 hours to reach the "mashed potato"...

Well, I've mentioned in a couple of other threads that I was trying a shaving soap tonight. Recipe as follows: 5.8 oz Stearic Acid (51.8%) 4.8 oz Coconut Oil (42.9%) 0.6 oz Shea Butter (5.4%) 0.5 oz Powdered Goat Milk 1.7 oz Glycerin 0.3 oz Almond FO 2.3 oz Lye (All KOH, 8.4% discount) 11 oz...

Being as I like to experiment, I came up with an idea. I found this recipe for lotion bars: https://www.mommypotamus.com/lotion-bar-recipe/ My thought is to scale the recipe back some and add about an ounce of magnesium hydroxide powder to turn this into deodorant. I've been spraying my...

Hello all. I'm Nate. I'm an electrical engineer in the Tulsa area. I started making cold-process soap about three weeks ago. I've already tried some of my creations (which if you do the math and hold fast to a cure time of at least 4 weeks, you can see that I'm already breaking the rules) but...

Hello all, I'm new to the forum. I started making soap about 3 weeks ago and done a few batches of hard soap. I'm impatient and didn't exactly wait long enough for curing before trying some of my creations, but aside from the bars not being as hard as they could be I've been pretty happy with...