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Hi folks, long time no see! I've been chugging along on my massive backlog of soap and tried-and-tested shampoo etc recipes for a while and haven't had a chance to drop in here, but I'm off on holiday soon and I want to make a solid conditioner bar to bring with me, rather than my usual liquid...

Something of a passing thought, but I'm sure there are experts on the forum who can weigh in :) We have a second hand leather sofa badly in need of care. It was recoloured at some time before we got it, from a warm mid-brown to a dark almost black brown. I'm not sure exactly how it was done...

This may be a strange request for feedback since I've already made this and I like it, but the world of syndets is still a bit new and scary to me so I'd like either some reassurance or a nudge in the right direction here. This recipe originated when my mum was visiting - I'd promised her we'd...

Starting a thread here to be polite and not start/contribute to another detour. I was already suffering from semantic satiation but this was the last straw... 🤣

So this is a weird one, and may be just my overactive imagination, but is it possible to feel a 'zap' from unsaponified soap on your hands, and through gloves? When I was doing this last night, I was wearing nitrile gloves the whole time. I was using an unfamiliar blender, which a couple of...

Curious as to whether anyone on this forum uses/is familiar with this? I've been buying supplies from Aroma-Zone (French website) recently and they have a lot of really interesting recipes (although their soap recipes don't seem great, but many of the others have really good reviews.) I bought...

3d printer! o_O I was so close to getting a cricut machine... Then I took a step back and thought a bit more. I've been wanting a 3d printer for many many years, whereas I only heard of cricut on this forum recently. Also I have some pretty decent 3d skills, and I think in the long run I'll...

Right. I've learned how to make some lotions and I'm happy with how they came out. I also made a simple shampoo bar (minus the keratin) and that's fine as a starting point too (although maybe a bit too cleansing, I don't think my hair has ever been so squeaky clean!). I want to make a...

In 3 weeks' time we should be welcoming some new additions to our flock 🥰 There's something magical to me about hatching, I can't wait!

Has anyone used the site shop.skinchakra.eu? They seem to have a wide range of products and reasonable shipping but their website quality is a little bit off-putting. Would be good to know if they're legit and reliable.

Along with the gardener's soap I made a while back, I also made a balm to go alongside to help with the moisturising and help with any odd scratches. I'm generally happy with it, but I have a nagging feeling that it could be improved. It's a touch too hard for my liking, and also a little on...

I planted up these pots at the end of last year when I was having a really rough time. It took me days just to plan which bulbs would go in which pot, and days more to get them planted up with my husband's help. But it was so worth it, every time I go in or out of the house, I take a pause to...

Backstory: my brother's birthday is coming up in a little over a month and I'd like to make him something nice (as well as expanding my soaping skills!) Mum reckons he wouldn't like a solid bar, and he's also been having trouble with his skin so I'd like to make a very gentle shower cream soap...

Hopefully I'll be getting a big haul of fat from the butcher this week, which I'll want to get rendered down ASAP. I've also done a review of my recipes and identified a short list of regulars that I'll probably stick to for the most part, so I was thinking it would make sense to make a...

Ok this may sound like a weird question but bear with me! I really want to try this woodgrain soap where she uses a discolouring fragrance to produce the effect: However, on reflection, the only discolouring FO I have is Hot Buttered Rum, which really doesn't seem appropriate for wood 🤔...

“If you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first invent the universe.” ― Carl Sagan, Cosmos The plan for today was to make a simple striped egg soap for Easter. But then I remembered the cardboard box I've been using to stabilise the small moulds is bowing, and I didn't want...

I have some ugly loaf ends and other lumpy soaps that I've been saving to try felting with. I knit and spin so there's plenty of roving around, but I've never done needle felting before so was looking at the options. Most of the felting needles I can find are made of iron (where it's specified...

Good news, I managed to get a recipe which stays fluid for swirls, bad news, with new success comes new problems... Oh wait, wrong thread! Basically, I unmoulded this soap this morning (24 hour wait, which is massive for me!) after CPOP covered in cling film and cooling all night. It was quite...

I'd love some thoughts and feedback on using this as a hot process recipe. Soapmaking Recipe Builder & Lye Calculator - basic oil breakdown based on the recipe by @AliOop in the notes. A few motivations behind this: I've never made a solid soap by HP and I'm curious to try. Some of the videos...

People who render your own lard/tallow/etc, do you have any uses for the waste water? I hate to waste anything and after taking the solidified tallow off the top, there remains a quantity of water which clearly has a lot of fat dispersed in it. Given the salt content I can't give it to the...