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For those of you who add pumice to your bars, what size of particles do you use? I did see that Wholesale supply particle size is #0-1/2--I think that means very fine particles suitable for gentle exfoliation.

I found this lovely recipe while looking for something soap-related. It has complete instructions. "A skin moisturizing, nutritive, and healing cream is produced by blending a predominant quantity of juices from an avocado, cucumber, lady's mantle or burdock, red clover, and white willow and...

Since starting this journey, I seem to be all about reading ingredients on soap! I found Vaseline Soap, and checked out the ingredients. I didn't find any "Vaseline"--which is a petroleum product (Petroleum jelly, petrolatum, white petrolatum, soft paraffin, or multi-hydrocarbon, CAS number...

I've seen so much information on using leaf/kidney fat for soap, and other information saying fat is fat, use it all. I've been using all fats, just combining and rendering. But now I want to know more. I've found this tidbit: "The difference between hard muscle fat and kidney fat may not...

My soap is turning pink too (previous thread in April about pink soap)! It happened after emulsification, and I had let it set for less than one minute while I put in additives. I've been using tallow for my soap but am using lard right now, so that was one big change I made. The other was I...

I'm using the wonderful SoapmakingFriend calculator to get my recipes nailed down, and my last batch was too big. So I tried using the option to calculate oil volumes by mold dimensions. It almost doubled the amount of oil I was previously using. From 53.3 oz to 99.96 oz. I originally...

I purchased the 10# jug of lye from Lehman's and I've used it twice. Here are my thoughts: First: 10# in a small mouth jug is just too unwieldy! No problem--poured some into a Belle Chemical bottle I had saved. Second: Very low to no airborne particles when pouring lye from the storage...

Has anyone here used potters' clay to make forms to cast soap stamps out of resin? I would like to make a stamp using a branch from a shrub (I've seen this done, so I'm not too crazy), but the finished product was cast in plaster of Paris, not resin. I can't find anything about using actual...

My first bottle of lye was Red Crown, and when I tried to replace it, I couldn't find it so I purchased Belle Chemical. I've found the BC to get much more airborne when I measure it out, so I would like to find something else (I do wear a mask, but not a serious filtering one.) I've found...

Just came out a couple of days ago. Kind of nice.

I just received my fragrance oils and they shipped in plastic bottles. That's fine since it saves considerably on shipping. But I read this blog by Soap Queen https://www.soapqueen.com/bath-and-body-tutorials/tips-and-tricks/undiluted-fragrance-oils-molds/ that warns of the dangers of...

I was looking into the price of Rice Bran Oil since it's supposed to be an affordable substitute for Olive Oil, and I've found the prices fluctuate wildly--from as low as 17.99/gal from Amazon, to 29.99 at Tractor Supply (equine nutritional supplement). Then I found it is 11.99 at Smart...

I acquired a lovely vintage Pyrex casserole with an etched top from an estate sale. It had the normal nasty baked on grease in the lovely design, and I wanted to restore it to it's pristine state. The wonderful people at Corning actually have a museum and museum website, and the conservator...

My 100% tallow soap took forever to trace, and only after I put the bowl in hot water. 0% superfat 129.37 g lye 300 g water 2 lbs tallow After trace, 45 g water 2 tsp sugar 0.2 oz citric acid Combined at temps 117 for tallow, 120 for lye solution Stick and hand mixed for over 30 minutes...

I've just learned that my great niece has to go to her g grandma's house to use bar soap (mom just has liquid soap), and it quite enamored with the whole hand washing process. She's 2 1/2, so I know her little hands can't handle commercial-size bars, and I think an olive oil bar would be too...

I've been lurking for a couple of weeks, and I am amazed at all the wonderful and helpful people on this forum. Currently have an olive oil and co batch I'm using and loving it. Batch of tallow soap one week old aging on the counter. Besides the waiting to use the soap, I'm finding sourcing...

Tallow does trace slow, lard even slower. The temps slowed it down too. Thats the same recipe I use often except I use lard instead of tallow, its a nice soap. My soap is taking forever to come to trace (100% tallow). I've only made olive oil soap so far, and it behaved just like all the...