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I was wondering if anyone has any experience with any chemical supply houses out in the bay area (which is where I am conveniently located!) I have been able to find caustic soda in 50# increments for around $100 but I know that essential depot sells it for less than this you just get owned from...

I was going to say the same thing everyone else did, too heavy a trace. When I do swirls (and there is really no sure fire way to be consistent with them) I do in the pot swirls at a really light trace. Just throw in your color (premixed) and give it ONE stir with a spoon and pour. However...

Thanks! I'm going to try to woo some other bed and breakfasts with some tea tree and unscented bars with a similar (obviously unbranded) design. I do need to get a small soap stamp... Back to anhoki eventually, haha.

Right after I posted I thought you might have meant that. 2.5"x1.5"x.5"

Thanks guys! Each is 1.5 oz.

A bed and breakfast that has had my soap recently ordered 90 guest bars (hooray!) and they are finally ready to ship off. I used glassine bags to hold the bars, and I designed a label (all within a 1.2" space) with their name, the fragrance and goats milk, and my website. I put my logo (a...

I soap around 100-110, except a few that must be done cold. I always add scents at light trace. I doubt it overheated as the fragrance is the same, the bars were still soft, and it didn't wrinkle. I get one or all of those if my bars overheated unless this is a new symptom. As for...

I recently modified my recipe to go all veggie oils. Its made with Palm oil, coconut, rice bran, shea, and castor. I have made 4 batches of soap with this the exact same way I have (of course I modified lye for different sap levels.) 4 different fragrances (or EO FO mixes.) Ginger Orange...

If enough people are interested, I will write up some plans for free.

This is all nailed together with a nail gun. Not a single screw. Materials wise this was 1 4x8 sheet of plywood, and about 24 8 foot pine 1x2s. I could have bought 2x4's and ripped those up but it would have added a lot more time to the build. This guy went together in about 3 hours by myself...

If you are making different colors then It is a good idea to do that, unless the colors are subtle. Just keep a container of hot water close by and dip your stick blender in that and pulse it up to clean it off. With really fresh soap it will only take a few seconds.

I TOTALLY did not read masterbatching as masterbatching. Moving along... I was unfamiliar with the term and I did a quick google and I found very little about it. I think more importantly than whether or not it is reliable is why you would want to do this? Do you want to be able to soap more...

Wood on wood rubbing will not make dust unless you do it quite vigorously. For the first couple months you may get some flakes, but after a while it gets smooth. There is a technique to give hardwoods a sheen without a finish and it takes rubbing two pieces of the hardwood together. Its called...

Who says you have to superfat the other oils? Superfatting means MOAR FATS! Take your recipe, figure out your lye mixture etc for what your soap is. If you are using soap calc, put the superfat at zero precent. Add the extra coconut after your other oils trace. DON'T FORGET TO ADD THE OILS...

I have wanted to do just this! Looks awesome. Great job.

I am looking for 1.5 ounce guest bars. Previously I quartered my standard bars and it worked nicely. but they are sorta thick and unwieldy. I have seen that bed and breakfast soap cutter. I have built my own tank style cutter and I was really trying to not do that again. But the cost of that...

Heck no do I need that much space! But having the space is what is more important, am I right? This is a lot of storage in a very small area, that also doubles as a place to make and cut soap. Previous to this I would make the soap on the side of the house, allow it to set inside the house, cut...

I normally make bars from wooden loaves like many of you on here, but I just got an order from a bed and bath that I make soap for for 100 guest bars. I was wondering if you have any particular molds that you use to make your guest bars, or if you just cut up your standard bars? I have seen the...

I do like beeswax, but I decided to go with the lacquer because I am partial to it (it must be the fumes that draw me back.)

Well, my bars are pretty firm once I cut them. I haven't noticed anything from the mesh so far. The wire mesh would give more surface area for the soap to sit on as well, so It would be less likely to mar the soap with smaller holes.