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I'm getting frustrated this morning. :) Does anyone have tips and tricks for getting a straight line with a crinkle cutter? I don't play around with my crinkle cutter often but I decided to crinkle cut the sides of my latest batch of soap to add interest. I love the way it looks! BUT no...

I want to make a lemon soap and to my surprise I am not coming up with too much for a 100% straight up lemon EO or FO. Plenty of lemon blends, sure but nothing completely lemon. I found a Meyer Lemon one on Bramble Berry but it gets kind of mediocre reviews. Anyone know of a trusted supplier/a...

Hi all, I want to make a layered soap maybe with activated charcoal. I'd like each layer to look a little bit textured and rustic... specks on each layer of soap to give it a little more interest. I am wondering if I can achieve this with a little bit of activated charcoal mixed in at trace (not...

Hi all, I made a batch of soap yesterday and I have about 10 oz leftover from trimming it up. It is about probably 30 hours old now and is crumbly and sticky but will stick and hold if I really squish it together. It still is a little crumbly though from drying out a bit. I managed to roll it...

Hi all, I found a soap design with layering. I am looking forward to testing it out but one of the layers is very small, like 1 ounce of batter. I only have a large stick blender so that's not going to work. I'm wondering if anyone has had luck hand mixing a small layer like this with a spoon in...

Man, I'm disappointed! Last night I made a batch of pure white unscented soap to use as soap curls. It turned out great and I had carefully placed intricate soap curls in my mold after curling them all up on a pencil. I was then creating a second batch of soap to fill in around the curls to...

Hello all. I'd be willing to bet this question has been asked before and I apologize, my Google-fu apparently needs some work. My question is, I would love to try making a slanted layer soap with different colors, I think it looks so pretty. Knowing me though, if I try to pour layer upon layer...

Hi everyone. I'd like to do a hot process soap this week and use GM as the liquid. Is this possible however? I've done a little looking around online and some guides suggested adding milk at the end of the cook and mixing it in and they've had success that way, but I wonder if this would be the...

Hopefully this is the right forum for this. :) I've got three failed batches I need to do something with. Nothing seriously wrong with them other than the fact that I learned about cleansing value a little too late and they're all hovering at about a 24, oops. They are very harsh on my skin. I...

Hi all, I'm thinking about doing a 21% coconut, 44% olive, 32% palm and 3% castor soap. Cleansing looks like it will be 14 and conditioning 57 and hardness 40. I did a very similar palm/olive/coco recipe before and got great feedback, personally really liked it. I branched out recently and did...

Does anyone have a tried and true ratio for these scents they'd be willing to share? Cedarwood optional, but I'd like to include orange and patchouli for sure. I was thinking maybe a 2:1:1 orange/patchouli/cedarwood ratio. Does this sound alright? I have 10x orange. These will be Christmas...

Hi all, I made a goat's milk, oatmeal, and honey soap on a whim yesterday before bed. This is my first ever milk soap, and following advice I've read on the 'net, I popped it in the freezer after pouring. I checked on it this morning and it looks great!! It's in individual ~4oz rectangular...

Has anyone found a small loaf mold? I have a 42oz silicone mold and it's awesome. I love being able to put inserts in to do swirls, etc. The only problem is that it's a LOT of soap. Sometimes I just want to make a small batch to test things out (or so that I won't get tired of one type of soap)...

Hello all, Up until this point I've followed recipes exactly or I've stuck to one EO or fragrance per batch, but now I want to start mixing it up. For instance, let's make this entirely theoretical for the sake of conversation. Let's say I'm doing an orange and patchouli blend at 2 parts...

Hey all. I just made a batch of peppermint soap, it smells awesome! I followed this recipe and was looking forward to a batch of gorgeous mint green soap! https://lovelygreens.com/natural-peppermint-soap-recipe/ Well... ok. Kinda followed the recipe. :) I think my mistake was that I used...

Hi all! So I purchased some Orange 10x a while back thinking I was going to make a pure orange soap... still might, actually... but I have been playing around with the idea of making a scent combination instead. Do you have any favorite scent combos that include orange? I'm almost thinking an...