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I'm about to make some face cream/moisturizer for my daughter....she finally trusts me !! She's all of 36 and says she wants something for her "ageing" skin :rolleyes: I must add I'm pretty new to this lotion game....only really made it for myself but have been quite happy. I'm using WSP to...

I'm about to make my first ever hand cream and the recipe calls for 6gms Optiphen Plus. I only have Germall Plus so wondering if I can substitute and if so can I use the same amount ?

I was so looking forward to cutting my tube of alkanet soap this morning...you can see why... and what the result was :( Was really expecting to have all these magnificent royal blue bars ! Trying to trouble shoot myself, I decided perhaps I shouldn't have insulated ? Also I used 15% alkanet...

So excited to report that my crumbled gardener's soap successfully re-batched ! I had been looking at it everyday as it was getting drier and more crummy looking... literally, so it was dump it or try and re-batch. I found Zany's method and it seemed pretty straight forward, so I followed it...

Can anyone suggest why my new gardener's bar might crumble when I cut it ? A bit of background - the first one I made on 29/4 with my formulation looks great...but haven't tried yet. Second one - using pumice & borax and very old and dodgy "palm"oil (Frymasta)... looked okay until I cut it when...

I've been going back through old posts and read some pretty scary stuff about CP shampoo bars 😬 I haven't used a commercial shampoo or conditioner since I started on soap making about 4 years ago. In fact that was the main reason I got back into soaping... my supply had almost run out. I've...

After breaking the ice yesterday with my first posting, I'm probably going to bombard the forum with all the questions I can't find answers too.... First one ...made my first ever batch of Soleseif last week. 25% pink Himalayan brine ( I know....I've read not to use Himalayan, but that's what I...

Just getting back into CP soap making after three and a half years off. Not that I was very experienced, but I had been addicted for 12 month...thanks to the wonderful Anne Watson ! Then circumstances changed... we sold our farm...which had the perfect soap making lab.... an old poultry...