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So being a novice soaper for about 8 or 9 months now I decided to try some new things. Such as sugar in my liquid. Uh huh! Of course it doesn't dissolve well cold. I made the boneheaded decision to heat up all my sugar aloe gel mix to dissolve the sugar! MISTAKE!!!!! Oh Lord have mercy on my...

I love your monthly competitions! Such talented people! Curious when is a good time to try a competition? I do not feel my soaping skills are good enough to even rank an honorable mention I just think it would be fun to try to "up" the learning curve and what a fun way to try new things. So...

Well it was bound to happen! My colloidal oatmeal soap is sans colloidal oatmeal... I forgot to add it... Then holy accelerating fragrance oils Bat Man!!! Awwwww!!! AGAIN??? 3rd time now!!! :mad: This Magnolia Blossom soap is going to be NOT pretty! Oh well! Rustic right? ;)

Used to buy my Castor oil at the Walmart pharmacy in 3 oz bottles. Picked up 2 bottles of Castor oil and a small bottle of mineral oil and decided to pay at the pharmacy. Sure enough the pharmacist recommended Miralax for constipation! o_O Old boy loves my soaping and buying me my exotic oils...

Read and read but did not read if adding the water to my evaporated milk before freezing it into cubes will prevent the orange/brown discoloration from evap. goat's milk. Soap Queen video shows her dissolving the lye over the milk cubes and she has the container also sitting in an ice water...

Oh no... Old boy bought me an industrial quantity of titanium dioxide. Insane amount. He doesn't remember the website he purchased it from. How do I figure out if I mix with water or oil? This is unlabeled packaging! Is there a way to tell? I anticipate mixing both ways to see. However what do...

Good morning forum readers. Today on a whim I tried heat transfer method using aloe vera gel/drink. I put my kaolin clay in the liquid oils. Then I wasn't sure where or what to add sodium lactate to. So I added that to the liquid oils. As my lye and aloe mix was already in the hard fats. Does...

Is it my impatience or ? I got a 4 Cavity mold with a recessed tree in it. I but a very small layer of green into the recessed areas took the time to clean up the mold from where I did not want green, then over a spatula gently poured the white. I forgot to spray with Pam. 24 hours later I...

Well it was expected at some point. I had decided to do the polka dot thing in a loaf pan using squeeze bottles. Well we have our first pencil line soap instead. I used rose essential oil and BAM! Instant acceleration with a hint of rice! :( So we did a 3 layer with 2 pencil lines of activated...

The old boy made me a nice oak soap slicer!! Looks super professional! Then he stained the wood. Does polyurethane hold up to lye?

Help! I followed one of the BB or SQ videos resizing the recipe only. Put it through soapcalc as always. Ended up starting to mix lye water into my fats when all was around 98 both fats and water as I couldn't "see" my immersion blender attachment. I was so organized and had everything ready...

I just have to say thank you to all my soaping friends who have been so generous with tips and advice! This is the best website! Everyone is so nice! I love reading and rereading the old threads with all the seasoned soaper's interjecting their know how! Never really thought I would find a hobby...

I want to try doing a Kaleidoscope design in my re-purposed Pringles can. I found something the old boy made as he is a machinist and makes plastic injection molds. I found what looked like part of a strainer/sieve and cut it down, enlarged the holes. Used Devcon epoxy to glue a wooden spoon to...

Anybody ever make soaps designed to look like the colors of a particular Flag? I want to make a sky blue soap with a black star in the middle and give it to my gal pals from Somalia. I have a friend from Germany and that should be relatively easy like the Somali flag. And I think if would be...

I just received my order from P and J and a bottle came empty. All bottles nicely wrapped in bubble wrap and yet they didn't notice the bottle being empty? I hope they respond to my e-mail. Could not locate a phone number. And my favorite Lilac too! Here's hoping they have decent customer...

Nothing like starting out the new year by un-molding and cutting soap! Then I made a new recipe and used my last two sample mica packs and used my homemade swirl tool and have a new batch beautifully setting up! New year so I figured I would crank up my super fat to 10% as I have yet to go above...

Is a virtue I don't own. But we are doing it! This is my diversion to let the oils cool! We are at 140 and I am so anxious to add the lye!!!! EEK!!! Not yet!!!! 110 is the goal!!!! Going to try an in pot swirl and use my Milky Way style molds I got for Xmas!!!! Happy soapy Sunday all! Send me...

Hello fellow soapers. Yes I am new at this and the old boy bless his heart, got me some soap molds. They are the clear plastic style. They say do not go over 145 degrees which I don't plan on soaping that hot. Can I use these for CP? Will I need mineral oil in them? I hate to tell him they won't...

Happy holidays and happy soaping! Daughter gave me some fund raiser items from a mystery bag. Had these cute cardboard glittery, holiday pop open pillow cartons. Perfect for first couple batches of soap. A slice fit great into each one. Been 4 weeks and I brought one soap bar to the shower...