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I use a welding rod...bends sharp...indestructible.

I knew this guy that always had a lot of money. I asked him what he did to get it so I could follow his lead. Apparently I misunderstood what he said because now I am a soap dealer. Not the same money.

I put my hard oils in one of three crock pots to melt. Once melted I marry them with my soft oils in a 5 gallon bucket with a spigot. I take 1 gallon buckets with lids and then fill from the 5 gallon bucket. Depending on ambient temps I might microwave the buckets before use. While it is heating...

I can't speak to their molds but to their beveler. To take mine you would have to pry it from my cold dead body. I love it. Yes it costs a lot but it's worth it. You know when you have a professional grade tool and this is one.

So I used to use an ice cream scoop but better is a clay cutting wire. I just cut the cube into manageable sized blocks. It's much faster, you do it only once. I just put enough in to a bucket and it goes into the crockpot or microwave.

My fav soap tool hands down is the soap planer and beveler. In fact as sort of a tool guy that has lots of all kinds of tools, it's in my top 5 tools ever. Well made, will last forever, looks like it did the day I bought it and I use it nearly every day.

I spent ten years as a glass artist. Then came soap, well actually after other things then came soap. I have tried to replicate glass in soap with little success but many strategies. Opaque is easier than translucent or transparent but it will seldom look like glass, except a little bit when...

I always see an astronaut what do you see?

Just bought lye from a local distributor for 2 bucks a pound. Had to do a little digging to find a chemical supply house but it was worth it. If you are near Seattle check out Cascade Columbia..but perhaps most cities have a similar kind of supplier. I had to buy at least 50 lbs but compared to...

Crock pot works..Palm oil is slow but if you plan it's fine. I should add have the oil in a container first.

Much of soaping strategies elude me. I've been doing this so long I started out believing that oils and lye needed to be within 10 degrees of one another....until I learned that mixing 200 degree lye water with room temp oils was the way to go. My maths couldn't work out that being a 10 degree...

Why isn't Mobil 1 listed on soap calc?

How about Mayo? ;)

So I usually make slab mold soaps. If your mold isn't really level you get sloped soap. So have been re leveling the soap mold table every time. Not sure why it doesn't stay level. I think the molds are a bit off but it was time consuming and frustrating to re level after each batch...So this is...

Our market was cancelled without notice yesterday due to some weather reports that might have included t-storms. The day was beautiful, sunny and no t storms. Sigh...loaded the rig, drove there, no one was there, no notice....sigh. End of Rant

Local suppliers might be best. Mine offers a 50lb bag at 95 cents a pound but has a weird 25 dollar environmental fee but still a bargain.

Thanks everyone for the insights and info....off to make soap.

Thank you so very much. For now I have just the one recipe and I like it..so off I go to make more soap appreciate the time you took to explain.

Ok that makes sense. I don't have at present more than one recipe. I love the one I have. So off I go..thanks.

So just to be sure. If my former single batch mix had x amount of water and x amount of lye= my lye water. When I make a masterbatch of 6x of lye and 6x of water when I go to pour off 1 batch worth of the lye water mix...it is the total of water and lye amount for a single batch that I would...