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Hi, hope I am posting this in the right area....I am still a pretty new soaper...looking for some ideas for a relaxing luxurious bar.......I have been infusing some olive oil with calendula petals, and I treated myself to some ylang ylang EO. Will it just fade away in the CP soap process, I’d...

I saw a local soap maker advertising sea glass soap, that is topped with a real piece of sea glass, that she advises you need to remove before using.....We’re in Canada. Just looking for others opinions on this kind of practice - I think it’s asking for trouble to put any kind of glass in a skin...

Sigh....I don’t like the colour .....olive oil 65%, coconut oil 35%, 48 oz oil, 5% superfat, 33% lye. I used pink clay, for the colour, and ground oatmeal is the Bumps...did an attempt At a swirl, pouring down the side of a pitcher.....1.5oz of EO, eucalyptus, sweet orange....lemon grass and...

I wondered in CP soaps i am using 48oz oils in total, with a 6%super fat, and I think the soap calc usually give me fragrance at 42 grams......I find the fragrance is stronger when I use this amount .....but the EO scents fade so much during curing - peppermint seems definitely to last.....other...

Okay not the best picture - but in the bottom soap on the right.....in the swirl - the white as been really showing up a seeming like chalk or powder. I have not seen any of my soaps before - and didn't show until it had cured for a few days. I don't know what it is - it doesn't seem like it...

Hi, I joined the forum recently, but hadn't put an intro yet. I took my first soap lessons a few years ago, and was not bitten by any sort of soap fever until the last year or so......I decided to try it for myself and had no idea it could be so addictive! poor hubby - the whole house smells...

Hi, so I've read a few posts about zap tests. I realize that the longer soap cures it should become more mild, and that the "zap" is definitely an immediate sort of zap. So - my CP soap is 10 days old, and I was dying of curiosity, and tried my finger in some suds - no zap. so touched my...