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I have dry skin and from what I have read coconut oil has a drying affect. Am I wrong? It seems that a lot of the recipes I've seen use coconut oil.

How would 50% 50% olive oil and palm oil turn out?

Gee thanks. I can't wait that long. What percentage of each would you use?

I plan on making some olive oil soap. I also have palm oil. If I just use olive oil is there any need to add castor oil to increase the amount of bubbles? Would I be better off to use some palm oil with the olive oil. I've been using canola oil and it is just too soft and I'm tired of it. That's...

Hey Phil, do you make HP. I started making HP and got one of those stick blenders and it sure saves me time and my arms don't get as sore nor do I get as bored.

Thanks Paul.

I have never heard of a salt bar. I can understand what a salt bar is but what are the benefits. What does it do?

Whoops. Thats cut and paste. Anyway as it turns out just click on it and it will take you there.

Try this web site. They have a lye calculator, fragrance oils, colorants etc. http://www.thesage.com/ You might have to cut and past that into your browser.

Thanks a lot Paul. As soon as I get my fragrance oils I'll cook up some soap. I just make the soap for myself and I ran out and have been using store bought for the last three months. Arrrrrg.

In the past I have used stearic acid to harden the bars of soap. It has been a while since I used it and alas I didn't write down how much I used. I used canola oil and it made a fairly soft soap and I never got the hard soap I wanted. I will be making more soap soon but have change the...

Thank you. You do the same.

Guess I haven't experienced that yet. I look at the pieces I made for David (my artist friends son) I think "Holy cow I sure made that wrong". But then I guess for a first time piece it is OK. Jim

I'm not having much luck in locating a tutorial on making hand creams. Can someone help me out.

Thank you. Jim

Thank you for the help. Guess I didn't see the search. Jim

I saw someone mentioned checking out the archives. How do I get there? What is a BBCode? How do I put one of those sayings that I see most of you have on your postings? Jim p.s. I really like this forum.

That's good Paul. I'll bet the ladies are thanking you right now. Jim

My artist friend has a son who was into pottery, tiles and clay art work. We became good friends also. I made some things for him and was complaining about some trivial mistake that I had made in one of the pieces. He told me "Jim embrace the defects". Jim

No, I just sell here and there. A good friend of mine is an artist and ceramist, if that is the correct word, and he has a studio show each year so I have shown some of my pieces there. I just work out of my garage so I don't make as much as I would like to. I got some tiles once from a tile...