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Hi With Christmas coming, I am wanting to create attractive biodegradable see-through packaging for gifting my soaps. My idea is to create a base box of card with a clear tuck-in see-through lid. The concept of the tuck in lid works (see pic), but the biodegradable part is where I am...

Story so far... I made a batch of bastille soap with lavender EO but overdid the mica decoration on top which I hated so decided to rebatch for the first time. Impatience being my middle name I didnt wait long enough for the soap to melt and kept adding more water.... oops! After cooking for...

Here is an article that came through my news feed. Aside from the blatant lack of research and knowledge they are giving a recipe with no safety instructions, just to sell a blender (I think) Let’s try making soap from used cooking oil with ARE-310 ｜ The global standard for mixing, defoaming...

Hi I am certainly not what I would call an experienced soaper, but I think I have learnt quite fast (pats self on back lol). My soap-making story goes like this... I moved into an amazing little cottage on a farm and my landlady, Lizzy, was buying natural soaps and asking each of the suppliers...

I have made several batches of soap now using 3 recipes. The first is a Bastille, 80% OO/13.33% CO/6.67% Castor, the 2nd is a Milk soap, 71% OO/26% CO/3% Castor, and the third is my hard bar of 60% CO and 40% Sunflower. They are a mixture of HP and CP with additives and without and all have...

Hi I tried the CPOP yesterday and, following some general guidelines, it failed miserably - I tried the "preheat oven at 170 degrees and cook for one hour then turn off the oven and leave overnight" method which resulted in a lovely gooey overflowing bubbly mess after 45 mins 😂😂 which I scraped...

Hi I have some copper sulphate crystals and would like to add them into soap as I believe it has some amazing antiseptic properties. I have found some articles and free patents for Copper Soaps/Copper Sulphate Soap but the technical jargon is beyond my understanding. My thinking is that it...

I just came across this article that I found quite interesting : ) Hope you do too https://www.ripleys.com/weird-news/soap-mummies/

I am wanting to make a hand sanitizer for home and family but have a couple of issues with most of the recipes available. t seems the main ingredients of all I have seen are alcohol (70%+) - either Isopropyl alcohol or ethanol - for the sanitizer part and aloe vera gel or glycerin for the...

Everyone, including me, is very happy with the Castille recipe I have but I would like to sell my soaps and, unfortunately, the majority of the population in South Africa cannot afford to pay the prices for an almost pure Olive Oil soap. So I have tried to replace the Olive Oil with Sunflower...

I am new to soaping and this is my 5th batch - I have just seen the thread on ricing, volcanoes, etc. Is this ricing? It was an experiment using fresh mint dried in the microwave and added to pureed cucumber as 2/3rds of the liquid component which came to trace and was cooking nicely HP before...

Hi My name is Colleen and I have just started making soap. After 2 batches I am totally addicted already. I do have a problem though, now that I am hooked, I want to jump right in there and do the more or very advanced processes :) I live on a farm in Cato Ridge, just outside of Durban in South...

Hi I am quite new to soap making and absolutely loving it. I have used a basic hot process recipe to learn (recipe below) and made 2 batches so far. The first was as instructed without the EO. The 2nd I halved at thick trace and moulded for cold process and then added lavender EO and food...