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It ended up getting stored in the spare bedroom the boys sleep in when we visit... I think they just put it there once and forgot about it...

When visiting my in-laws, I discovered they hadn't used one of the soaps I made at least 6 years ago... I used a hot cocoa fo, and added some powdered baking cocoa for color. The marshmallows are 100% coconut, I used a narrow PVC pipe as a mold for those. Floated the "marshmallows" on top of...

The Ph of the wine might also be messing with it.

I sort of know how you feel. A couple years ago I was looking to get my mom (who loves my soap, since better for her eczema than the store-bought ones) some handmade soap for Christmas (I was pregnant at the time and hubby was freaking out about the thought of me making soap while pregnant...

Well, I googled it and the only real bit of info I could find was here: http://www.jstor.org/pss/2834912 It seems like it could be the reason they don't work in salt bars for many people is that they may lower the pH of the soap so much that it can't stick together- similar to the sludge you...

I think it might be more eye-catching if the wood came about halfway to 2/3rds of the way up the sign, so the sign sticks out more. Or maybe if the corners are about 1/2 to 2/3rds of the height of the sign, and the back board comes up from there diagonally to the top edges of the sign? If I'm...

Actually, those look pretty good. Being chocolate mint, it actually does look appropriate! I probably couldn't get that look if I tried!

I'm planning on making hot cocoa soap. I've got a 2' section of 3" PVC I plan to hack into 2" deep rounds. I have a 1/2" thick plastic pipe I plan to cut into sections and use them to make "marshmallows". I plan to cover the 3" pipe bottoms, pour in the "hot cocoa" soap, and top with my...

Here is one I recently did with CP and M&P curls. The dark one is the MP. The color is bleeding, but that's because I forgot to watch what I was doing and used a pigment that will bleed in MP. But, if I ever did a bar with neon colored MP curls, it might be a cool effect to do that and just...

Personally, I think using fryer oil for some personal batches would be an interesting experiment. I just might look into how to clean oils and try making a laundry soap from it the next time I warm up the home fryer. But I'm thinking if you're not 100% sure what oils you're using AND you...

I had to admit, when I saw "charcoal" I pictured grinding up some grill briquetts in the food processor... :lol:

April 17. :D

No problem, ChrisShepp... Though I envy you your umbrella drink, I have an 8-month or so dry spell to live through before I can have my beloved Margarita on the rocks again.....

I've never bathed in the lake (esp when I've been to and seen some with leeches... :shock: ), I bathe at least 200' from any water source, per Leave No Trace guidelines. I at least did my research on THAT, lol....

I was just sharing my spur-of-the moment urge to try experimenting, and I didn't think to stop to check the forum to see what would happen. Actually, I had told my hubby about the idea, he has a chemical engineering degree (though he is now an environmental engineer) and I guess he didn't give...

Well, yes, but I was looking around the forums about shampoo barss and people's experiences with them, and found out that hair likes more of a neutral PH. I was trying to make a shampoo bar that didn't frizz my hair. Looks like there's no shortcut, I'll just have to keep on testing.... :lol...

Lol. I was thinkig the same thing last weekend. I had some soap scraps and rebatched them (boil-in-bag method), and disolved some Citric acid in milk I added to the batch. As a previous poster mentioned, I ended up with sludge.

Hmm... Just wondering if it would be possible to make a batch from vanilla beans? I know 3 beans from Penzys Spices (we have one locally, I LOVE the place) is $7.25 but if someone I knew really wanted a naturally scented vanilla soap for a present, that wouldn't be too much for me. I think...

A while back I got a package of parchment sheets pretty cheap (when you take the quantity of total parchment into account) at GFS (Gordon Food Service). Other restaurant supply stores or Sams/Costco/etc might have these. It works nicely on my slab mold, pretty easy to peel off. Sometimes it...

I only got a partial gel on the batch, and as you can see, near the curls it didn't gel but between the curls it did for the top bar (which was in the center of my mold). Popular opinion on the CP form is that's a cool effect.. :lol: Maybe when I do CP curls I should freeze them and keep the...