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DISCLAIMER: SMF is not responsible for any sale, trade, co-op, pre-buy, fast buy, garage sale, ad or other transactions between members. All parties enter into transactions at their own will/risk. Backstory: All my crafting this far has been at my parents' place because they're fine with it and...

So I know it's not used in liquid soaps because those aren't (usually) thick enough to hold it in suspension, but it seems like cream and shave soaps would be thick enough. I haven't seen any pictures of thicker soap products with color, so I'm just wondering if there's a reason. Or maybe I'm...

Ok, after much searching for monk fruit that is only monk fruit without erythritol or other sweeteners, isn't water-based, alcohol-based, or propylene glycol-based, is available to people who don't own a business, is available in amounts less than 20lbs or something outrageous, and is written in...

A late Valentine's Day soap, but oh well. Love is never really out of season, right? FO Peony and Amberwood from BB, smells heavenly and behaves well. The smell didn't seem to change much between OOB and in soap. Mango butter majority soap, so stirred it with a spatula and started pouring and...

Ok, I know avocado oil is a terrible soap on its own, but I'm wondering what a Avo bastille would be like. I'm debating between a few recipes, but the constants will be 3% SF, 2% oil weight Sodium Glutamate and Sorbitol, and all liquid will be AVJ. I'm hoping for a recipe that doesn't trace very...

Soaps from this weekend! Taiwanese Swirl- FOs Guava & Fig and Living Coral Reef from WSP at 3:1 ratio. I over-mixed it, so the ends look weird. Liquid 100% AVJ. A duplicate of my first batch ever, which I loved, but with Sodium Gluconate and Sorbitol instead of Citric Acid and nothing. Photo of...

I'm just wondering if anyone else has tried this. I've got M&P on the way for a different project. I'm considering using foam board and silicone glue to make a scraper mold or molds. Obviously, I'll have to soap cold and keep an eye on my temps. The recipe I have in mind doesn't heat much on its...

Also an Oatmeal Honey soap, with colloidal oatmeal and honey (and a little salt) cooked and blended and then frozen and used for half liquid. The lye was first dissolved with Aloe Vera Juice, but those cubes were frozen too, so my lye mixture was 85°f once everything thawed. I warmed up my oils...

Made just last night! I wanted to use up my mango butter, so these are 78% Mango butter, 15% Coconut oil, and 7% Castor oil. FO was WSP Secret Wonderland, which is a creamy, fruity, slightly floral fragrance. It accelerated a little in addition to the recipe, but fortunately I only needed to...

Maybe I'm crazy, but I bought a candle from Target with a Teakwood fragrance, (made by Chesapeake Bay), and now I'm looking for a duplicate fragrance to make soap with. A lot of the teakwood FOs I'm seeing are mixed with other things, and I really like the soft-but-not-spa Teakwood scent.

SMF does a lovely job of holding my 17 soap recipes, but now that I'm branching out into body butter, lip balm, and hope to get into bath bombs, does anybody have recommendations for recipe organization? Currently, I copy my recipes down on paper, put them in a plastic cover, copy down any...

Inspiration backstory: When I was younger, everyone in our family would wake up at 6am on Christmas morning to a soundtrack set the night before. It takes a long time to get through gift-giving between 9 individuals, and everyone still had to be dressed up, enjoy a special breakfast, and get...

Please move this if it isn't in the right spot. I screenshot the page that displays when I try to access the Soap Calculator. It'll let me get past it, but it won't let me actually change my recipes. And I'm on a home wifi network I frequently use. Anyone else running into this? I'm on an...

Formula stuff first: I'm not planning to sell, this would just be for friends and family (maybe as Christmas gifts), and I need to use Argan oil since I don't like it in the recipes I bought it for. So I just whipped up a little batch of: 4g refined argan oil 3g refined Shea butter 3g refined...

As mentioned in @SPowers thread, a 50% superfat soap. Which probably won't clean well, so it's bad soap, and it's meant to be washed off, so it's bad body butter. But I'm curious, so I'm donating 100g of oils for science. After a lot of thought, I decided on the following percentages: 50%...

Alternative title would be Adventures in Medium trace. 100g of oil per batch meant I couldn't stick blend, also less precision. 25-27% SF, honey 1TBS PPO, Aloe Vera Juice/coconut cream split, 40% natural sea salt, and 2% Sodium Gluconate per batch. Experimenting with Avocado Oil, Shea Butter...

I initially made this for the marble challenge, but I'm 99% sure I'll make another batch to enter that's more marble-y. A lot of things didn't go quite as planned with this soap, so it was a good learning experience. I'm relatively pleased with how it turned out, even though it wasn't quite what...

So, my mom really, really like some of the FOs I've aquired, and wanted to know if she could wear it. Well luckily, WSP FOs have handy-dandy percentage rates for all things including perfume, and WSP also sells a perfume carrier oil base. So, near as I can tell, this looks like a slam-dunk...

Hello all! Between some soaping and whipping up some body butter, I'm using more Shea butter than I expected to. I originally purchased mine from BB, and I do love it, but does anyone have recommendations of where to buy comparable Shea butter that will arrive in less than a month? Roughly...

Pictures of my first bars of soap ever, and I cannot believe they turned out this well! Ok, so I know there's a lot that can absolutely still go wrong, and they can't be used for 6 weeks etc. Also, I know it's not recommended to use micas, fragrance oils, titanium dioxide, or other finicky...