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Dear soapmakers, This ingredient is for a shampoo bar. Where can I buy it? You would make my day if I find a place to buy it! Thank you!

Dear soapmakers! Has anyone done charcoal and salt bar with 100% tallow? Or which oils would be the best with salt and charcoal? Thank you very much! I have made only charcoal soap with pine tree essence I made myself, and coconut, shea, olive, tallow, castor. With BB's FO. It is a bestseller.

Dear soapmakers, how to make such pattern? I love those bars.

I could see many Russians are using sea buckthorn oil in soap making. It gives nice properties to a bar and gives a nice orange color. Have anyone tried this oil on this forum?

Found a bottle of walnut oil. Not fresh. Can I use it at lower SF?

For a present I got a bottle of sheep milk from my Amish friend. Would like to try to make soap. What oils would go nicely with sheep milk? It would be my first ever experiment with milk in soap. I know that first I add milk to oils and second I add 1:1 lye solution. But what oils would be...

Today at Costco I saw all kinds of cheap oils - corn, canola, vegetable, peanut and soybean oils. Can it be used for soapmaking??? I never used those oils. The cheapest I have ever used was beef tallow that I rendered myself. Beef fat got at an Amish farm.

Dear soapmakers, that was my dream - to make tar bars. Eventually I bought tar in Turkey this month. It is a juniper tar. Does anyone have done such soap? Which oils are the best for going along with tar? If you could share a recipe :) Thank you very much!

Dear soapmaking community, Please, help me to find big molds and dishes to make soap. I cannot find any long molds (wooden box and silicon liner) on line or on Amazon. I see such long rectangular molds only on Instagram, some soapmakers use them. But where can I buy it? Could you also...

I make more and more bars of soap because I started to sell my soap at craft fairs and on line store. I would like to get a workshop on our property. Our garage is in a bad shape, so... We decided to fix it and build an attic above our garage and I can use that space to make/keep/cure bars...

This organic cocoa butter is in a huge one solid piece. I would like to make soap. I understood that I can put only 10% of it in a batch. Which other oils would give a nice hard bar of soap together with organic cocoa butter? Thank you!

Usually I made mono oil soap using coconut oil. I like that soap, very hard and lathers very well. Right now I started to make 3-4 oils soap with tallow, cocoa butter, castor oil, olive oil, coconut oil. It takes so long before I can cut my bars. Can I somehow speed up the process? Add salt...

This week I made my first Christmas soap. I would like to make a set with several different soaps. Please, welcome with ideas!

Dear soap making community! Where is the best and cheapest to order 76 Coconut oil? 35 lbs of coconut oil with delivery from BB costs 100$. Is it possible to get cheaper coconut oil somewhere? Please, share information if you know!