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I just wanted to share with you my excitement. Only you guys would understand how I feel. This is a video of my new studio being delivered today. It's even more exciting for me since it is because we are trying to recover from Hurricane Florence from last year. We lost everything so this is a...

I just wanted to share with you my excitement. Only you guys would understand how I feel. This is a video of my new studio being delivered today. It's even more exciting for me since it is because we are trying to recover from Hurricane Florence from last year. We lost everything so this is a...

Just wondering if there are diy plans for making your own slab loaf cutter? I have the dough pan aka soap slab molds. It measures 12 x 24 x 3 Id like to make a cutter to cut the slab in about 4 loaves. Any ideas? I just cant buy the new expensive ones just yet because we are trying to recover...

Hello I lost everything to Hurricane Florence last September. We have to rebuild a workshop. I am looking for used equipment for soaps and candles near Jacksonville NC. Can text pictures and questions 910 467 1488 Anyone destashing? Pass the word if you know someone. Thank you. Sonya lye...

As I look at sites to try and determine what I need/want for my business I only wonder how in the world do folks afford some of this outrageously expensive equipment? Ive been in business for a little over 10 years. Slowly Ive been upscaling to a certain degree; large masterbatching recipes...

I'm just a little confused on the lye mixture. This is what I have for an approximate sample recipe in Soapmaker 3: olive 65.87 oz coconut 98.80 oz lard 115.26 castor 16.47 422..42 total recipe weight volume is 402.15 no. of bars 84.5 here is where I get confused: when I...

I just purchased the Quickbooks Pro software and started to set this up. But the huge manual I have and everything looks a bit overwelming. I do have SM3 as well but have only been using that for the recipes,etc. Any ideas or suggestions on setting QB up for a soapming business? Really need...

Hey friends. I am moving to our new home this week. I am so excited because I have an entire basement/carport that's bricked in to make a huge room. It also has a room within the basement for an office already wired for phone and computer. It's concrete flooring, so I need to do something...

Just wanted to share my weekend adventure. I'm not sure if this will work or not, but wanted to post pictures of my first flea market showing. How do you like it? You can look at my facebook page Luxuriously Natural Soaps, NC We had lot's of fun. But learned a lot in the process...

Ok here's a simple soap that I did day before yesturday. I kept it wrapped in towels and a blanket in a wooden mold 24 hours. Still it seems like it didn't completely gell. Maybe after a few days it will complete. I tried to swirl this one with Celestial Colors Sunset and Muscadine. The...

OK I was doing this CP soap. Everything was going fine. Until I added my eo as very light trace. All of a very split second, it traced then got super hard like bad mashed potatoes. When trying to scoop it out into molds, the very center of my pot of cp had gelled, but the rest look like...

I was trying to add a couple of my eo into Soapmaker 3 today. I had a hard time trying to fill in all those properties for each one even after hours of googling. And how do I know they are correct? Does anyone have a chart or refrence to specific gravities, iodine, acids of eo's? One that I...

Ok. So I got this bottle of liquid glycerin from a lady at the flea market. She wrote on the bottle 2 oz for CP and 4 oz for HP. Can I use this to make a hard bar soap recipe, and how would I account for this with lye. Or is it best to use it as a melt n' pour method as a glycerin base? She...

Hi. I've had CM3 for about a week now. How do you count your milks, and other liquids when creating your recipe? How do you change the water amount to account for the milk? Still trying to figure it all out, but having fun!