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I've made several batches of simple soaps over the years, so much so I'm quite comfortable with the process. I really don't try anything fancy and just melt a few fats/butters, add the essential oil, lye, mix and pour into molds. It's served me well as I'm really not trying anything too...

It started with a conversation I was having with a friend when I was talking about my foray into soap making. We talked about whether you could make a soap bar out of just lard, the concept made us laugh. Then after asking around on here people talked about making soap just out of Olive Oil...

I'm only tinkering with soap making at the moment, but really really enjoying it. The other day I made pure olive oil soap and I am really really impressed with, so much so my Facebook stream has been full of lots of soaping updates by me. Then I got a message off an old school friend asking...

Hi everyone I just bought some fragrence oil in, well my wife did as I'm happy to have them scent free, and I was wondering on what portions to use. We have 200ml of Brown sugar and fig, and we got a free sample of spiced mulberry of 10ml. As the free sample is such a small amount I wondered...

I've posted this in general chat as it really was a passing general thought. Could you make a soap bar from just lard. I put it into the soap calc at it puts cleansing at 1 :lol: I was just wondering what the most box standard cheapest soap recipe would be, maybe with a cheap scent to so it...

Hi there I just did a batch of basic soap 6oz (15%) lard 6oz (15%) Mango Butter 28oz (70%) Olive oil with some lime essential oil too. I used 1oz of that It saponified a little slow, but the temp of both lye and oils were low so I wasn't worried (about 40ºc) and I used the cp/hp method where...

Hi there I've just made a few batches of soap (yes that awful 'ugly soap' I did looks like it's going to be useable too) and I wanted to ask a few questions about the curing process. I'm under the impression it takes about two weeks on racks to air/cure and then there's the zap test with the...

I feel a sense of Déjà vu. I started my soap making journey just over a year ago and the first batch I did was a disaster, I hadn't read the instructions right and I stuck the soap in the oven at a silly high temperature. The next three batches were fine and though not perfect I was really...

I was thinking a giving a go at CP soap making as that seems to be the one I'm finding on the internet a lot. The method seems straight forward (as long as I follow it precisely) and I might even give it a go with some essential oils. The question I have is, on all the videos and tutorials...

:D After my first disaster where I was that meticulous with detail and rereading the the instructions I read the fahrenheit temperature as celcius and as a result I super cooked my very basic soap mixture at more than double the tempertature ending up with a big fluffy smelly mess. That's...

Hey there everyone I had a go at my first batch of soap today (a few hours ago) and made my first big mistake (slaps forhead) I tried a tutorial from this site here http://www.smftutorials.com/beginners-g ... orial.html and was very retentive in the way I set everything up. I read and...

Hey Everyone, I thought I'd introduce myself on here seeing as it's all your guidelines I'm going to be using to make soap. First things first, I waffle; I can say in ten sentences what would easily work in one. It's always been part of me and now I accept it for the unique idiosyncrasy that...