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I’m so sorry, @Misschief, for the shock and subsequent pain for your coworker. Reading this post just makes me hurt for those who have been abused, and those who have had to deal with the effects of it. I wish I had pretty words to say, but please know you’re in my prayers.

SAME!! Every time I see it in my cabinet, I say to myself- in Ron Burgundy style, “LAN - Lanolin?” 😂😂

Usually it’s part of my 5% additives.

Today I had to make more cleansing balm because I got my husband to try it and he likes it! (He also is using my retinol night cream.) Plus he needed more sugar scrub. It’s so funny, y’all…..if you knew my husband, he’s such a BOY! Brushing his teeth and showering was about all the self-care he...

Such a pretty deep purple! And I’d be thrilled about purple lather too, as long as it’s not staining anything. I haven’t used enough alkanet soap to know if it’ll do that.

I add dimethicone at 1% to get rid of that “soaping” effect because I don’t like it either. I’m struggling here too, mostly bc I can’t seem to buy “normal” FOs. 😂 But there are a couple I’ve made that I like. NS Meditation is nice, as well as BB Spearmint Eucalyptus (although I can’t confirm if...

Interesting! Maybe I need to do a soda ash experiment!

I believe a kilometer is 3/5 of a mile. And don’t worry, no way am I converting kg to pounds using a 2:1 ratio for soapmaking. I formulate everything in grams. What I was saying about rough conversions in my mind is more what I use when I see a person’s weight in kg and I need to make it make...

I’m going to try this next time I make soap. I get soda ash Every. Single. Time. Thanks, @AliOop!

I can do really rough conversions in my head, but I do get confused because there are approximately 2 km in a mile, but approximately 2 pounds per kg. My mind likes patterns and wants there to be a consistent imperial-to-metric ratio.

The US is this weird hybrid. Like @Zing, I remember learning that the metric system was coming. And then it never really did, except in science venues to include healthcare. Sometimes. In the lab we’re all about metric, but when you look at nursing notes, sometimes body temps are in Celsius and...

I also would love to see the US switch to the metric system. It just makes more sense to scale things by 10, 100, 100, 1/1000, etc. than by 16, or 4, or 5,280. I’d also love to universally adopt military time, but that’s another discussion. Re: accuracy vs. precision, I think a lot of people...

Welcome, @Sting! Glad to have you here!

D’oh! Seriously, though, I hope you can find it. Or recreate it even better!

Absolutely beautiful, @Mobjack Bay! 😍😍😍 And speaking of dandelions, I just started an infusion today. It’s my first time giving it a try. I had some kind of salve/balm in mind for its use, but after seeing your gorgeous yellow soap, I may have to use some of it for that!

How interesting! I wouldn’t have thought a gram negative bacteria could grow at a high(er) pH. Great detective work! ETA: A little more info on Serratia:

Thank you!

I’d be surprised if mold could grow at the high pH of soap. I’d be more inclined to think that’s probably condensed moisture. Did you use any essential oils? I once made a batch of shaving soap with cedarwood and clove EOs and it turned pinkish.

I love them!

This is the soap that I made that was intended to be for the February challenge. I decided to play with the infused oils I made back in December - the yellow is annatto, the purple is alkanet (and while I’m chuffed at the pretty gray-purple, I was wishing it could’ve stayed the gorgeous deep red...