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All, please help me with the Stephenson Shampoo bar. What preservative do they use and do I need to add more if I add stuff? I get that their product is trademarked so they don't want to disclose everything but there has to be a preservative, right? Water is one of the few ingredients that they...

Hey all, I need some guidance from the pros. Sorry in advance if this is the wrong forum for this! I am getting ready to make a big batch of soap for the holidays and have been using New Directions Aromatics almost exclusively for Mango Butter, Babassu Oil, and Fair Trade Shea Butter...

A couple of batches of cold process soap this weekend have developed a grainy or lumpy texture after stick blending. I always have trouble getting my temps right in the spring and fall but I got a sneaking suspicion that maybe the temps are a red herring and it's my stick blender dying. Any...

Y'all. I had a little trouble with my titanium dioxide. I think it's too much. What do you think? 🤦‍♀️

I seek the guidance of my revered soapy elders! How do I make a soap intentionally colored the same color as fragrance oil discoloration but without the fragrance oil? Will coffee in the lye solution do the trick? Beer? Tea? What if I soaked a vanilla bean in the oils and then strained out the...

Made some soap last night, combined oils and lye water at about 120 degrees, maybe a little less. Put the mold on the cold porch (New Hampshire in Autumn) uncovered. This morning I have partial gel. I should have waited longer for everything to cool, yes? I also learned that a little bit of...

I need a judges ruling here, what on earth did I do? The whole batch has a vague chemical banana smell that is so bad that I had to put it outside. Also, it weirdly did a partial gel even though it was just sitting out on the counter with no insulation/heat. Recipe is as follows: Olive Oil 574...

I whipped up a batch of soap this morning before work in my BRAND NEW Nurture Soap 4.5 lb mold. After heating up the oven to its lowest setting I turned it off, popped in my soap and happily carried on with my day. That is until this evening when I got a bewildered call from the hus-beast. "I...

Y'all there is a thing that I have been seeing in pics and soap vids that is like a stand for a loaf mold but it holds the mold at an angle, but you can set it to different angles. It's black. I got in my head that I might try to purchase this thing and now I can't find it. Searched everywhere...

Today I made steak soap. Completely unintentional and absolutely a dead ringer for prime rib. To be fair, I have had a great run up until now. I've only been soaping since February and in that time I have blended my own fragrances, formulated my own recipes, made some great designs - I'm due for...

So I work very hard to make sure I don't have air in my soap, pour down the spatula, burp the stick blender, all the things, but I am still getting a ton of air in my soap. It seems to start after I start blending with my KitchenAid (is this brand known to cause issues?) immersion blender, I put...

So, I am a baby soaper. I learned this past winter when my 100-year-old New Hampshire home was on average a crisp 60 to 65 degrees inside almost all the time. I have been happily mixing up cold process soap at an oil & Lye temp of 130 f, wrapping it up in blankets, and tucking it into bed on a...

Um, what on earth have I done to this poor soap?

New to body butter and can't figure out what I am doing wrong. Recipe is as follows: Mango Butter Shea Butter Hemp Seed Oil Have made it several times and am now at approx 2/3 butter, 1/3 oil ratio. Still whips up hard as a rock. What do you recommend?