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I'm currently trying to formulate a lavender lemonade scent using essential oils for a lotion I'm planning on making and I'm trying to find something to add to it to give a note of sweetness. I was hoping to maybe get vanilla absolute, but where I'm looking to purchase from (stillpoint...

I'm going to be making a coconut scented shaving bar (I just use a very bubbly recipe of mine, it's not a real shaving bar recipe) and I have it in mind to use some sort of coconut product as my liquid. I read that coconut milk gives some silkiness and extra fat plus a sugar boost, whereas the...

Just thought I'd like to start a soap showcase of my own to keep track of my batches. :) I make almost all of my soap with goat milk unless otherwise specified. After a few months hiatus I made a little six bar batch using a new recipe which I'm developing as my standard majority goat tallow...

Here's a batch I made on Thursday. It's inspired by Milo's Tea with lemonade, which I absolutely love. I used black tea as half of the liquid, and it's scented with WSP Iced Tea Twist. I got the idea for the ice cubes from Royalty Soaps. This soap turned out exactly as I wanted it to. I had...

Ugh my brain either isn't comprehending this right or this is honestly confusing. I use the dissolve the citric acid in water and add it to the oils method and I can't figure out if and how I need to discount that water from my batch total. The thing that is confusing me is in Soapmaking...

Does anyone have an example of what it means for a fragrance oil to cure a soap to pink? I've heard that it's the petrichor element that can do it in some FOs. My bottle of "River Stone" from WSP says it does it, as does "Thunderstorm". I've been concocting a color scheme based on my visit to...

Yesterday I made a batch of salt bars using a recipe that @Obsidian shared. They are scented with Nurture Soap Champagne and they also have poppy seeds and cornmeal in them. Because of the poppy seeds I figured "bagels" was a more accurate description than "doughnuts". I had wonderfully fluid...

I got a coupon from WSP for a free 2 oz FO for completing a survey, and I'm thinking about trying their Thunderstorm FO. The notes on it say that it accelerates a little and cure to pink, which is why I've been hesitant to give it a go. Does anyone have pictures of the amount of discoloration...

On Saturday my sister and I made a bunch of lotion bars and I made a liquid goat tallow lotion for the first time. We had way too much fun and love the results of our "work". This first one is uncolored and scented with lavender eos. This one was our first attempt at coloring them. We...

Can any of you recommend me a soapmaking podcast? The search engine on google podcasts is just atrocious, so I thought maybe one of you could point me in the direction of something quality and entertaining. Thanks!

I'm a bit confused as to why it is that you are supposed to only use distilled water for lotion making. Recipes claim it is because distilled water is free of microbes, couldn't I just boil some water instead to kill any little guys living in the water before I use it? Essentially pasteurize...

My mother has some pinecones that in the days of yore she would drop a little eye dropper full of some sort of scent on them to make them smell nice for Christmas. We're not really sure what this product actually was, but she asked me if I could make any sort of nice smelling something to put...

So with my new abundance of goat tallow, I have it on my mind to try a shelf stable liquid lotion, just for personal use, not to sell. Never made one of those before, only refrigerated lotions or lotion bars. I found this recipe from Bumblebee Apothecary, and I'm thinking of giving it a shot...

I've got a color in my head that I'm not sure I can achieve with the mica colors I have. I'm aiming for something like this: I've only got (all from Nurture Soap) Blue Vibrance, Making Waves, Full Throttle, Lemon Drop, Love and Sunshine, Yellow Vibrance, Force of Nature, Green Vibrance, and...

I have a very large family for whom I make soap. Our outdoor and farming lifestyle makes for lots of handwashing, and I have striven to make a bar of soap that can stand up to the demands of nearly constant use. At the beginning I struggled to make a bar that would not turn into a gross mushy...

A recent batch of soap I made has turned out better than any batch I've previously made. It was the same recipe that I always use; the only difference was that I master-batched my oils to do another batch in the same soaping session and it was a fragrance oil that I've never used. I made sure...

I am on the hunt for a coconut scent. It can be a straight coconut, but I might be more interested in something more complex too. Maybe something with citrus notes or even a warmer vanilla twist, but I want coconut to be the main smell. I would like to get it from either Bramble Berry...

I just won a $50 amazon gift card on a goat forum, and I would like to use it to buy soap making stuff. What would you buy on amazon for soap making if you had only $50 to spend? I'm not looking for base oils or anything like that, I'm interested in tools, swirl tools, molds (maybe), and...

I made this batch of charcoal soap for my sister yesterday. It's got kaolin and bentonite clay in it. Fragranced with BB Energy. I think this is my favorite design yet!

Hello all! I am asking this question for a friend. She has about a quart of rendered goose fat that she found in her freezer that has gone rancid. She's wondering if it would be okay to use for soap making if she does 0% superfat as she read somewhere that it was okay to. I recommended...