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My young adult is interested in creating perfumes. We are a book loving 🥰 family. Does anyone have a hood book recommendation for creating DIY perfumes? Thinking 🎄🎁 so need to order or find ASAP. TIA 🤗

Hello Everyone, I am diluting soap paste for liquid soap & gifting it to a dear friend on her birthday 🥳. She LOVES lavender but everything she has is scented with straight lavender. I’d like to scent some liquid soap with a mixture of lavender & something else. Does anyone have a recommendation...

My 2 latest soaps, when cut, crumbled a skosh at the base. I haven’t had this happen in about a year & with just a couple batches. I’d love to figure out why & eliminate the cause. Two soaps in two days did the same. 1st batch had sodium citrate, 2nd did not. Here’s recipe details: Lard (60%)...

@Zany_in_CO @Zing @TheGecko @AliOop How does one charge a friend for items that one makes but doesn’t typically sell? I don’t sell but do gift. I’ve been gifting bath products & candles for 3 years. I now have a few friend asking for special orders. I have been calculating my cost. I have been...

I’m a person that loves soapy science & testing. I always test “lather” same way for every bar of soap. After I lather up, I scrape all the suds off my hands & onto ledge/edge of stainless sink to let sit until soap bubbles have all “popped”. Here’s what I have noticed. Soap made with soy wax...

I made a small batch of soap yesterday (I4oz) & for 1st time ever I weighed out my CO & set in fridge because my kitchen was hot. WRONG MOVE! I found said CO in fridge this morning AFTER cutting a very crumbly soap. 🤦‍♀️OyVey! My question 🙋‍♀️ Can I shred the new soap, add my pre-measured CO...

I made a small 12oz oil batch of (60%lard/15% RBO/15%CO/10% castor) Plus FO & 1tsp ground oatmeal. I was making a weekday batch & although not rushing I managed to forget to weigh & add my RBO. I did not notice until filling my mold & noticed it should be more full. I quickly weighted out my...

Bought some OMH original FO from WSP a while back & the cherry was too overwhelming for my nose. I added some leftover Chocolate FO from NS to the bottle. Tried it out in a small 13oz batch with a spash of peppermint EO. I wanted to test out an embossing tool I made as well as a new soap...

A saponification chart got me hooked on soap making. This was my 1st lard with soy soap creation. 3%SF, added sodium citrate @ 2% of oils, 2:1 H2O ratio w/ 33% lye concentration. I’m loving the soap. Very smooth, creamy, bubbly & firm! Thoughts? 🧼🧼🧼

I made lotion bars for Christmas 1/4 CO, 1/8 cocoa butter, 1/8 Shea butter, 1/4 grape seed oil & 1/4 beeswax. I liked them but felt a skosh too greasy. Made another batch. Omitted CO & shea & left everything else in them. (= parts Beeswax, CO, grape seed oil) These lotion bars are hard but melt...

Today for 1st time ever, I used my new silicone column mold for a butterfly embed. I used a “hard” soap recipe & in loaf mold done 18hours. However, how long should I leave the silicone mold before attempting to release?

I have some AMAZING friends & received lots of soap supplies for my birthday 🥳. Today I received Rolio pigments/mica powder. The box claims to be safe for soap making but that doesn’t mean CP soap. I’m sure they are safe for “painting” soap tops but was wondering if anyone has tried them in CP...

A dear friend gave me some soap molds for my birthday. They are UNIQUE & I just have to squeeze in one last batch of ZNSC (Zany’s No Slime) using the new molds for Christmas. My fragrance is cozy flannel from my local soap supply shop. I’m expecting tan discoloration. Should I stick a solid...

Edit: I want to make, MAKE soap balls. Saw thread title without the word “make” & suddenly thinking of SNL. 🤣🤣🤣 I digress. @ScentimentallyYours I saw the comment regarding soap balls in another thread. Made me remember a FAVE handmade soap I used to purchase in Ojai, Ca @ a farmer’s market in...

I have a soap in mind that I do not want to go through gel phase. Cannot use my refrigerator. Can I simply place the freshly made soap outside in the cold weather for a couple of hours? If yes, should I do that immediately after the pour?

Arriving today is a 64 oz of “Gamma One” RBO. RBO is sold at my local soap supply shop but only in 8oz bottles & a bit more $$. Don’t so much care about the extra $$ to support a locally owned business but they will not re-fill my empty RBO bottles. I dislike all the plastic, so yesterday I...

🧼✨Hello Everyone! 🧼✨ This isn’t my 1st post here but after reading Zany_in_CO ask another to please post here 1st… 😬As my title suggests I fell in love with soap making when taking a soap coloring class with a friend. Prior to that I had been making soap with a group of women for a few years. We...

Sorry if this is a dumb a** question. Pretty sure I know the answer but… New to making a soap different that my typical once a year making a batch of Holy Trinity (Palm, CO, OO) soap. Anywhoo, does the “longevity” number given in the soap calculators refer to life without rancidity or simply how...

I’m currently reading Kevin Dunn’s book “Scientific Soapmaking”. I keep seeing that he used more lye than H20 & I thought the lye amount should not be greater than the H2O. No less than 1:1. Am I incorrect? Am I misreading? Apparently I can’t read. His “Lye” is a reference to a 5O% lye solution...

👋🏻 Hello Everyone, I am looking for a tried & true way to remove serious baked on grease from old sheet pans. A church group is looking to spruce up old sheet pans due to limited funds to purchase more. The pans have had the greasy leftovers baked on again & again. Does anyone know of a way to...