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From the research I had saved, Decyl glucoside does have a stable foam. I believe I got this info from Formula Botanica when I was looking up natural surfactants.

Health conscious and mostly green person here. I like the idea of the shampoo bar, but have never tried one. I have very long hair, usually midback or longer. The idea of rubbing a bar on my head brings images of a huge rats nest on the top of my head. Liquid is just easier, I can lather...

Heat helps dissolve the crystals and it really doesn't take much. You can place the container you measured it into in a bowl of hot water and stir or swirl and it will dissolve much more quickly.

They have been updating on EO's as well.

I noticed it was lowered as well. You can barely use spearmint at all and I prefer it to peppermint which psychologically reads more medicine to me personally. :( After reading this Pubmed, I am not sure why it was lowered given that they said the risk for skin irritation was low and they...

Not sure how suggesting doing more research is incorrect or dangerous, but you are entitled to your opinion on the matter. Nobody is suggesting they eat the soap. You realize people chew tobacco right. In the state of California it must be displayed that Coffee causes cancer. Everyone has to...

I think it would require a little more research. This FDA source feels a bit like propaganda on the war against tobacco to me. Even grapes, apples and pears have been found to have arsenic in them. Root vegetables are especially prone to drawing up pesticides and other things in the soil, but...

I am no expert as I've only made pine tar soap once, but I am wondering if you added the pine tar straight out of the container or did you heat it up. The recipe I worked off of recommended heating the tar with the oils which I did and that allowed it become very fluid and mix together easier I...

Some people just don't use it do to the many additives that can be in it and they want to control the ingredients to avoid these.

Just curious if you tried to remedy first, like adding more water or superfat, or did you just switch to oxide right away for ease?

I bought Red Palm once for cooking thinking I was going to get all these antioxidants and it was going to be great for Thai & Indian food. It just made such a mess of everything that I have never bought it since. I did think it might work for coloring soap, but thanks for the warning. Fool me...

Not sure anyone would like to go through this much trouble, but here is info on making hard water so you can test yourself (it's just a few ingredients). As much as I hate the hard water and how it deposits where I am living now, I guess I am lucky as I work my formulas to produce a better...

I wouldn't assume that because they are doing only 2 ingredients that it is better somehow. It's just easy to mass produce and it's cheaper. They can call it whatever they like, "Luxury". That words holds no value other than the price tag. As with anything, you wouldn't expect good health to...

I wipe everything out with a cleaning rag which I will bag up and put into the laundry with a load a few days later. I wash everything using a liquid soap I also make. Occasionally after everything drips dry I will notice a film like I didn't wash it as well as I thought... plastic can be so...

I also found great info here related to shrinkage and cutters. https://www.soapguild.org/how-to/make-soap/choosing-a-soap-cutter.php

I have also "assumed" that since they use ml on some bottles that they are using volume and therefore, fluid ounces. Of course they could switch back and forth, but that seems like it would create a nightmare in the manufacture/packaging/inventory department so I again "assume" they do not do...

The main reason people want to use glass is chemicals in plastics. I find the plastic stuff is more difficult to get the oil residues off as well. I hand wash and then still run it through the dishwasher.

Every time a box gets dropped outside the kids or my husband say, "It must be more soaping stuff." I feign indignation and then quietly sneak off to my room to open it.

It is still sold for tooth pain. It's even sold for baby teething; my daughter used Herbs for Kids, Gum-omile Oil.

Thanks! It was near the top of the feed and I wasn't paying attention.