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The salad shooter sounds like a good idea. Thanks for the feedback!

I have several pounds of soap I want to rebatch, is there any power way to do this? I was thinking a food processor, but before I attempt anything I'm curious if anyone has tried it before. Please let me know if you have any ideas.

I have let some of my bars cure for 6+ months, and they are still somewhat soft compared to mass-produced soap. I primarily use this recipe: 12oz coconut oil 12oz olive oil 9.5oz soybean oil 8oz palm oil 12.5oz distilled water 6oz lye heat oils to 100f mix lye and water, let it cool to 100f...

She claimed to be making the soap herself. Would it make a difference if were to rebatch a soap 3 times versus just doing it once? Does it get harder every time you rebatch? I definitely don't have an industrial setting with high-pressure steel rollers - so anything I would be doing to make my...

Hi guys, I have been making CP soap with fairly consistent success. I have only heard positive things about my soap, but nobody raves about it. To me, my soap feels soft and does not last as long as I would like. Not too long ago I went to a craft fair and saw a CP soaper. She told me that...

I ended up going with bramble berry (because I have learned from her YouTube videos and didn't realize she had a website). Now I also want to get a nice mold, any suggestions for a site that has very nice but affordable molds? I am talking about 3lb+ batch molds.

I was just doubling whatever it had said on the bottle / web site. The oils are supposed to be very concentrated - I don't remember my exact ratio - but I know that is was double what the site/bottle recommended for CP. Is HP soap fragrance much better?

Wow /facepalm - I meant http://www.sweetcakes.com/ - for some reason i had baby cakes in my head. I had been getting my fragrances from sweet cakes.

Hi everyone, I am looking to make a few batchs of CP soap in January - and am making my christmas list of fragrances/colors. I found this list: http://candleandsoap.about.com/od/soapm ... colors.htm of natural colorants, but the ingredients tend to be pricey on amazon.com ($10-25 per...

I often use the same recipe with different amounts of water. Depending upon how fast I want thick trace to form, I subtract or add water to my recipe. The most water I will use is 2.5x the amount of lye used. The least I will use it 1.5x the lye used. I have never had a problem with this...

Thanks for the feedback, it's definitely an amateur video. It is Pyrex, which I thought could withstand the lye. Should I use plastic instead?

I made a video tutorial on how I make CP soap - Please feel free to comment / criticize / rate it. Check it out here: http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=7EA3543F30A7E7C2 Thank you! I plan to make more of these in the future

That is exactly what I have been looking for, thank you very much! Any additional information on the following ingredients would make my day: Peanut Oil Beeswax Sugar Salt Milk Oatmeal

I have found that my soap often smells funny out of the mold, but then the smell goes away after a week or two. The only time it has persisted was when I didn't add any fragrance to my lard soap. My oatmeal soap smelled especially bad out of the mold, but now it smells great. Very weird.

I have searched and searched for descriptions of what different oils can instill in soap. The most comprehesive information I have found was at http://www.soap-making-resource.com/fatty-acids-soap-making.html But that only shows what the different acids do. Does anyone have a list of...

I'm also curious about testing strips. I have cheap pool testing strips that give me a basic Ph readout, but I'm looking for something more precise. It would be especially nice if I had something that could detect and warn me about heavy bases like something that would be caustic. At which Ph is...

I am a bit concerned that I may have a lye burn, and I am loooking for some feedback on what to expect. I am on my third batch, and it came out very nice (5% superfat). After 18 hours the soap was hard enough to take out of the mold - and I cut it. In this stage is the soap still raw, and not...