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Alright, enough of you have posted great sounding Gardener's Soap recipes that I thought I'd hop on the bandwagon and give it a try. This will be marketed as a highly exfoliating and tough cleansing soap - not my normal sensitive skin friendly soap. Thoughts on the beta recipe before I make a...

I made 4 loaves of Zany's No Slime Castile this past week. I've had a few customers request Coconut Oil Free soap, so I thought this would be a good opportunity to try Castile. The short curing time of Zany's method (supposed to be 2 weeks) was also very appealing, as my sales have been much...

Really happy with how my line of tea themed soaps is coming along. I've been doing a lot of recipe tweaking, and today all 4 batches of the latest iteration turned out great! I'm waiting on my Masala Chai FO to arrive (it was so hard to find a skin safe one!) as well as a set of coffee themed...

Today I did the rounds of a few local restaurant supply stores to pick up tools to increase my production batch size. While I was there, I found what is essentially a 5-gallon food-grade bucket with a liquid dispenser. (Basically this...

Hey there, I came across this forum during my obsessive research and reading when I was first learning about soaping. I've been silently perusing/lurking for a while (yes I read all 40-something pages of the deodorant development, as well as the rise and fall of Genny's shampoo bar). I've read...

Hi guys! I've been tweaking and testing my recipes this spring. This recipe is the "base" of my basic bar soaps. Vegan and palm-free are very important in my local market, which is making formulation... tricky. Trying to "perfect" my base before I start playing with fun colors, designs, and...