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Hi everyone! Made my first ever batch of a full milk soap (frozen goats milk used to substitute for lye). The lye and oils were at around 75F when combined, and I added 1 tsp of honey and 1 T of colloidal oats to the oils. I also used 20 g of a vanilla fragrance oil. The loaf went into the...

Hi Soapmakers! I've been really enjoying making my own cold process shampoo bars, and find that they just are wonderful for my hair. My hair felt so light and bouncy after the first wash, I couldn't believe it! I do use a very dilute apple cider vinegar wash, but haven't had to use conditioner...

Hi soapmakers! I was inspired by @dmcgee5034 who made a post about including a little QR code/ link card with your soap to get some user feedback; as a beginner soapmaker and scientist, I'm really looking forward to receiving and analyzing the responses! I also liked this approach because...

First attempt (hereby called the plop swirl 😂) is pictured here: First attempt at a feather swirl 🪶 and an acceleration rescue! 👍 I made sure I was at a light medium trace this time, and used I Dream in Soap's technique with a small teaspoon to gently add the green layers, making sure they laid...

Here was my first attempt at a feather swirl! 🪶 60% lard bar with TD, French green clay, and spirulina, scented with rosemary and mint EO. I learned a lot on this pour, mainly that my batter was way too thick to execute the layers I wanted when I compared to YouTube videos. Still, I think it...

Feeling rather proud of this one. I used Zany's no-slime castile recipe, with 85%OO/10%CO/5%CastO. Then split the batch 25/75 TD/Rose kaolin clay, and did an angled ombre pour by slowly diluting my white with pink. I remembered to do the tappa tappa with each layer, and also to gradually decline...

My new custom soap stamp arrived in the mail! I went to it on the bars curing up, and I am so pleased with the results. These are just Christmas gifts for friends and family (will add labels before gifting), but don't they look gorgeous?!

Dear piggy fat soap makers! 🐷 I've got three or four 1 lb batches of lard soaps at different percentages curing up. And it made me curious. What properties do you like about lard? How do you find the performance, skin-friendliness, hardness, scent retention, etc.? Have you landed on your...

Let me just start by just saying how proud I am of this little test bar! There were a lot of things I was trying at once: using an accelerating essential oil blend I made myself (rose geranium with orange and patchouli), pouring layers at trace thick enough to hold a layer but thin enough for...

Hello lovely soap makers! I got my delivery of beautiful essential oils from New Directions Aromatics, and am at a bit of a loss where to start! I've done the preliminary research into EO Calc and some of the suggested blends, as well as top/middle/base note blending, but I would LOVE to pick...

Hi experienced soapers! Well, my beginner's luck had to run out at some point. I made a Franken soap tonight. 😭😭😭 Recipe and photo attached. All was going swimmingly until I added the essential oils (equal parts peppermint, white thyme, and eucalyptus at 3% weight of oils). As soon as the oils...

I am very new to soap making (two loaves in!), and was not impressed with the generic soap cutter I got off Amazon that came with pastry-cutter knives. I found they totally mashed up the soap, and there was so much play in the slots that it was hard to achieve a solid straight cut. Introductory...

I made my second ever soap! This was a lard heavy loaf at 60%. So much fun cutting it into bars, that may be my favourite part of soap making so far! I am enjoying the 1 lb/ 500 g blocks to experiment with, especially since I need to impatiently wait 4 - 6 weeks to know how they really perform!

Hello, clever soap makers! I would really like to attempt a pink clay salt bar, inspired by this video. The author of the video seems to be very knowledgeable and experienced, and the product looks gorgeous. And fascinating, as salt bars are definitely out of the ordinary for me! I have read...

But you do have a 48 oz one! :P I only have larger molds and didn't want to run out to buy a smaller 1 lb mold, so I used the miter saw to cut a piece of wood the right size, and wrapped that in parchment. Used an elastic to secure it to the wood sleeve. It worked a treat, and even the thinner...

Hello! Beginner here! I made my very first (!) loaf of soap, on October 7th, and sliced it on October 8th (14ish hours was probably too soon, but we were heading out of town and I didn't know if it would be rock hard after that - turned out it would've been fine!). We got home today, and I...

Hello Soapers! (Soapmakers? Soapists? What is the correct term?) I'm new to soap-making, and also haven't been on a forum since the ICQ days so hopefully I'm doing this right! I love learning all manner of new hobbies, and when I recently turned over the labels from soaps made by one of my...