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Thank you so much to you all. I went ahead and bought one of those little ones on Amazon!

Hi all! I’m ready to invest in a quality scale. The one I’ve been using is the BB “perfect scale” and while it works ok for larger measurements, anything in the 0.1 range is consistently inaccurate with the numbers jumping all around back and forth, shooting up from 0 to 0.2 no matter how...

This all so helpful! Thank you so much!

Thank you! Thanks especially for the tip to cover after cutting. A few of my batches indeed have looked fine until I cut them and set them out to cure in my freezing garage! I will give that a shot.

I have been happily soaping for the last three weeks and have 13 batches under my belt. I am soaping in a very cold environment and keep getting soda ash, no matter how much 99% alcohol I spray on top. I bought a handheld steamer to remove it. When do I steam? After unmolding but before...

You all are amazing! Thank you so much for your expert insight. And I am so grateful for your encouragement. I’m not opposed to gelling at all, or not gelling for that matter! :-) I just don’t want the two-tone result of partial gel. I will definitely try out these suggestions, the CPOP...

Hi all! I was happy to find this soapmaking forum and am excited to join the community! I was hoping for some advice right off the bat. I made my very first batches of cold process soap in the past week and a half, and I seem to be getting partial gel no matter what I do. I used the "Simple...