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I got a table saw for my birthday (everyone who I've told keeps saying, "that's a strange present for a 21-year old girl" :lol: ) and made myself a custom wooden mold. I used it for the first time last night, and that was also the first time I had used a wooden mold PERIOD. I can already see...

I'm used to making my soap in three pound batches, but I lost a batch of lavender (the most popular of my soaps) to DOS when some oil evaporated/condensed out, never reabsorbed, then developed... well, those dreaded orange spots. I have two identical molds, so I decided to bite the bullet and...

Just made the first of two batches of lavender. It feels good to get back to it! I just find the meticulousness of soap-making to be oddly soothing, haha. I'm hoping to make three more batches of soap before before I have to go back to Uni for my spring semester.

I'm a new soaper, but I've got friends and family who are already very eager to purchase my soap. My best friend's mom wanted some soap, so she ordered three different scents. I somehow mad managed to misplace the tissue paper I was originally going to use, so I improvised with what I could...

It's a sad truth! I go back to school on Sunday and will be unable to make soap for a little while! I had a good run this summer, though. I made sixteen 3lb batchs of cold process soap over the course of a month and a half! That's certainly nothing to scoff at! I'll probably still lurk the...

I have some relatives who have expressed interest in buying my soap, which is very awesome, but need some advice on how to mail it. It seems most people will want to get a few separate scents, so how do I go about boxing them in a way that causes minimal scent-mingling? The relatives that are...

So, I was wondering when I'd get hit with an accelerated trace, and it happened today! After reaching a light trace, I held my breath and poured in some rose scented fragrance oils... you can figure out the rest. ANYWAYS. A few dictatorships and nuclear wars later, I finally managed to scoop...

So I've been soaping with what seems to be a full water amount when it comes to the water:lye ratio. I was trying to figure out how to adjust this on Soapcalc and it seemed like switching to lye concentration and putting it at 33% was how to do it. This is how my recipe came out this time as...

One thing that I've dabbled in lately aside from soap is paper mache. I bought a doll/plushie for my best friend from etsy that's supposed to be Stephen Colbert, but the picture the artist took of the doll was of him sitting at this pathetic little desk make from cardboard. Pitying this poor...

Hi! My name is Iris and I've been researching soap making for a few months now, but only just found the time to actually get started about two and a half weeks ago. My first batch was a bit unattractive because I managed to overheat it, each batch since has been lovely! I have made six three...