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I have a bottle of fragrance oil from SweetCakes, and I thought it might make a nice perfume, so I emailed the company and requested the IFRA usage rates for it, and got a somewhat condescending reply about basic ranges for CP and MP soap, and if I am making lotion or shower gel I will want to...

First of all let me say that I detest making CP soap. It isn't my fault, CP started it and hates me right back. If it tells you a different story it is lying. There was a thread here a while back about using ACV in soap and how you can't do it, and I was sure I had seen on another forum that...

In another thread about using different citrus juices in soap, someone commented that adding citric acid to soap will react with lye and create sodium citrate. Is there an easy way to determine how much citric acid would be needed to produce how much sodium citrate? In other words, let's say I...

Has anyone used this? I have read the website a couple times and I am still not quite clear on how to use it. http://www.chemistrystore.com/Soap_Maki ... trate.html Do you have to use Germaben II or can you use another preservative? Do you HAVE to use the Conditioning Additive or the Q-Pearl...

I tried CPOP soap and it is just not working... My recipe is 40% OO, 30% lard, 25% CO, 5% castor, 5% SF... also added 1% SL, fragrance... My oils may have been a little warm when I started, around 135, lye was room temp, SB'd to mediium trace, then into the mold, covered w parchment paper, into...

I mean it is perfectly fine for doing what bees need it for, storing honey... But I have tried a number of soap recipes that use a small amount of beeswax, and I hate it! First of all, maybe those recipes are not meant to be used HP, because once it reaches trace it quickly becomes a...

Yep. I made soup. I was trying for soap but it is indeed soup. 24 hours later I have a slightly dry crust-like top, and the rest is still liquid. I HP'd in the crockpot, all went well but by the time I poured it seems a little thin, but nothing alarming... Until this morning when it was still...

I was just wondering if anyone had tried using flavor extracts or concentrates as a soap fragrance. Someone else's thread on using beer in soap and how to fragrance it brought it to mind. http://www.midwestsupplies.com/other-pr ... ences.html These are designed to flavor grain alchohol...

I have no clue what I did wrong... I wanted to use coconut milk, so I sloooooooowly poured the lye into the milk, just a little at a time, stir stir stir. The container started feeling a bit warm, not hot just warm, so I put it in an ice bath to keep it nice and cool (so as not to scorch the...

I have been able to find almost everything locally, lard, CO, OO, lye, I can find castor oil and vegetable glycerin at the drugstore, I even found a local source for PO, found stearic acid... but I have no idea where to find sodium lactate. I did order some online today, but all the major...

Hello, all After much searching and learning that any recipe can become a goat's milk soap recipe by replacing the water, I am attempting to formulate something I like. I use CPHP, so I will be splitting my water between my lye solution and a very concentrated goat milk powder slushy paste to...

When is enough too much? Let's say I want a nice white bar of soap so I use TD. This is for someone with skin problems so maybe I add some zinc oxide too. I want to use a citrus scent so I need to anchor it with a bit of cornstarch. I want to make sure the bars are nice and firm so I am using...

Ok, not literally out in the rain... I just got all my new fragrances from Peak, but it is supposed to storm like crazy here for the next few days. I live in a hot humid climate, and even indoors with the a/c on the humidity makes a difference in how the temperature feels. Has anyone noticed...

Please help! I found these at Micheal's, they were right between the soap supplies and the candle supplies, but there is no indication anywhere on the package what they are for! It is decorware invent a scent fragrance kit. They do not say if they are for use in bath and body products, if they...

I'm wondering if anyone can help me with the process for making this soap. After reading Catherine Failor's Making Transparent Soap, I would like to try this method. One of the methods outlined is the alcohol/lye method, wherein you add the alcohol at the beginning of the cook along with...

Hello, all :) I have learned so much from this wonderful site, finally decided to sign up and join in! I am very new to soapmaking, and I tend to get interested in something for a while then drift away to something else, but the things I enjoy sooner or later I come back to. And now I am back...