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These are a few of my soaps that I have done lately. Lots of fun for sure. My piping rose work needs more practice for sure! But it was fun anyway. The orange soap has the juice from our homegrown carrots as the lye liquid.

A little back round on the ingredients and process used to make this soap. My sweet MIL bought us a CSA veggie box that we got from a local organic farm for a couple of months. We enjoyed all the fresh veggies and even got brown Jasmine rice in the box one week. This week was our last box...

I took up the challenge to make a New Years Batch of Castile Soap. It was my first time making a 100% OO soap. 3 ingredients. OO, Lye & Distilled Water. I used a silicone mold with square cavities. They popped out nicely before 24hrs. I had done a water discount and it didn't take too long...

I ordered some coconut oil from Soaperschoice. Its the first time I have ever ordered from them. And its the first time I have ever seen coconut oil that has this yellow-ish color. ?????? :shock::shock::shock: It has absolutely no odor and has the right texture. Does anyone else order...

I found this to be quite amusing when I made this the other day. I made 2 batches of Oatmeal, Cream & Honey soap. One with Oatmeal, Milk and Honey FO from oregontrailsoaps. And one batch without FO. I REALLY, REALLY love this FO from OTS. There is not a trace of almond in this FO. It does...

I obviously use a digital scale for soaping. I also use it for weighing out the ingredients for my gluten free flour blend that I have to use because I have Celiac. My sister has decided to try eating gluten free also, since it has helped me feel so much better. But she doesn't have a scale...

Life Situations Illness Vacations House Chores Making Food For Your Family To Eat For Dinner Laundry Gardening Needing Sleep Going To Work Kids Underfoot and the list can go on and on........ Since school let out at the beginning of summer I have had about 10 million things getting in the...

I sometimes run across videos on YouTube that demonstrate techniques that I have seen people asking questions about how to do it. Or it may be one that I have wanted to see demonstrated. I thought this might be a good place to post them so that I don't forget where they are! Lol! I will...

I have been waiting to buy more coconut oil until a sale. Every little bit helps. The sale is only today until 9pm Site wide.

I actually got to stay home yesterday evening. I have been running crazy lately so it was nice! I decided to give my new (new to me from the flea market) crockpot a try with a batch of HP soap. Since it was the 4th of July this is what we did. I certainly have more growing and learning to do...

I have seen soaps come in many shapes. Geometric, Floral, Animal, Inanimate objects and etc. But when I joined SMF I saw a few cupcake shaped soaps and maybe some citrus or watermelon shaped MP as well. Now on Facebook there seems to be an explosion(maybe I just didn't see them before) of...

I purchased a pvc pipe awhile back. I hadn't had a chance to try it out yet. I ended up having to cut a piece off of it to use for a different project. I now have 19" of the pipe left. I am wondering what length you pvc users use? Of course I could modify any recipe to whatever size.....but...

This bar is going to be so moisturizing! It already feels like a dream when we cut it. This batch was the first time that my daughter helped me do any soaping. She really enjoyed it and insisted that she cut the bars. With Silk and Shea Butter. 10% SF

Do you ever have anyone ask you for "Just plain Lye Soap"? I don't sell my soaps. But I am quick to give them as gifts......sometimes wanted.....sometimes I wonder, maybe unwanted. Hahaha!!!! Anyway we went to a cook out and I took a bunch of soaps. I knew a few of the ladies that were...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SVMcN0ca7xQ This video shows handcrafted soapmakers in such a positive light. It interviews the president of the Soapmakers Guild and a few more. I was really pleased to see this.

I recently read that someone had tried using Rooibos tea as their lye water to make a CP soap. It was a really cool color. I haven't been making much soap in the last few weeks and had some free time today and wanted to try something different. I brewed 8 bags or so of the tea in scalding hot...

So, I read plenty about this.....that it may/would happen. But its still a bummer when I see that its actually happening here. The large Olive Oil that I usually get at my local Sam's Club used to be $10.88. Its now $12.88. Boohoo!!!

I have just been running(or rather slowly walking:crazy:) on empty for the last couple of months! Just seriously exhausted. I had been wondering......seriously, whats up with that?! I am behind on everything "Spring" this year. I had to go to the Dr to get a referral renewed and started...

So, I hate cleaning of that silly hanger. Tape, straws, chop sticks.......Gah! So I hadn't done a hanger swirl for awhile, but had wanted to. Then one day I was in the garage (which is in serious need for organizing) and I spotted my extra tubing from the fish tank. Its the really soft...

I hope I didn't bite off more than I can chew. This soap I just made has homemade beer, cream and honey as part of the ingredients. So far so good.