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I bought this great little boxed mould. Do I need to towel wrap it as well or will it be sufficient in itself?

I want to make some large bars for animal use using neem, it’s so effective for sweet itch in horses. However I see neem in the soap calc so I need to use it as an oil rather than making a bar and adding it as an essential oil. I want the soap to be effective and wondered what’s the highest...

this was my first recipe using black seed oil. Pic below

Looking to source supplies in Ireland so if you can recommend anywhere with reasonable shipping please reply. Also looking for a few bits to buy.

is there any info regarding next beofre dates when labelling soap? I suppose it depends on the amount of oils prone to going rancid.

ive found some black seed oil (cumin seed) that I’m excited to incorporate into a recipe. Has anyone got any info about it’s qualities and use on soap and what oils it’s good with? I’m superfatting at 5% with it,

I’m looking for a basic recipe that just uses coconut oil and sunflower oil - as these are so readily available for me. Many thanks in advance. Xx

Hey, im still a newbie so sorry if this is a daft question.. The gelling process - can anyone explain the whole thing - and then compare it to when your soap doesnt go thru the process. Just thinking of my GM and choc bars, the bars that were insulated gelled and made a dark bar, the ones left...

Saw some Rooibos and Orange herbal tea, so had a plan.. discounted some of the water in the recipe and made a concentrated tea with a few of the bags, also emptied the bags into the tea. Made the recipe as normal, at trace added back the water infusion and added a large cup of ground star anise...

So about Ph, if you do a test with a ph testing paper and your soap comes out after say two weeks curing with a ph of about 9-10, obviously this is way too high, what ph are you aiming for? Most of mine are on a 9 at curing stage of 3 weeks in.

Thought that this looked fairly simple. like the idea of using the lye to melt the hard oils too. http://www.soap-making-essentials.com/homemade-soap-recipe-goat-milk.html

Substituted half the water content for goats milk. Coloured with cocoa powder and this also gave it a chocolatey scent which I boosted a bit with a Butter Bee FO. The ones in the small molds are holding the colour, whilst the one in the square mold which i have wrapped in towels is changing. so...

I did a full GM recipe yesterday..substituted gm for water, and on adding the lye it curdled as I expected it would, added oils and stick blended, no added extras in this one,but the curdling disappeared, and I have a clear mold and can see that its setting beautifully, although im going to...

So tell me if its viable before I do it! Wanted to do a plain goats milk soap, using fresh milk. The recipe I had in mind was my basic one, but adding half of the normal water content, then the lye, then the oils etc, and at the end where you would normally add fo's etc, add the rest of the...

I had an idea to make a nice pink bar this evening.. I infused the water for a few seconds with some fruit tea, and it turned out a lovely fuschia shade.. When i added the Soda, the mixture immediately turned green, then a deep creamy caramel colour...and went into the molds just now a nice...

For you seasoned soapers, when do you like to cut - after taking from the molds, or after leaving to cure for a few weeks? Im after a uniform, neat edged bar, have cut my first few batches straight from the mold but the edges dont come out too clean.. Is it going to be too hard to cut if i make...

I have a bucket of dead sea salt blended with lavender buds and oatmeal that I make bath bags from, can i add a scoop of this to my soap before putting into molds, or will the salt just melt? thank you!

Second batch for me - used a half teaspoon grapefruit seed extract as recommended in Melinda Coss's book to speed up trace time. Used a recipe with coconut oil, rapeseed and sunflower oil. Recipe doesnt call for temp monitoring. Did the figure 8 drizzle and didnt see anything happen, but being...

Melinda coss's book says Grapefruit Seed extract can speed up trace time, but i cant find and instructions on usage, so do any of you use it to speed up your trace times?

Hi all, im looking for a uk/ireland/europe based supplier of essential oils, as I need lavender and patchouli in bulk - ive looked at a lot of sites but only a small few do bulk oils and they are usa based..Can anyone recommend a site i can get them from, to complicate things im in ireland...