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Here's how I think it might work; Take five small tubes(like a fat straw or something), put them down into your cylinder mold. Fill them with soap, then pull the tubes out. Cover the ends of the tubes and push them back down into the mold so they stay filled with air. Fill them with a different...

A word about expiration dates; http://today.law.harvard.edu/feature/thought-for-food/

The first batch I ever made had some insane temp like 180ºF for the lye and room temp for the oils, and it burnt the oils so bad I had to just throw it out(I also used regular Drano, which I suggest no one ever do ever). Ever since then I try to keep them within 10 degrees of each other before...

If anything it makes me think of pure, handcrafted soaps made the old fashioned way. If you make any soaps with goat milk from right off your farm that'd work even better.

Babies are WAY too young to be making soap!

I've had that happen before once. The chalky parts are like the middle of Whopper candies, right? I'm not sure what I did to make that happen, but I'm guessing my lye ratio was off on that recipe. When I was mixing it up, it started to seize, but I'd also had the ingredients at a low-ish...

Mineral pigments sounds like a fancy name for colored clay.

Cut the loaf with a cheese slicer for a more authentic effect!

This is the answer. The reason to use separate items is that you might taste soap or fragrance if you use them later for cooking. I already had SS cookware from making beer so that's what I use. I have a stick blender I use exclusively for soap, because I don't think I'll ever get the soap taste...

I think the OP figure of 7 cakes is way underestimated. Since I've idly wondered if otherwise useless human beings I know could be more useful rendered down to their constituent elements, I decided to math it up a little. According to Wikipedia, there's no one standard percentage of fat in a...

This thread needs a poll! Oh yes and to answer, my beard says I'm a guy.

My very first batch was not so lucky. Knowing nothing about soap, I bought drain cleaner. The ingredients said Sodium Hydroxide so I knew it would work. What it didn't list were all the aluminum flakes also embedded in the drain cleaner. It made a wonderful fizzing noise while it was...

With this playing in the background; http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-7Vu7cqB20 Thanks for the insight about festival booths. I'm just getting started, and although I won't be up for selling in booths for a few months, I like to know what to expect.

NDA's prices are terrible! Every single oil I priced out I can find in various other places for cheaper. I didn't even bother looking to see how much it'd cost with shipping, because even with shipping I can get my oils from elsewhere cheaper. I must be getting old, I wrote them an angry letter...

Thanks for that MzMolly! I think some kind of distillation setup is going to work best for what I want to accomplish, and that helps. I've dabbled in trying to make stills, but I've never had a reason to really get into making one. Once I figure out a good means of making a distiller, I think...

The best thing to remove the sticky resins would be rubbing alcohol. Even better would be to use nitrile gloves, wash the resins off of those into a pan and let it air dry, then smoke the res... I mean let me think! The best kind of soap I've used to remove those kinds of resins has had...

Please, I'd rather not see you getting rid of compactions, OK? That's another forum.

OK so you showed the stuff, but how do you actually use it? Are you attaching a bike pump to the valve to get the soap out or something?

Well that's very discouraging. I got all this lavender because my mom has a bunch of bushes on her property, and since they were stinking up her sewing room I offered to take them. I plan on selling my soaps some day soon, and it'd be nice if I basically have an unlimited supply. However, I'm...

I once added a lot of water to a particular batch by accident. At the time I didn't think anything of it. I waited almost a week to get back to cutting it, and it was like soft sticky cheese. It took about 2 months for the soap not to get goopy in the shower, and it shrank a whole lot. Nothing...