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Heya all! I have been making soap off and on for a few years now. I had been a member when I was first starting out and then my life blew up and I was not able to make any soap or be on the forums for a while. I have been feeling the itch to make some more soap with the weather getting cooler...

This is my newest soap using Mountain Lake FO from Peak. I used TD and cobalt ultramarine for colorants.

Can any clay be used to anchor scents or are some clays better then others? I was thinking of picking up some bentonite and was wondering how that would work? Thank you in advance for your advice :-)

A Busy Weekend for Soap (Added Cut Pic) These are a couple of what I was up to this weekend as far as soap was concerned. I did my first naturally colored soap using the FO Country Garden and alkanet root powder. The other is my (of course late for the Great Cakes Challenge) first mica swirl...

if I like this or not. This is my personal challenge soap for the Elemental Swirl Challenge from Great Cakes Soapworks. I am late again, but I wanted to do the challenge to challenge myself. I had been stewing over the idea of this one since I saw the video and wanted to do something that was...

I used Peak's Birds of Paradise in my salt bars yesterday and so far, I am a bit disappointed. While I did not note any acceleration or ricing, my nice cream colored salt bars are a nice dark brown today. This is not the end of the world though. The bad news with it is that the scent that had...

I am contemplating making a salt bar for my next soap, I was planning on using 90% Coconut Oil, 5% Shea Butter, 5% Castor Oil with 20% SF (though I will take suggestions on all of this). I am planning on adding 75% sea salt, but I only have coarse sea salt. Is it okay to use coarse grain or...

So, I am behind on doing the challenge from Great Cakes Soapworks, but I really wanted to try the Tiger Stripe, so I did it late (I just got my mold over the weekend or I would have tried it sooner!) Anyway, the fragrance is Sun and Sand, and I used a bit of TD and red mica for the colors. The...

Well, after doing some research into the area where I am living (I just moved here a few months ago), I ended up being inspired by a local legend. While not actually in my town the neighboring town of Leominster, hold the birthplace of a person that many of you have likely heard of in school...

Well, this soap is several firsts for me... it was my first time using a slab mold (cardboard box), my first batch over one pound (this was four), and my first sculpted top. As has been normal for me, I worried about reaching trace and mixed more then I should have before I split it up to add...

My order from Peak came in today! So, the list of fragrances is: Applejack and Peel Asian Sandalwood Blackberry Sage Cinnamon and Balsam Juniper Breeze Jasmine Lavender Lilac Midsummer Night x2 Red Clove Sage and Lemongrass x2 White Tea and Ginger Mountain Lake Nag Champa Frasier Fir Black...

Is there a place to find out about rules for naming a business? Like how different does a name have to be from another business and things like that? I would love to have the word "badger" in my business name and there is already a "Badger Balm" business that makes lip balms and soaps and...

Okay, I have an 8" x 8" box that I was thinking of filling about 3" full of soap. I did the math for the mold and figured I would need 76.8 ounces of oils for that space (8x8x3x.4=76.8). That much I get easy enough. When it comes to me trying to cut these bars and how many bars this should...

So, I went out yesterday and bought some wood and nails attempt to put together a couple soap molds. I bought a furring strip as suggested and had a minor problem when I bought it. I had wanted some 3" segments for the ends and was informed that they couldn't cut them that small because the...

Well, I just took this out of the mold tonight and cut it. I think the pictures make it look a bit better then it actually does, I am hoping that the curing process helps the color a bit with it. I used black mica from Conservatorie and Red Oxide from WSP for the colorants. The scent is BB's...

So, are we having a new challenge for the month of April? I know locale was a close second on our last challenge. Are we looking for more challenge topics? I really enjoy the challenges, and hope we can/will keep doing them :-)

I was looking at colorants on WSP and noticed that there are two kinds of TD listed and I was wondering what the difference between them was. One was water soluble and the other was soluble in oils. I am kind of confused, because the only ingredients listed on both of them was TD. How can the...

I am about to run out the door to spend the day with some friends, but I wanted to show my latest creation that I unmolded at about 2 am when I got home after being with friends late last night. I hope to catch up the forum late tonight or tomorrow, but also wanted to post a pic for all of you...

I would like to say thank you to marghewitt who kindly sent me some FOs that she no longer wanted. When the package arrived today, I felt like a kid on Christmas morning :-) I love how thoughtful everyone is on this forum and I am proud to be here and hope to one day be able to pay forward...

Peak's is having a sale of there Fragrance Oil sampler packs for 40% off. It would be your choice of 10 1 oz bottles. I am not sure how much shipping would come out to, but the oils themselves would be a little over $13 with the special. The sale ends April 2nd, and the code is SAMPLEMANIA13...