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I made a batch a few month back with dead sea powder and I've got to say after using it for a bit, I'm not liking much. It is pretty rough and not in a nice exfoliating kind of way, more an irritating scratchy way. I can't remember how I added the powder exactly, I'd like to think I mixed it...

I am experimenting with clays to try and get some natural colour to my soaps but it's not really going as planned tbh. I did an orange fragrance and used some red clay in the hope it would be orange but it looked more brown. Then I did a rooibos and star anise and used a pink clay (and cocoa...

I have been going backwards and forwards with my bath products, trying to get the recipe right and each time I think I've cracked it, another problem arises. I started off with a fairly simple blend of just salts and EOs but felt it did nothing for the skin. So then I added oils and butters...

I used Lavender EO at 2% and tried using it today after a 6 week cure and theres nothing, not even a faint whiff. I'm so disappointed :( I'm going to do a rebatch with it anyway and add lavender flowers, so I guess I could add more scent but I don't understand why it didn't stick. I've never...

A couple of batches I did recently didn't turn out too good appearance wise so I'm planning a rebatch. I've had a look at some vids on youtube and I've got the gist of how to do it and although I was actually not too keen to begin with, I'm now a little bit excited about the possibilities, such...

Anyone else had problems with using mango butter in soap? I've used it twice now and both times it ruined the batch. The first time it didn't melt properly during the heat transfer stage (I soap at room temp) and although I tried to stick blend the lumps out, I couldn't because it reached trace...

If I use goats milk or something similar in place of water, would splitting it 50/50 mean I don't have to freeze the milk. The reason I'm asking is because I soap at work and I don't have a freezer there. I considered freezing it at home and taking the ice cubes to work but suspect that they'll...

I decided to try out something new with my oatmeal soap today, I infused the water with oatmeal and then strained off the oats (I think I read about it somewhere) and used it for the lye / water stage. But it gave off a horrible burnt oats smell and afterwards I noticed there was a strange brown...

Anyone else had issues with them not dissolving quick enough? I just had a bath with them and the bottom of the bath felt gritty as I moved around, not very pleasant. I've never noticed this with the sea salt soaks I've made, so I'm assuming it is the himalayan salts, but so many people seem to...

Is 30% CO too drying / cleansing? I'll be superfatting at 8% and I've put it through soapcalc and it appears to be within the ideal ranges for everything but with a cleansing value of 20, I was wondering it might be a bit too drying. What do you think? :)

I did a batch of soap today, using the room temp / heat transfer method which I've done a few times before with no problems. However, this time when I added the lye water to the grated mango butter, it just didn't seem to want to melt. I stirred and stirred and used the stick blender and then it...

I have some vanilla extract in glycerol, can I use this for CP or will the glycerol effect it at all?

So, I made some lavender bath salts about a month ago and used lavender flowers as well as EO. Now when I used it today, it smelled lovely but the lavender flowers didn't look very nice, they where brown giving the impression of rat poo floating on the top of my bath water! Now I know this...

What are these droplets? They were present on my soap the day after making and as they dry out they became white spots. I have very cautiously done a zap test and think its ok in that respect, so don't think its lye but what is it then? Once cured, is it safe to use?

Obviously I can't afford to use rose EO to scent my soap but I was wondering if there are other (effective) ways to do it. I was thinking of infusing rose petals in OO and using rose water for the water part but I've got a feeling that I'd be wasting both my time and money. Would the scent from...

For my first batch of bath bombs, I sprayed them with a little water as per the recipe but they started fizzing immediately and I ended up with a big splodgy mess. So I did some research to see how to remedy this and discovered that different people were using different methods, some were using...

Is it possible to do embeds in an individual soap mould? I would like to do something like this but I'm assuming this is a sliced loaf. Does anyone have any experience of doing embeds in single moulds? How did you go about it and how did it turn out?

With my essential oil candles I was advised to box them and leave them to cure for a couple of weeks to allow the scents to strengthen and mature. I'm wondering if this practice is also used for essential oil butters, balms and bath products? The reason why I ask is because I have recently been...

I have read about lye pockets a few times on here and I'm assuming that they are small areas of the soap where there is some lye lurking but that it isn't in the whole bar iykwim. So my question is, is a zap test an appropriate test for lye pockets? would it be possible to zap test and assume...

I have made a few batches of soap which are still curing. I've got about a week till the first ones ready, so I've not used any of them yet. I have used an individual bar, silicone mold for all 5 batches but for the first 3 batches I left the mold uncovered (to prevent gelling) and for the other...