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Hi! I forgot to add my castor oil to my recipe. I have a recipe with OO, Coconut, Palm, Palm Kernel oil, and castor. I superfatted at 5% and the castor oil was 5% of my recipe. Is it lost? Or have I just made Laundry bar soap?

Hi! I was hoping to make my own butter blends...I notice that often the butter blends are a mix of avocado oil with soybean oil. Has anyone ever tried to make their own blend? I was thinking of making a blend of evening primrose, argan and soybean...do you see any issues with this? Would I...

Hi! I want to rebatch some cp soap I made about a week ago...is it too soon? Thank you!

Do you think if I rebatched it the mica would blend with the soap or would it still end up staining?

Hi! I seem to have the worst luck with blue oxide (and sometimes purple). It tends to morph into other yucky tones. Does anyone know of a brand of blue that they never have problems with? I spend a lot of time planning my colors then they just go all cameleon on me :( and I'm searching for a...

Hi! I tried my hand for the first time at doing a pencil line in cold process soap with mica, as well as a mica swirl on the top of the soap. Now that the soap is cut, when I touch it my hands look like they have eye-shadow on them. Does this always happen? Will it go away? Or do I need to...

I also don't like the silicon liners since they can rip the sides of your soap apart, etc. I just cut a bunch of freezer paper ahead of time and it takes less than a minute to line the mold. I personally feel like freezer paper works best with CP as far as liners are concerned. If you havent...

Hi! I was considering using lanolin in a solid lotion bar but was wondering if anyone has already done that and if they liked the final product, etc. Just a lot of money to invest if so wanted some feedback on how it has worked for you. THe lotion bar recipe I use now has cocoa butter, shea...

Hi! I am about to buy colorants for my cp soap. Which do you prefer and why: micas or oxide? Thanks!

Hi! I have had quite a few people shy away from buying soap that has sweet almond oil or hazelnut oil because they have nut allergies. Would that affect them? Should I just avoid using them in my recipes? Thanks for the help! Ann Marie

I use grapeseed oil in soap and it is one of my best recipes.

Thanks for doing this!

I like Rustic Essentuals, Crafters Choice, Bramblerry. There are others with good ones but I just try to narrow down my suppliers to make things simpler. Good luck.

I know it may be a task but it is worth getting a weebly or wix site and putting it together yourself. It takes a bit of learning but you can learn and you can call and they can help you if you get stuck but if you actually learn how to do it then you can update it as needed which means more...

Dear Cold Process Soapers, I am in the process of organizing my soap kitchen and now that I have so many things I am wondering if anyone has tips on how they organize all their things in the kitchen alongside the normal kitchen stuff. Would really love any ideas on how to store all my FOs...

HI! Okay, after making 50 tubes of lip balm I found out my recipe is grainy and needs to be changed. Does anyone have a simple way of emptying out my tubes and cleaning them or am I doomed to disaster? Thanks for the advice!

Hi! I was wondering why some of my beer soaps sweat? Is there any solution to that? will waiting it out make i go away?

Hi! I made a bunch of lip balm that i liked in the moment. I went on vacation and was in the sun a lot and my lip balm was very grainy and melted more than I imagined. this is the recipe I used: Mango butter, Cocoa Butter, beeswax, castor & avocado oil, vit e, flavor oil. what can I do to...