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    Laundry soap question

    Hi everyone. For clothes that have set oily stains (I always seem to get these on sweatshirts) I was thinking about making a really lye-heavy bar of laundry soap and using the shredded soap + borax + washing soda recipe, or using the bar as a stain stick - reasoning that lye might attract the...
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    Goats milk soap fail

    Hi everyone! I have been making soap for 5 years now but not very often, I have made maybe 30-40 batches for friends and family, so still a beginner. I tried goats milk soap a few times by adding the slushy frozen milk to my lye solution and it turned out well, though a little more scorched...
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    Need some help troubleshooting soap batch gone wrong

    Hi everyone! I have been making soap for about two years, just for friends and family so only every other month or so. I have made a two batches of CP Goat's Milk soap and it is my favorite. So I just made my first really unusable batch - and thinking through what I did wrong. I wanted to...
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    Recyclying amber EO and FO bottles

    Has anyone come up with good alternate uses for empty amber FO and EO bottles? I have several that I can't bring myself to throw away, especially the ones with the dropper tops. The little sample ones are so cute I keep thinking there must be something I can do with them. If they were...
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    Soapcalc question

    Hi everyone, I HP'd Lindy's famous shampoo bar this weekend - this is batch # 13 of soap for me. http://www.soapmakingforum.com/f11/shampoo-bar-thanks-lindy-30946/ I started out measuring out my oils separately (in my first few batches), but I was concerned because you leave a little bit of...
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    Soap fails with pictures

    Hi all - I am a beginner - made two batches this weekend - batch #7 and #8 for me. Fail #1 - I wanted to try Lard soap. I decided to make a 1 lb batch, test a fragrance oil, and learn how to use the lye calculator. I found a recipe for an all lard soap, so I knew it could be done, but read...
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    Trying to fix a batch

    Hi everyone! I tried HP for the first time. I made a basic soap of 80% olive and 20% coconut. I made the same recipe as a CP and it turned out wonderful. The HP batch smells a little weird though. I scented both batches (the earlier CP and my recent HP) with lemongrass EO but did not put as...
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    Hello from Maryland!

    Hi, I'm Karen, and I'm a soapaholic. I live in Maryland and I would love to meet/talk with other soapers in Maryland or Northern VA! Does anyone know of a soap group/guild that gets together regularly in this area? Anyone from around here interested in a co-op for purchasing in bulk...
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    New soaper question on FOs

    Hi, I am a new soaper (3 batches but addicted already). My first batch I scented with lemongrass EO, and it was awesome. I have ordered a few fragrance oils and have had mixed luck - I made a batch of soap, divided it up into small batches to make "test" bars and added a little bit of a...
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