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    What on earth happened!?!

    Not sure not seeing the full recipe but I think if you plop it all in the crock pot and rematch it, it should be fine. I love the color!
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    First soaps (4 days later)

    I have some of those molds also next time after you pour in the batter, wrap top with Saran Wrap then a towel.. I lie the towel down then put the molds in the center then wrap. Just don't move them for 24 hours so you don't end up with a big mess.
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    Soap Cupcakes...can you use the paper liners?

    I did this it was half turned out half I had to soak the paper off and ruined the look. Silicone liners did much better.
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    What to do?

    I tried a small piece it really didn't lather like my old recipe. My "bible" was lost and I can't remember my recipe I just know it took forever to calculate :( my client likes a hard bar that in a hurry he can just use as a soap to lather and on the weekends bring out the brush to use. So if I...
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    What to do?

    I made a shaving soap cp and gelled in fridge it's been about 2 weeks and it's still to soft to remove from the molds. Should I scrape it out and cook it to get a hard bar? If so how do I do that?
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    advice for beer soap

    I add my syrup at trace mt soap took on the beautiful Carmel color of the beer. It had a faint beer smell next time I'm gonna get stout FO.
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    I need help to save a botched batch !

    I've found that when you freeze the coconut milk you have to add the lye VERY slowly! If you just dump it in you get the clumps and bad end results. Hope this helps go slow stir the whole time and don't add to oils till there is no clumps sometimes it takes forever!
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    Fancy Stuff

    I like the first one best! Very pretty!!!
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    How does this recipe look?

    You need a scale! Run it through a lye cal. Also. Looks like way too much shortening and way too little oo and not sure about lye and milk since they are in cups. When you make soap you need to go by the actual weight of everything! Good luck!
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    Can this be saved?

    I was making body butter and while multi tasking I accidentally poured a block of melted paraffin wax into my melted butters. :Kitten Love: I went ahead and made the butter but its awful!!its a waxy mess! I remelted it hoping the paraffin would separate but no luck. What do I do? I have 3lbs of butters...
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    Using up oils....a few questions

    I have done similar I'd reduce the avocado to around 10%. sunflower is awesome you will find it a great addition to any recipe! I recently made a bar for someone allergic to almost everything and used sunflower, palm, canola and castor added bentione clay and kelp it is by far the most...
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    A little help please

    Hi all I have been accepted to my first farmers market. I'm so nervous,excited giddy and sick to my stomach! What if no one likes my products? What if I sell out? The later would be great but I have very little on the curing rack eek!! If you can would you check out and or like my Facebook page...
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    Best Resource for Jars

    I have found great jars at dollar tree they hold about 18oz and come in either metal clasp lid or screw top. You can order in bulk from their site and free shipping to the closest store.
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    my other "hobby"

    Love it!
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    Shaving soap is soft

    If its still sticky I put mine in the freezer for awhile, actually I forgot it was more like a day, anyway took it out ran hot water on the bottom for a sec and they popped out beautifully! No stickiness and a day later even better.
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    Hard as a rock

    Thanks I guess I committed the cardinal sin of not running it thru my self. It is testing clear what little will dissolve, I don't have any phenol but it is slightly zappy. Once it melts should I throw it back in the pot and re cook? What is dissolved is kinda oily and won't bubble up like other...
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    Hard as a rock

    I'm trying to do a shampoo I saw on chickens in the road. I read that you could use herbal tea for the liquid so I did at trace it became a thick hard rosin like blob couldn't stir it at all. I've cooked it for about 5 hours now its even harder to stir is it lost? What do I do??? Here's the...
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    Fresh additives soap - need help

    I'm still learning also I tried to use coconut cream in the lye don't do it! It became a hot sticky ball of sugar. Mine was a big batch I had to toss 12 oz of lye! Second try I plugged the cream into the lye calc as fraction coconut oil and used coconut milk as my liquid it gave me a nice bar. I...
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    Recipes

    So I haven't had any responses yet and was at my whits end because i need my crock pot back so here's what I did.... After another dilute test it wasn't as cloudy so I added sugar still a little cloudy, kept stirring as if it would magically clear up. Haha so my hubby says I wouldn't bathe in a...
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    Shaving soap is soft

    I did that recipe also a few days ago it is taking forever to unmold but what has is firming up nicely.
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