Hi Soaper Friends!
I'm trying to get waaaaaay more streamlined with ordering supplies = trimming down the number of supplies I order and buying in bulk to save $. I'd love to just use 1 butter in my base soap recipe (currently use a combo of cocoa + shea). I use refined olive oil + coconut 76...
Hi! Newbie. About a month in, here. Last weekend we made a 6 hour round trip to purchase a soapers supplies...it was a soapers heaven! Molds, butters, oils, natural colorant, pounds of lye, essential oils,FOs, micas! I mean stuff is in bulk!!! oh so many goodies that I had only dreamed of...
Good morning from Long Island, NY! Hey everybody, I have taken the advice given and limited myself to simple soap recipes and one soaping process. I started with hot process at the end of May (I waited for the Mercury retrograde to be over) and have 4 batches under my belt. I’ve been handing...
Hi all you smart people!
I've had a few things on my mind after dealing with some major and minor soap making annoyances lately! I'm pretty sure I just got too excited about things and tried to catapault into realms I had no business even creeping into just yet but I'm trying to tell myself...
Updated info - Maximum of Cocoabutter in CP?
I am sorry to bother you fine folk`s, but I found it safer to start a new thread instead of resurrecting old threads and quoting old posts.
I have searched the forum, and read many posts that said some of you like to use a lot of cocoabutter in your...
Good morning,
I have been making creamers and bath products with Shea and cocoa butter in for a while but I wandered if there was a way to prevent the butter from sitting in the bath, maybe disperse it to prevent your bath from being slippery afterwards? I am certainly very confused ...
i want to make raw mango butter from the mango seeds of my 2 large mango trees for soap making. I throw away hundreds of seeds every year, so when i found out about mango butter, i was excited to try making my own home made mango butter for soaps, lotions, etc. I want to make the butter with my...
Hello All,
My question pertains to what exotic oils/butters or additives may be added to CP soap to give the 'average user' (as I know it's very hard to generalise otherwise) an actual tangible and real improvement in the quality of the end soap produced.
***Full disclosure, I'm very new to...
Hello all :)
I am a big soap newbie, but am having fun messing around with some simple recipes and other bath/body recipes for the moment.
If I eventually start selling my products (which is the dream in a few years once I have more experience!) I don't want to be selling another soaper's...
I am playing with a new recipe and thought I might add a butter this time for extra moisturising (or rather, for less drying...). I'm not sure if I should go with cocoa or shea. I see shea pop up in a lot of ingredient lists. Is there a reason that it seems to be preferred over cocoa?
Do...