selah925 said:
What is the difference? Can I use either? Where can you get colloidal oatmeal from?
Also, can you use regular honey or does it have to be dry powdered honey?
Thanks!!!!!
This is just me and my sometimes nit-pickiness about the feel of certain textures, but I decided to give baby oatmeal a try after having already tried oat flour from the store (too scratchy for me in my soap), and also having tried grinding my own oats up as fine as I could get them in my electric coffee grinder (also too scratchy for me in my soap, it turns out).
Then I read about people using either baby oatmeal located down the baby aisle in the grocery store, or else colloidal oatmeal that they'd ordered online- both with very good 'no scratchy' results being reported. I personally decided to go with the baby oatmeal because it's more readily available to me than the colloidal. You can try using whichever kind you want- none of them will hurt your soap. Whichever one you choose to use in your soap, though, will all come down to your own personal tolerance level for the feel of certain textures.
As for honey, I just used regular or liquid-type of honey in a jar that I always buy from my local healthfood store for use in sweetening my tea. I've never tried the powdered stuff (yet).
IrishLass