Woodi
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I'm wondering: what is your water like? super hard? purified? maybe if you try a different water, like distilled even.....
reallyrita said:Zenobiah....I have well water too and I can't use it for soapmaking. I have to use distilled water. Well water always contains minerals of some sort, dissolved particulant and what have you as the water seeps through ground and rock before reaching your well. This is probably playing havoc with your colors. I live in your neck of the woods, so I know about well water in NM.
I recently found out my water is mildly radioactive...yikes! very common in our state.
reallyrita said:I have RO water too but stuff still gets through. I would start with that, though. You might not need distilled if your water is pretty soft to begin with. I live near Los Alamos...so who knows? I was told that my water contains uranium ( gross alpha particles) that are naturally occuring in the rocks of my part of the state....the point being...everything that your water goes through before it gets to your well is in your water to some degree. City water is processed and filtered out the waazoo so this stuff gets stopped at the border. We are trying to deal with this issue now for our own health's sake but fortunately I have never used anything but distilled water for my soap and I wash all by soaping things a second time in RO water. Our well water is filtered twice before it even hits the RO unit. (I have two now)...but this is scary stuff nevertheless. So far, I have only tried micas, oxides and colored jojoba beads for color. Those jojoba beads must use dye...they make nice and easy peasy swirls...and very gentle to almost nothing exfoliating.
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