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Out of curiosity I'm wondering what most people SF their Pine Tar recipe. I have been using a 3% SF in the recipe I like using and have been wondering if I should try 5% or more?

I'm looking for a little gadget to make my Mica lines it looks like a tiny strainer with a button on the handle that makes a metal line go back and forth to sprinkle the Mica. I can't find one anywhere in the store or online I see people using them to make Mica lines on YouTube. Does anyone...

Well I was practicing my swirling again and decided to time my batter it took 50 min to come to a light trace and another 32 min to come to a almost medium trace do you think I needed to blend more or is this a good timing for my swirling recipe. I blended for 10 sec and then another 10 sec And...

My soap calc saponicalc I use is telling me 3% of EO in my recipe should be 29.3g but EOcalc is telling me that 3% is only 14.7g feeling confused about this. My batch is 979.76g of oils before adding lye. I want to put 3% Star Anise and 3% Lavender 40/42.

I'm just wondering if SMF has a soap making calc I thought it had one but I can't seem to find it. Where should I look for it if it has one?

I'm just wondering if I mix 100g of water with 80g of lye will the solution then weigh 180g all together after the lye dissolves in the water. I guess I'm wondering if the weight of the lye changes after it dissolves? Thanks so much.😊

I'm just wondering about mixing my lye ahead of time again. I don't think I need to master batch because I only make about 2 batches a week as a hobby I don't sell soap but what I'm wondering is if I mix my lye solution a couple of days or even a few days ahead of time will some of the water...

So I just bought some test strips for my scents and I'm wondering how to use them and how do I mix scents with them do I just put a drop of fragrance on them or do I dip it and how do I mix 2 FO together to test it do I just place a drop on top of another drop to mix and smell or any advice...

No matter what I do I keep getting drag marks on my nice coffee soap I have even tried waiting 3 days to cut more of it thinking if it hardens it won't do that I have made coffee soap before and it didn't do that last time. Also the bottom edge keeps cracking off when I cut it. I've tried...

I was just wondering if I use TD that mixes with water do I need to mix it with my colors mixed with water or can the colors still be mixed with oil or can colors with water mix with colors mixed with oil.

Just wondering what is the best way to mix TD. Now that I started adding it to my colors it's leaving white smears of little drag marks in the form of little lines on my soap when I cut it. I have the kind you mix in oil plus I need to buy more is the water or oil mixing TD better just...

Do you think I can use yellow pigment with a pink mica to get a peach color I cant seem to find a place to buy a peach color in Canada, funny eh! Lol

So I was thinking about joining the soap making challenge but Im not sure how to work out the percentage for the colors. If I put one tsp of color pp would that be 100% and then say I add a 1/4 tsp of black charcoal to the main color would that be 25% or do I need to weigh out my colors on a...

Does anybody know where I could purchase a silicone loaf mold that's 3in×3in×10in. I have wooden loaf molds this size that I made but can not find any silicone loaf molds this size. I really like square soap. They have them in single bar soap molds but no loaf molds. If anybody knows where I...

I'm just wondering about lye water temperature? If we are supposed to keep are lye water with in 10 degrees of are hot oils why are some people on line using their lye water at room temperature? Is it because they are soaping at room temperature or at a cooler temperature? I thought it might...

Someone told me I could use something other then sugar in my soap batch to increase the lather and now I can't remember what it was and would like to order some she said thats what you use to skip the scorching. I don't know if it was a chemical or what but I'd like to try it. It must be...

Should I wait till my soap is done curing to use my handsteamer to remove soda ash or can I do it right away! One of my batches didn't get soda ash right away only after curing for a while. Is there any tips for using my handsteamer or tips for soda ash. My mom likes it (soda ash) lol I don't 😆.

Well I finally finished my Mashed Banana soap with almond milk and with some banana fragrance. Instead of trying to stop the browning from the fragrance with vanilla stabilizer this time I decided to work with the brown using a gold mica and made a white and gold layer we will see what happens...

So I ordered a bunch of molds to make stuff like coffee beans and chocolate chips to sprinkle on top of my soap. So my question is should I spray my loaf with alcohol before I stick the little embeds on top or should I spray after or should I skip the alcohol all together 😊 thanks so much.

Well my Christmas soaps are all most done I'm pretty happy with them except some air bubbles that I can't seem to get rid of lol. Here are some photos.