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I haven’t had it long, a couple months, but don’t know how old it was before that. I ordered it off the world wide internets, but I don’t think it was from one of the known good suppliers. It was subjected to some fairly warm temps for a couple of weeks until I moved it. Probably a combination...

Has anyone experienced your CP soap seizing due to palm oil? I have used the Royalty soap recipe for several batches with no problems, but recently changed to a different brand of palm oil and my last 4-5 batches have all gone to trace immediately and I've ended up with soap on a stick. I can't...

No good deed goes unpunished. I’m sorry for your experience with this tacky organization. I had something a bit similar happen, although certainly not to your extent. I volunteered to donate commemorative soaps for a ceremony at my church, mainly to try a bespoke order and generate some...

I made my salt bars using the recipe from Becky Zepeda in the May/June issue of Willow and Sage. 84% coconut oil 8% almond oil 8% cocoa butter Water to lye ratio was 1.2 to 1 Sea salt was about 44% of the weight of the oils, and added at trace. I used round and oval cavity molds and the soap...

Thanks, I will check it out. The ph was somewhere between 8-9 color-wise, but most of my test strip experience has been with pool water, not soap.

I’d been doing M&P for years but was afraid to to cold process, but I made a New Year’s resolution this year to try it. I watched about a bazillion YouTube videos, mainly Lisa from I Dream in Soap, Holly, from Holly’s Soapmaking, and Elly from Elly’s Everyday Soapmaking. I also bought a couple...

Yay, me! I got soap on a stick today! My own fault, of course. Took a proven soap recipe and added a mixture of unproven sample fragrance oils. I quickly threw the SOAS into a pot and hot processed it to a decent texture and a ph of 8. The soap smells great and looks awful! We’ll see what...

Thank you, everyone, for your recommendations!

I made mocha soap again with the Fresh Brewed Coffee FO, but also added about a third of the total of Caramel Latte and Hazelnut FO by Makesy (had some to use up). It smells fantastic!

I didn’t. Like you, I don’t have a dedicated blender (yet). I may try sifting the TD first (if I can remember to do it) 🤦‍♀️.

Both the bottles of TD end up with clumps, but the water IS worse. I end up having to run a chopstick around the bottom to dislodge what’s settled; the bolts don’t break it up as much as I’d hoped (got the tip from Lisa of I Dream in Soap but it hasn’t worked as well for me as it apparently does...

I made CP soap and used Fresh Brewed Coffee FO by Nature’s Garden and added unsweetened cocoa powder as a colorant. The scent ended up with a weird undertone of what I can describe only as “chemical”. I used the recommended medium scent percentage. Has anyone else had this experience? What are...

I recently made up two squeeze bottles of TD, one with water and one with oil. I put three small hardware nuts in the bottle to break up the clumpy TD on the bottom. Last batch of soap I made, I added the TD to the lye water and had no issues with spotting at all. Will see what happens with the...

I wish cat pee was a mosquito repellent. I have a great source for it. 😆

I saw a YouTube video of a pink camo soap. It looked great! I’ve got several jars of red and purple botanical colorants marinating so I’ll definitely do one.

I made my first “spoon drop” or “spoon plop” soap today in camo. I was pleased with the colors (all botanical/“natural”), but may have *slightly* overdone the eucalyptus in my EO blend. The soap smells like Vicks VapoRub. I’m hoping it calms down during cure. 🤦‍♀️

Elly’s Everyday Soapmaking on YouTube has a good video which explains the differences in how lye is expressed in Soapcalc.

Here’s the recipe by Becky Zepeda from the magazine: Coconut oil 765 gr Almond oil 72 gr Cocoa butter 63 gr Distilled Water 153 gr Lye 127 gr 4 gr kaolin clay 40 gr EO 16 gr blue Cambrian clay (I used French green clay) 400 gr fine sea salt ~ 30 gr coarse pink Himalayan sea salt I added 2...

I made my first salt bars yesterday and unmolded today. Used the recipe from the current issue of Willow & Sage, with Ylang Ylang, Lime, and Lemon Zest essential oils, and French green clay as colorant. I’m quite pleased with how they turned out!

Hilarious! I will admit to not checking out prices on sandalwood EO. Yikes! I’ll either keep using the FO/EO blend (I really do like it, was just trying for an all EO blend), or adjust the patchouli. I personally like patchouli, but it is definitely not everyone’s fave. Have you seen...