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Came out VERY hard.... literally was hard within a few hours!! I have heard the thing about tallow...didnt have any on hand but I am looking into getting some soon :) Ive also heard bout mixing NaOH and KOH but i have Nooooooooooo idea how or where to start with that, thats a totally new...

As a licensed massage therapist, I wholeheartedly agree with that quote! The body is amazing, never ceases to fascinate me, every client i work on teaches me something new! It is an ever-intriguing topic for me :)

this link is your friend: Zen Soaps single-oil swap results

I usually try to keep food-molds and soap-molds separate, FO does tend to stick behind depending on the type; If you insist on using the same cookware, I would advise you to make a weak bleach solution and soak the molds in it to lose anything that was left behind :)

Whatcha mean right myself a check for a billion dollars!??!?! lol thatd be siiiick :) ... yeah so I guess we are going to go out to dinner and then look for an xmas tree :) ... not poppin the ? til I clear some of my debt out of the way... plus the rings where i looked were overpriced...

yeah that may be it :) all depends on how much you start out with ;)

I mostly just use soapmaker3 so it does all that for me :) "easy button" ??? lol... but yes its about 2:1 H20:NaOH ratio :) now as far as weights, how long after pouring are you basing your % loss off of? Keep in mind this bar is a little under a year old :P

Going to let it gel completely (I think it went through gel phase faster than other soaps I have made) It seemed to trace nearly immediately, then stay at a pudding-like consistency for a bit, I had to re-heat it a bit to incorporate more of the sugar (again from my stupid laziness tonight... lol)

pics!!!! Its already pretty firm :) must be all that stearic acid (was able to bump it up a notch with a little mowrah butter... so I only wound up adding supplement stearic at 1% of the total recipe weight) sweeeet :) looking very creamy and I cant wait to see the lather in a month...

which one?? how much water I used??? I used it at a rate of 20% of the recipe (that is with a 15% water discount and 6% lye discount) so the lye solution strength was 32.4% overall. Overall batch weight: 660.59 g water used: 132.23 g lye used: 63.43g 9.6% of total...

yeah thats what i was thinking... I want to be able to save for it, do it right... yanno :)!! She isnt too picky, doesnt need something huge but I want it to be nice :) ...But like i said, that was more of an impulsive idea... Im more concerned with finding something to do with her...

Made a 4-bar test batch... ... eagerly awaiting its results!!! :) I did flub and added the sugar to the oils directly.... call it laziness, noticed it didnt dissolve all the way, so yeaaaah not to self not to do that again... Will post pics when its set :)

Alright, so I have an experiment I have been conducting since 3/23 (yes thats right almost one year!!!) The recipe is with a 6% superfat, and was a 1lb recipe... so ... for a bar that started out at 114.8grams, it now weighs 97.7 grams, meaning it has lost just about 15% worth of water weight...

lol *budget *budget *budget!!!! ;) Im not rolling in it yet... Law of attraction coooooome onnnnn :)

Allllrighty :) soooo tomorrow is my 6 year anniversary with my lady... Ive done so many things for our previous anniversaries, and her birthday was recently so long story short... I am now at a shortage of ideas of what to do ! Help me think of some fun and interesting ideas thatll show her...

oooo another one i just thought of.... there is a place, cant remember where it is if its on siesta or elsewhere but the company is called getaguru soap co or something like that (that really is how its spelled) Ive bought soaps from them on numerous occasions and they are exceeeellent :)

I agree..... Reality TV (started with The Real World on MTV) SUCKS!!!!!! lol Its the downfall of humanity... case in point: The Bad Girls Club I feel dumber just having to LISTEN in the other room while my girl watches this lol...

I lived in Anna Maria Island for a while, DEFINITELY check out anna maria island, and long boat key... beautiful beaches.... a few places to go: -Mary Selby Gardens (near sarasota) -Mote Marine aquarium -Check out the "Tide & Moon Jewelery Shoppe" on the North End of anna maria, ran by a...

welcome!!! I LOVE soapmaker3.... you wont be unhappy with that program!! It pays for itself in awesomeness :)

Really!?!?!?!?! welll thats a headache...... hmmmmm never worked with stearic in a soap, just in lotions .... now how to work it out... hmmmm