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It helps a LOT, thank you. And thank you for understanding about my rant. ;) I don't know if I want to wait that long for the olive oil. But hell it's just my own soap - it's not like i'm selling it or anything - so I should just do a couple of versions around the same time and see how they...

Only they say coconut oil is so stripping so here's my question: If I'm willing to wait for the olive oil to cure, could I do some compromise there? Will it really make such a hard bar (again, using more coconut oil as well if it will help)? Obviously I need to sit down with the numbers...

Oops! Sorry - I sent my little (not-so-little) rant before seeing you'd responded. If I'd read that first it might have distracted me enough not to go down that rabbit hole, hahaha. Great advice - thank you!!!

On another note, I may eventually want to do away with tallow too. I just have such a hard time because with palm (I know I said I wouldn't go into it here) you're hurting very intelligent animals as well as people and the planet, and with free-range tallow you're contributing to the harm of...

Thank you for thinking about this! You're very kind! What I really want to do is replace the palm and palm kernel oil with something else already in my recipe or else with tallow if it's better. I just don't want to use palm products anymore for reasons I won't go into here. So it may be...

Thank you Boyago! Nice to see another portlander here. Are you a new soaper or do you sell it, or..? I'd love to make soap with someone. Always trying to get friends on board just for fun and they're not interested (bastards). The two places I used to buy all my stuff from were Liberty...

Thanks Hazel! Here are the percentages I used or came close to using before slight tweaking: Coconut oil - 7.5% palm kernel oil - 7.5 % palm oil - 22% olive oil - 35% cocoa butter - 5% shea butter - 5% rice bran oil - 4% avocado oil - 9% castor oil - 5% powdered coconut milk - 1...

Thank you lsg! :) I appreciate the time you put into that! I need to start playing around with SoapCalc again and you're inspiring me to get on it!

Thanks - I know it will suffice but I still wonder which of these two options might work best for body butter. I keep fantasizing about a stand mixer though...

My favorites as well as OO, avocado and castor oil. I also like rice bran oil.

Thank you so much - that is very helpful. I was just doing searches and read about both Vit. E not being a good enough sub for preservatives and also how Germall Plus is preferred by most, it would seem. Yeah I don't think I'm ready to try a thick lotion...I should try a couple of more body...

Hi - I don't have a countertop standing mixer and don't have much space so at this point may not invest in one anytime soon (the bigger issue, though off-topic, is that the only kind that is powerful enough to handle a very thick, dense, grainy, seedy bread dough, is the Bosch one which is...

Hi there - I used to dabble in body butter several years ago and made a couple of batches of very nice fluffy whipped butters (and used Dry Flo). However, what I was really going for was more of a Cetaphil feel, you know? Maybe that heavy body cream and a homemade body butter can and will...

Looks so yummy! What fragrance did you use? If DOS becomes a problem, I also read recently that spirulina (sp?) makes a nice green color. I just googled and read that it starts out a vibrant Spring sort of green then turns a green-brown. Which might be a good thing, for avocado? Also I read...

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Yes luckily I do have the recipe that's the one just before that good one and it had all the same ingredients: coconut oil cocoa butter shae butter palm oil pko olive oil avocado oil rice bran oil castor oil I know it's a lot of ingredients but I don't care - I LOVED how it turned...

(copying from my post in the christmas fragrances thread - so sorry for redundancy but I thought maybe this would be seen if on its own?) Does anyone know where to get the closest match FO to the very expensive Thymes brand "Frasier Fir" scented candles? I saw that there are at least a couple...

Thymes candles - Frasier Fir? Does anyone know where to get the closest match FO to the very expensive Thymes brand "Frasier Fir" scented candles? I saw that there are at least a couple of companies who have FOs called Frasier Fir so I assume they're imitating the Thymes candles which are...

This is an old thread which I thought I'd attempt to revive so that I can get some new ideas for FOs (haven't soaped in about 9 years I think!). Actually it would be nice if you were to specify if any FO's are also good in candles, if you happen to have used them in candles. Any other...

I like paraffin best but not so much because I prefer the wax so much as I think making pillar candles is a lot more fun (and allows a lot more creativity) than container wax. And waxes that work well in containers don't usually work well in molds. Yes you can blend some but generally...