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Found this on my Instagram feed, and I am head over heels for this soap... #goals...

Use a calculator, and percentages. If your recipe is shown in ounces, check the total weight of oils, and then check individual weights to determine the percentage of each oil. Put those numbers into a soap calculator, and you will be fine. I've calculated recipes using SAP values, but even...

Joy

Jumper

I've been madly busy with work, and prepping for a trade show, but I finally got to make some soap with stearic acid yesterday, to test some results in another thread. Like @amd , I used only 1%... I'm trying to make a moisturizing bar with good lather, haha!! Coconut oil, shea and cocoa...

@amd I'm hoping to have time for some soaping tomorrow, and will try the SA... fingers crossed!

Looks amazing, and I'm all over those fragrance choices!!!

Pretty colours, @Misschief ! And hats off to you, for trying the scooby soap!

Here is the soap that I made yesterday - with more preparation, and at a much lower temp... it's still very soft, so I'll let it sit for another day or two before unmolding - made using pink rose clay and zinc oxide, and fragranced with bergamot, rosewood, and lavender essential oils... so...

@Misschief , I'm so new to making body care, that I haven't yet decided on a tried and true recipe, lol!! Once I do, I won't mess with it!

Crystal

Hello, and welcome Meena!! I understand your concern over using lye, for sure - I once had a spill ruin part of my flooring... my suggestion, if you want to try soaping with lye in your apartment, would be to lay down some plastic (like a garbage bag) - so if anything spills, you can just...

Thanks for this thread, @amd - just last night, I was reading about using SA in CP soap. I'm also soaping in our basement, and am experimenting with natural colourants (which I have heard hold better colour when gelled). When I've used a heating pad, I've gotten cracked soap. Now I'm wanting...

Thank you! But you know, they just aren't what I had in mind.. they are more rustic, and growing on me.. I used indigo in part of the water portion, and too late, I realized that I may (and did) have some unexpected challenges... Failure is part of learning, I guess!

Thank you - I don't mind the abstract pattern, but the sweaty centers, ugh!!! And not the colours, or pattern I've been dreaming of... not even sure that I love the fragrance (Mayan Gold from BB).. time will tell!

I totally would!

Rodeo

Well, I attempted a swirl, and ended up with sweaty, fugly bars of soap.. I was in a mood, and being impatient, wanting to swirl before year end.. I used indigo in boiling water (probably too much water).. and then my other part of the soap batch pretty much seized, so I worked as fast as I...

@Chris_S and @jcandleattic - I love both of those soaps! I've been messing around, trying to make a massage lotion, for myself and other RMT (registered massage therapist) friends.. I think I've got a formula that I like - now just to have some friends beta test it for me, and let it sit... I...

Wishing everyone the very best that 2019 can bring - may you all be lathered in joy, laughter, and love!!