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Agree! Life wouldnt be the same without them (despite the extra work! )

Picture of the cut before we let this soap rest long term. cleaning up the cutter already showed good lather so we have high hopes.

Well I decided to go for it and do my first rebatch / repair. i ended uptossing 16 percent of the batch due to things i had put on the top of it. end of the day i discounted so adjustments were 84 percent of start. mixed at 120f for each and it was like box mashed potatoes in no time. we...

That is some STELLAR looking soap! :)

Thank you @IrishLass !! I will read that now :)

I think I might grab these: https://deodorantcontainer.com/index.php/product/empty-deodorant-containers-translucent-plastic-twist-up-top-fill-2-2-oz-cylinders/

Thank you @dixiedragon - I will definitely try this out!

Cool and thank you very much for the balm recipe. Yes I am new here. I have been making a lot of this stuff for many years, but never saw this forum :) So a lot of my recipes were from online and adjusted based on gut instinct and not personal experience with the ingredients. Put into a...

Hello all, I have been keeping bees and raising queens for nearly a decade. Over these years I have collected premium wax and never found enough things to do with it. I see bee wax as an ingredient in some soap recipes and wanted to know if people would be willing to share their personal...

@earlene Very interesting and thank you for the detail in these options! It sounds like I either have oil bars or I rebatch correct? No amount of dry time will make the current soap,... well soap? I also assume it could become rancid since it is too superfatted. This recipe was one my...

I agree with your point on the soap, just really high SF soap (I hadn't tried to determine the SF % yet, only the percent to get the new rebatch to a 3 percent SF to give me a buffer). It was way more than 10 percent, which I think is the high end of SF. The original recipe in a lye calculator...

I am not certain if it was ricing, or seizing. It may have been seizing because ricing almost looks (in the picture on this forum) like the oil is separating. But in my mix it was well emulsified, but looked like curdled milk / mashed potatoes. In a pudding consistency. This was cold...

I should have been more clear. I was abbreviating for essential oil for each. However when I looked at each bottle they are branded "hello lovely" and the lavender is an essential oil, with the vanilla a fragrance...

It is soft enough that when I press my finger on it, it is like a very stiff, slighltly greasy playdough. the oils are very much visible on my fingers when I touch it as well. I put in 1 tsp per lb of soap. So ... not sure if this will turn out bad. Trying to decide if I should just scrap...

Did some calcs and going to try adding the following lye to water combo to hopefully save the batch. I left in a little superfat to hopefully remove the possibility of too much lye. I will post back once I get a chance and see what happens. This should be interesting because I made this soap...

Thank you! I have never rebatched so I will find a few videos on how too. In my case the soap is so soft and oily, I won't need to grate, rather... smush! :)

Hello all, I am new here but not new to soap making. I haven't had any issues making soap but took several years off and now have had all kinds of issues restarting. I would appreciate any help from your anecdotal experiences (if you have had this issue). I made the following batch...