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Welcome, @sasse3824 ! I'm a fellow newb, having started back on April Fool's day. I got DOS on a ton of my early soaps; so far it hasn't hurt anything but the appearance of the soap. I learned through hard experience that letting your uncured soap touch anything but stainless steel,* plastic...

This week I ordered 8 pounds of castor oil. Many of my oils, like coconut, I can get at local stores, but castor oil is not among them, and I know if I run out I will not be able to make most of my favorite recipes, so I'm laying in enough to get me through at least the next six-twelve months...

Ahh, see... this is part of the lesson I learned: don't soap in haste. I was trying to get a batch in on short notice that day, and when I ran the lye calculator I spotted the default "Fragrance" line and forgot completely about the fragrance calculator. Unforgivable. Do not do as I do...

Today I mostly cleaned the house, but once that and the grocery shopping was done, I made a batch of soap based on one of @Zany_in_CO 's recipes, with green oxide and Green Tea & Cucumber scent from BB. This time I checked the fragrance calculator! Here's how the soap came out of the loaf...

I've passed along the links to the various calculators to my perfumer (my wife!) and asked her to help me be sure next time not to use too much scent.

huh. Live and learn, thanks for the pointer. I will check twice in the future! I'll let it age for a few months and then test it for skin sensitivity.

That's amazing.

I bought one of these after realizing that the other soap (stainless and another silicone) dishes I had were not allowing the soap to dry. It worked so well that I've purchased three others, and can highly recommend them. Currently listed on Amazon Prime for about $8 as 'Silicone Soap Dish with...

I actually waited 3 days before unmolding this Mint Infusion soap I made on Nov. 5. Having to be in the office two days in a row likely helped with that; too busy to get distracted by the soap. Even though I took these photos in indirect light, the camera wasn't able to decide what color to...

I feel like I can see a lot of colors, I often just can't tell them apart from each other. For instance, 7, 9, 10, and 12 look like various shades of the same color, but I don't know what color.

Disclaimer; I'm badly colorblind and likely loused up my grouping, particularly of 9 and 10, but this is probably 80% accurate. BB: Bramble Berry CC: Crafter's Choice Sub-batch Type Colorant Vendor 1 Clay Rose Unknown (I got this in a sampler pack) 2 Mica Buttercup BB 3 Mica...

Thanks for this!!

I'll give the bars another week before doing a suds test, but I am guessing they'll bleed a lot. I'm pretty badly color blind, so I'm not sure which soaps you're referring to. I will post a list of which mica gave which results after I make this spearmint soap (assuming I don't fall over from...

Last week I made a batch of soap. Today I put it on the drying rack (it's been a busy week, and the bars have just been sitting on my workbench waiting for attention). Yes, I said A BATCH. I continue to serve the community as an example of what not to do. In this case, I can tell you that...

When I started testing honey recipes I meant to get to 12%, and may do that later this year, but at 10% (my last batch) I'm not even seeing any extra suds from this, although the 10% batches haven't completely finished curing yet. I'll follow up once I can test them better.

I particularly loved the detail that the questioner wanted to freeze the m&p... you know, for the COLD process!

I sometimes get emails from Amazon asking if I can answer another customer's question on a product I have purchased. Back in the spring, when I first started learning about soap, I got some goat milk M&P base, and this morning I got this question from Amazon: "Do you have to melt it? Can you...

The oval soap is a white base, the only colorant is the ROE. The rectangle soap you can see on the other side is supposed to be blue, it has indigo colorant in it. I wrote more about that in the thread called "What soapy thing have you done today?"

Here is the triple-dosage ROE soap... Doesn't look too bad...

[Aragorn voice] There may come a day when I do my research first, THEN make soap! BUT TODAY IS NOT THAT DAY! (nor was Sunday...). Yup, my first attempt with indigo wasn't very successful! Who would have thunk it? I mean, I did zero reading on using indigo in soap! The good news: I got soap...