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Hiya What did you color the soap logos with? I think the soaps are great and the golden logos make them look amazing. Jealous to the core.. :oops: --- ouch just saw the post above.. micas? very nice.. and natural too.. love it..

Yeah definitely good idea duh stupid water and witch hazel I just made some using only fragrance oils Used a bit of food coloring too though (and it had water in it, grrr..) so it started fizzing away a bit but I mixed it up quickly and pretended like it never happened. I have to get...

Thanks That's true, that's what the recipes I've seen say too. I was just using water on the first experimental batches to get the proportions right (because the same recipes didn't seem to give me a moist enough mixture). Does anybody know if Witch Hazel does anything in particular in the...

Cool.. thanks.. As I suspected then I guess I'm going to have to make a new batch and use one squirt of water less and if that don't work make one with yet one squirt less and so on until I find the right mixture Risky business these bath bombs

Hiya Made my second batch of bath bombs today I made them using ball shaped molds and they looked nice problem is that now after a few hours they've sunk down into themselves so they look like donuts (the no hole version) Why? Could somebody please tell me what am I doing wrong...

I made my first bath bombs today and they float I thought they were supposed to sink lol I don't know, I suspect something went wrong First of all they are supposed to dry up in a few hours so I went to work and left them to themselves When I came home they had swollen up to almost twice...

Hiya I was using the calculator at lyedepot but I wouldn't blame the calculator for the mishap, that was down to me not mixing well enough for the soap to trace and then to set properly. I've used the same calculator for all my other soaps since then and they're all fine.. This forum rocks...

Hiya Made another one.. and used some color this time and attempted to get a bit of a swirl going on. Used a fragrance oil for the first time (always used EO's before). Its called English Rose and smells more or less like a whole flower shop in one bottle. The mixture was nice and creamy and...

Yucky yucky x 1 million :shock: The second batch tasted a bit salty like and then there is a small tingle on the tongue but not as much as a battery. The third batch wasn't as bad, just tasted like soap. lol.. thank you for this fantastic new taste in my mouth.. I'm going to the...

Thank you all for your kind words I hope to make better soaps than these in the future I've seen real masterpieces here on the forum that make me green with envy :wink: I test the soaps using regular PH test strips 1-14. What is a zap test? I don't know.. :oops: So time itself...

Hiya My first attempt at making soap went baboon but I kept at it and hey it works fine. My second attempt was an olive-castor-jojoba-coconut-shea-almond-apricot kernel-avocado oil soap with a bit of dried rosemary in for texture and scrubbiness. I added too little EO's though and it...

Thank you very much.. and very scientific yes.. lol.. First I was mixing it by hand because I was scared about splashing lye but then I used an electric mixer. I was worried about using my blender because it's mainly plastic and thought the lye would melt it or something. I saw later in one of...

Hiya everyone I'm Alan from London, UK. I've just made my first soap and it really didn't work out. I found a saponification calculator on the web and made up a recipe using 440g olive oil, 15g palm kernel oil, 15g cocoa butter, 20g avocado oil, 20g macadamia oil. The calculator told me...