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Then they'd just torment me sitting there at my desk. :)

I've never tried adding colorants before the lye - maybe that has something to do with it? Anyone with the pretty purples here do it in the same order as nav?

Based on the cost of my kids' LEGO, this mold only cost about 5x what a professionally made one would cost? :) Fun DIY idea, and I really like how the soap colors turned out!

It would be me, if I didn't have to work a day job during the time deliveries arrive.

I should get some goat's milk, see what all the fuss is about.

My experience has been that the "half as much" rule mostly applies. I use .5oz PPO in my hot process bath soap, and get about the same final amount of scent as 1oz PPO in cold process. It does seem to matter which oils, though. I think some some oils are more vulnerable to the heat of HP and...

I think a smaller number of recipes is probably easier to keep track of for the soap and easier to understand for the consumer. Then again, maybe I'm just not thinking of enough unique "roles" for the soaps to play.

Sounds like you keep the lye solution at 50% strength and then make up the difference w/ the milk, rather that cut the liquid straight in half, then?

I have tried several, and have not yet found a black tea FO that really does it for me. Iced Tea Twist from Wholesale Supplies Plus is a fun scent, smells like instant lemon iced tea. But nothing that just smells like a cup of black tea. Bramble Berry's green tea is quite nice, and pretty much...

How does splitting your water in half and adding equivalent milk later work? Even at full water, that would be 56% lye solution. Do you have a lot of trouble with getting the lye to dissolve completely?

Sounds like an interesting project. I look forward to hearing how it goes.

I haven't used one myself, but I have seen plenty of YouTube videos of it. Basically, you pour all your soap into the different "compartments" then take the dividers out smoothly (as close to straight vertical as possible.) I don't think smearing would be a problem because you'd essentially...

Sounds like fun. I wanted to learn this technique anyway, so... :) 1. Snappyllama (woohoo I'm first) 2. Saponista (really looking forward to this!) 3. Commoncenz (If at first you don't succeed ... you're probably soaping) 4. TheDragonGirl (Trying should at least be entertaining) 5...

The last major soapy thing I did was to test a new bath bar recipe made with harder oils to see if it unmolded more easily. It worked out pretty well. Before that I was busy getting ready for fall with shaving soap, bath soap and aftershaves. Autumn Morning (coffee, dry leaves, lilies...

All my regular channels have been mentioned, so consider this a "second" for Soap101, SoapQueenTV, Vibrant and Ariane. Other than that I haven't found anyone whose channel I wanted to add specifically, just individual videos that I've found here and there when looking at specific things.

*nod* Unmolding is definitely the larger issue for me, and I have a new formula to try later this week. Maybe tonight!

So what's a soaper to do if they want gel, but also want their soap to unmold easily after a day or two? Or is that pipe dream?

My motivation seems to be similar to a lot of the answers here. I like hobbies and making things. My whole family is pretty crafty, actually. I never thought much about making soap (though I knew it could be done). I had bought in a bit too readily to the whole "soap dries your skin, use...

This is what I used to think about traditional shaving. :) I got a very nice acrylic one from an Etsy vendor. I'm pretty happy with my purchase.

There's nothing about stirring on the Dremel web page, so my guess is it's probably not a suggested use. Has anyone ever used a hand mixer w/ a "blending rod," (basically a disk style immersion blender w/out a cowl) for making soap? Example