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Another alternative to wash your face is with a scrub. I generally don't wash my face (nor the rest of my body every shower, I generally just rinse myself and use soap or a scrub every so often), but I use a home made sugar scrub to get rid of the dead skin cells from time to time. My scrub...

Oh, I get it: it's not only that you can ignore the temperature, but they also do not need to be hot at all, not even the lye (as long as everything is liquid). Sounds stupid, but I hadn't realized what it actually meant! I thought that you just leave everything as it comes (no added heat), but...

Sorry, but what is half-n-half? :oops: :roll:

What? You let them sit all day?!

Yes, I guess I'll do that.

=> I don't have a car :) and it's chilly autumn now where I am => I'll be using liquid oils anyway. I don't plan on using beeswax and I don't have access to palm oil or cocoa or shea butter. So the hardest oil I'll have will be coconut which melts at a really low temperature. I could pre melt it...

I'm in South America, so no Walmart and no crisco ;) Of course, I plan on fitting any recipe to whatever size mold I come up with and it will definitely be smaller than those proportions. And the lye calculator. Knowing me, I'll probably even double check it with 2 or 3 different calculators!

I've been reading about making soap for a while already. It had always seemed quite complicated to juggle the temperatures and have the lye/water solutions and oils at the same temperature at the same time. I don't cook (we eat a raw diet in the house, so we don't even have a stove!) so it seems...

I'm trying to figure out what recipe to use for my first batch... Thing is I don't have easy access to a lot of the oils (like palm oil, shea butter, cocoa butter, crisco, lard) and I'm having trouble finding a recipe that calls only for oils that I have. I could go for a plain olive oil...

Yes of course. I absolutely understand. It would be my biggest fear to hurt my child in the process. I'll do it only when I have several other pairs of arms to help. Like my sister to take care of my daughter and my hubby to help me and maybe take over if I really have to go. And if I...

I am completely ignorant when it comes to ounces and inches, so I did the math to figure out what it would be in cm and grams. Take the volume in cubic cm (Length x Width x Height). Divide that by 2,54^3 (which is 2,54 x 2,54 x 2,54) = 16,39 (to get the cubic cm into cubic inches). And...

I find that all soaps in general dry out my hands. Even organic CP hand made soap I had bought when trying to figure out a solution for my dermatitis-ridden-hands. Then again: shea butter ruins my hands, so even what loads of people consider the most soothing thing really wrecks everything for me.

Wow, I've been absorbed in the forum all day! There is just so much ressource, so much to learn! Each time I open a new post I learn something new which arises new doubts/questions but before I have time to ask I find the answers in other posts. I'm new to soap making. I still haven't got to...

I've always had trouble choosing usernames in forums... But last month, while trying to find a name for my newborn daughter and seeking an opinion on an issue, I registered to a parents forum. On the registration page I thought "oh no, I'll take ages to find a free username I like!" but there...

Thank you all. youreapima2: I'm watching the video right now. I have already watched loads of videos for making the soap but didn't think of checking youtube for the boxes. JackiK: I think I get what you mean. You used a spacer at the top while building the mold so the sides stay parallel...

Oh thank you! I was wondering when someone would start giving anwsers :lol: :oops: I should have checked the introduction forum... something I tend to always skip :roll: Yes, I'm still new to the alphabet :)

Hi, I have never made soap yet, still new, but I'm getting all my supplies together to be able to try (cold process soap). I'd like to make the soap molds myself using pine boards I have. But I have a few questions before I start cutting the boards. What dimensions would you advise? I...