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Thank you for your compliments! Lime-e-ness has mellowed a lot but still very dominant. Some sugary sweet notes are coming out but I couldn't honestly say it's "coconut", just sweet. And the verbena? My nose doesn't really pick that up but others say it's there. And just a heads up: The...

It's the other recipe. I'm playing with the wieght of my left over lye tonight. Wish me luck!

Drum roll please...... TADA

This is a play off of Sonoma Valley perfume. My relative wore this perfume until it was discontinued She said it is very very similar to the real thing. I can't comment on this since I've never smelled the perfume. My impression and my nose smells black licorice and flowers. Kinda a weird combo...

Winter Serenade Cutting Garden, Uncut Colorado Breeze

Gorgeous! I love the colors and the design! I can't answer any of your questions but I can say that if your additives are bleeding out it just builds character and uniqueness to this batch. Like I said I love it.

That's what I was kinda thinking too. I'll have to play around with the numbers tomorrow :) BTW, thanks again for your help. Soaps in mold now, looks good. I'll let you know how everything comes out later. Maybe if I get an energy boost I'll figure out how to get some pictures of it up. lol

I am wondering if there is a straight forward way to create a recipe with only the quantity of lye on hand. For example, I have 7.3 ounces of lye left over. I need how much oils I have in hand?? Is there a formula? Or is it a plug in and play with numbers kinda game?

Thank you Thank you Thank you !! Your very kind. I'll try it out right now!!

Best of luck to you in the job hunt :) I'll send good mojo your way!! Would you plug in minus the lard? This batch is for my cousin and when I think about it..she may be a little freaked out if I tell her it's made with **Lard** I actually like it in my soaps but that's just me. You can see...

Thanks for getting back to me Ian. This is a hard group to break into, no? lol. I'm weighing out in ounces, sorry for the lack of info on that. I have been searching for a well balanced bar and this is the closest I've been able to come up with so far. I picked up some non hydrogenated...

Since no one jumped into help with me with the previous recipe PERHAPS I can get some feed back on this one. My question is what level superfat should I do with this: 15.3 Olive 15.3 Lard 12.8 Coconut 5.1 Palm 2.5 Castor ANY feedback would be highly appreciated! Thanks in advance

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Going through my soaping cabinet I've found some left over oils and wondering if anyone has a good recipe. Here is what I have: Pomace Olive Coconut Soy Castor a tiny bit of Hazelnut Lard I've ran these through soapcal but can't seem to come up with a great bar of soap. Any ideas...

I've used as little as .5 of an ounce per lb of oils with good success.

This sounds a lot like what I experienced with Pink Sugar from Peak. I'm just curious, did you use an ultramarine colorant? Also I would just like to ask you all, if your soap comes out unpleasantly scented, is there any way to reclaim it? At the moment I have 18 bars I can't stand. Ugh.

To me it seems I've had seizing with lower flash points than with higher ones. Just a personal observation.

Thanks for writing. It is bouncing back a little with more cure time although it still isn't what I'm sure it's suppose to be. Do you know a good supplier for palm? I can not for the life of me find it locally (Whole Foods, Vitamin Cottage ect) I like peaks fo's too. This one has me baffled..

Coconut Lime Verbena-Very limey. Hope it will mellow out with some cure time ??

Here's my soapy scents worth from Peak Pink Sugar-not a favorite of mine. Performed well in CP though. Did discolor but no acceleration. Juniper Breeze- A dead on copy of BBW. No A or D Coconut Lime Verbena- Very Lime-y. May want to add additional Coconut scent in next batch. No A or...