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Well I finally did it! I made a 1lb batch of paul's walmart recipe and used the socal type fo from Berts Heaven Scent. No acceleration or discoloration and it smells divine. I soaped at room temp and everything went beautifully. I think I will make some more tonight lol. I've been bitten by the...

They are great prices, she also gave me a refund because my shipping wasn't as much as I paid, she's very honest!

That's good news :) I was worried about a partial gel since I will be using the RTCP method. I got my fragrances in the other day and am looking forward to getting the rest of my supplies and getting started!

They are here YAY!! My favorites are the so cal type, cucumber melon and macintosh apple! I will post more when I soap them!!!

Does anyone know where to get a FO dupe of the cologne "sweet craving"?

When using milk powder instead of liquid milk do you still have to worry about overheating if you stick it in a 170 degree oven and turn it off. If so is there another way to force gel from RTCP milk soap, or do you just have to deal with no gel? Thanks :)

Oh I thought of one more question :) When using powdered milk instead of liquid would you still have to worry about overheating problems if you try to force gel?

I'm not sure, a few more weeks! I'm waiting on income tax to buy the rest of my supplies. I will be soaping at my grandmas house 2 hrs away so that I don't have to have the lye around my kids plus she has a large storage room where I can cure my soaps at. My house is stuffed to the brim as we...

I was under the impression that when using grams you can just round down the decimals?? If not how do I get rid of them? Thanks for the tip about peak's sale I will def. be getting some in Feb!!

Sounds good, I have an order from bertsheavenscents.com on the way, as money allows I'm going to try wsp, peak, and brambleberry next. I have a whole list of suppliers made up but those are the ones I want to try most as they come so highly reccomended. I also have one more question. If I do...

Thanks, I am going to try that and tweak it as I see fit later. I will be making small 1lb batches as testers until I get a formula I'm happy with as well as figuring out which FOs I like and how they behave since I can use sample sizes for a small batch. I am going to be testing and...

Ok here's the recipe I'm going to try, I ran it through soapcalc to be sure: Water 4.623oz 131.055 grams Lye - NaOH 2.277oz 64.549 grams Coconut Oil, 76 deg 4.8oz 136.078 grams Crisco 4.0oz 113.398 grams Olive Oil 3.7oz 104.326 grams Canola Oil, high oleic 1.6oz...

As for FO's I have read about ricing, discoloring, seizing and accelerating, but what I cant seem to find out is how to avoid or if not avoid then maybe prepare for any of those? What do you do when any of the above happens? I like to be prepared just in case (cuz if I'm not I will panic)

Well cardboard absorbs oils so wouldn't it dry it out? Idk lol just thought I'd ask before making a suggestion lol.

I am new but for my jewelry I make my own boxes from cardstock. I wonder if you made the window boxes out of cardstock would it affect the soap??? Anyone know?

I feel the same, and I haven't even started yet! Tax time is going to supply me some things so when we were in walmart the other day my hubs had to drag me out of the store before i started buying oils with food money lol...It's quite hard to be patient. I did order some lye and fos though so...

Thanks! I can't wait for them to get here (even though I haven't bought all of my supplies yet) I will give my impressions oob then in a few weeks when I finally get started I will post results as I use them!! I will try to take some pictures too since I want to document my first soap making...

Cool, thanks for the link to that website! I will check that out as soon as my husband lets me get on his computer (mine doesn't have sound)!

Ok I just made an order with heaven scents (their prices are too good to pass up) so I wanted to know if any of you have used any of these and if so could you give me a review? Cucumber Melon Macintosh Apple Pearberry Sandalwood Satin Sheets Wash Day Sweet Pea SoCal Type Summer Breeze...

Ok, well I will just have to wait then I'm about to switch companies sometime next month so I will wait and then join when I get the new company. This one sucks it messes up too much! And too expensive!!!