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I was just looking at the Ola Prima brand. Their so-called Lavender Essential oil has Lavender Fragrance Oil and Triethyl Citrate listed under the ingredients. You have to watch everything on Amazon these days. From Wikpedia: Triethyl citrate is an ester of citric acid. It is a colorless...

Why isn't God listening... Cheryl's numbers have all crashed again and docs are not letting her go home. 😭 😭 😭

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At least here in So Cal my 50 lb of lard has gone up at least 175% depending on where you purchase them. I quit soaping. I used to pay $35.00 for 50 lb blocks, the last time I looked it was $96 for the 50 lb block where I used to purchase it. It would be getting extremely hard to make any money...

Lone Star is a very reputable company and has been around as long as I have been shaping. I have purchased from them in the past. My customers liked Bluebonnet from soapsupplies.net and I like their flat rate shipping.

Nope I do not worry about all the stages, it will turn into soap regardless. I usually cure longer than cp because hp usually requires more water/liquid than cp.

Artemis is correct you want to make sure you are using High Oleic Sunflower if you want to use that high a percentage, I never recommend higher than 20% regular sunflower oil. As far as your recipe I can almost promise it is not a nice recipe that it is also subjective, you may like it. On the...

@ A-Polly According to her Doctor, she is at the end of the line for surgeries, no more at this time and in the near future. They just found a biological program for her under 10k for 2 yrs which she starts on ASAP. They are hoping this biological will help get her immune system working along...

This is a sad way to look at it, soap is soap and does what it wants to. We all share our experiences and techniques which greatly vary with experience and recipe. For me the only time I would hot process would either be to use a very cranky fragrance or rebatching. When I do hot process from...

I love Kokum butter and Illipe butter. FYI, 100% avocado butter is available. You just have to find a supplier. I still have a container of Avocado butter in my freezer, it is wonderful. Sorry I do not remember who I purchased my Avo butter from and I am to tired tonight to dig in the...

It us interesting when you talk about false trace and it causing a problem. The only time false trace really becomes an issue is if you pour to soon, before it does start to heat and thin your batter out. My two main recipes always false trace because they are either high palm or tallow and I...

Thank you everyone. Prayers are very appreciated.

Thank you Alison, I am really getting frightened we are not going to stop this.

It's back... 😭 Cheryl's dentist thought he found the actual source of her infection. He found infection under extensive hardware in her bottom jaw 7 or 8 implants. She went into surgery to remove all the hardware clean the infection, and have plasma bone grafting and a prothesis added to try to...

I always like using Tumeric EO instead of powdered tumeric

The same one I use although I did a couple of little tweaks. It really makes a very nice foaming butter.

Thank you DeeAnna, Lye Dipped directions from The Fresh Loaf are the instructions I am going by but using the bagel recipe from The Perfect Loaf.

I would love to have a freeze-dryer, but that option went out the door with my daughter's illness.

I found no difference between any of the forms of goat's milk and frankly preferred working with powdered. Also, the fat content made no difference because I would simply adjust my superfat to the fat in the milk. I will mention I am the odd one who never noticed any difference with GM soap but...

I sold for over 10 yrs and my little business was always in the red and was never questioned. On the other hand, while the IRS does not issue business Licenses they can take away your business license apparently. Sadly this happened to a relative of mine after a long nasty divorce. He was having...