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Yay, me! I got soap on a stick today! My own fault, of course. Took a proven soap recipe and added a mixture of unproven sample fragrance oils. I quickly threw the SOAS into a pot and hot processed it to a decent texture and a ph of 8. The soap smells great and looks awful! We’ll see what...

Thank you, everyone, for your recommendations!

I made mocha soap again with the Fresh Brewed Coffee FO, but also added about a third of the total of Caramel Latte and Hazelnut FO by Makesy (had some to use up). It smells fantastic!

I didn’t. Like you, I don’t have a dedicated blender (yet). I may try sifting the TD first (if I can remember to do it) 🤦‍♀️.

Both the bottles of TD end up with clumps, but the water IS worse. I end up having to run a chopstick around the bottom to dislodge what’s settled; the bolts don’t break it up as much as I’d hoped (got the tip from Lisa of I Dream in Soap but it hasn’t worked as well for me as it apparently does...

I made CP soap and used Fresh Brewed Coffee FO by Nature’s Garden and added unsweetened cocoa powder as a colorant. The scent ended up with a weird undertone of what I can describe only as “chemical”. I used the recommended medium scent percentage. Has anyone else had this experience? What are...

I recently made up two squeeze bottles of TD, one with water and one with oil. I put three small hardware nuts in the bottle to break up the clumpy TD on the bottom. Last batch of soap I made, I added the TD to the lye water and had no issues with spotting at all. Will see what happens with the...

I wish cat pee was a mosquito repellent. I have a great source for it. 😆

I saw a YouTube video of a pink camo soap. It looked great! I’ve got several jars of red and purple botanical colorants marinating so I’ll definitely do one.

I made my first “spoon drop” or “spoon plop” soap today in camo. I was pleased with the colors (all botanical/“natural”), but may have *slightly* overdone the eucalyptus in my EO blend. The soap smells like Vicks VapoRub. I’m hoping it calms down during cure. 🤦‍♀️

Elly’s Everyday Soapmaking on YouTube has a good video which explains the differences in how lye is expressed in Soapcalc.

Here’s the recipe by Becky Zepeda from the magazine: Coconut oil 765 gr Almond oil 72 gr Cocoa butter 63 gr Distilled Water 153 gr Lye 127 gr 4 gr kaolin clay 40 gr EO 16 gr blue Cambrian clay (I used French green clay) 400 gr fine sea salt ~ 30 gr coarse pink Himalayan sea salt I added 2...

I made my first salt bars yesterday and unmolded today. Used the recipe from the current issue of Willow & Sage, with Ylang Ylang, Lime, and Lemon Zest essential oils, and French green clay as colorant. I’m quite pleased with how they turned out!

Hilarious! I will admit to not checking out prices on sandalwood EO. Yikes! I’ll either keep using the FO/EO blend (I really do like it, was just trying for an all EO blend), or adjust the patchouli. I personally like patchouli, but it is definitely not everyone’s fave. Have you seen...

Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy inspired?

I think it’s like the cilantro gene. 😆

I made some CP soap - it didn’t turn out as well as I would have liked (glycerin rivers) but OMG the scent! I blended 50% tangerine EO, 25% litsea cubeba EO, and 25% sandalwood patchouli (a mix of fragrance and EO - I will mix my own EO blend in the future but didn’t have sandalwood EO at the...

I’m in Middle Georgia and my coconut oil has been melted and clear in my garage for over two weeks. It’s only June!

I, too, am on an FO buying hiatus, until I seriously cull my current stash. The struggle is real! I’ve been crocheting soap scrap bags out of 100% cotton yarn to give to friends when I ask them to beta test my soap.

I’ve used Lingonberry Spice along with another berry FO to make wax melt Swedish Fish. Agree that a little goes a long way!