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@Mobjack Bay, I can't believe that White Patchouli outcompeted Confederate Jasmine, Honeysuckle and Jasmine and Mediterranean Sea Salt on the SOS meter! Are there any FO's that you can think of off the top of your head that are both slow to trace and good stickers? An "off the top of my head...

So cute! I want all of the little round octopuses.

Those are all incredibly beautiful. In addition to being technically perfect, your color combinations are amazing. I am now embarrassed that I purported to give you advice on pull throughs, it should have been the other way around! Where did you get the discs? I wanted a rectangular set like...

Did my first try! I am always nervous on the first batch for SMF challenges, who knows why. It's not like @Vicki C is going to thump me if my soap is ugly. Right, VIcki? Um, Vicki? But once I make a batch and I know I have *something* I can enter everything is fine. ETA: It was weird to...

On my last batch of cream I realized that I had forgotten the preservative right after I finished. Then I set the jars (which I had made to send to a couple of friends, plus one for me) aside. THEN I FORGOT THAT I HAD FORGOTTEN THE PRESERVATIVE. I blithely sent the cream off to said friends...

That pullthrough is even better knowing that, since it is one of the center stem discs! They are so much harder to pour than the side stem ones. I have sets from both LYS and Wild Plantanica, and although they are both really good for different reasons, a strong plus for the WP ones is that...

I've had this happen as well. They can sometimes be a little more expensive than the big shops, it must be hard to compete on those grounds. But they (a) have things that no one else does, I think the owner really knows her stuff and (b) are one of the few places I trust implicitly if I have a...

It is beautiful where you live.

Really cute! The pink one is my favorite too. You amigurumi-ers are so talented.

Interesting, it appears from @Mobjack Bay's link that this is actually a thing. @Albercook, why are the people at the non-profit making soap that way? Is baking soda cheaper than lye there? This process seems to add extra steps which does not seem optimal unless there is a cost benefit.

I think a lot of people have trouble with CO in soap, it is probably the most problematic oil with respect to skin response (as opposed to, eg, OO, where people don't react to it as much but a lot of people just don't like the way it feels past a small percentage.) I love the CO bubble effect...

I suspect something has gotten lost in translation along the way. To make soap you need oil/s and lye (sometimes called "caustic soda"). Baking soda is not the same thing as lye, and as far as I know cannot be used to make soap. To make soap with peanut oil/other oils and lye you'd have to...

They are all beautiful! It seems like you haven't forgotten a thing. What discs are those? I can never figure out what my Wild Plantanica pullthroughs are going to look like just from looking at the disc so I'm trying to photograph the disc with the resulting soap so that I'll know for next...

It seems to me like there are basically two types of soapers, the swirlers and the purists. I'm a swirler, the best part of soaping to me is seeing what lies in the cut, and always finding something (hopefully good, sometimes bad) that I didn't expect. I use FOs because they are cheaper than...

@GuacamoleSalad, I had forgotten about this company because it's been a long time since I've ordered from them, but you might want to try searching at Save On Scents. They have a billion (almost!) different types of fragrances of all kinds, including odd ones. Also, they have a "sniffie...

It would make me uncomfortable to ask about it, to me it seems like part of what makes the soap unique and sellable. It seems different than (eg) asking another soapmaker here which FO they used if I got something in a swap. Even then, though, for example, @cmzaha has a dragon's blood blend...

I can't believe you're actually planning on doing all three of them! I usually plan on just doing one. And then I put it off until next, um, whenever.

Thanks to *you* for being an active member of the community! It's great when new people ask for help, for all of us. It's great to able to help and to learn new things (and remember old ones) when questions come up. I think this board is probably the single greatest repository of practical...

Given that the difference in colors is from the lighting they look pretty similar (and all really good). The two bottom ones just look a little more angled, is that what you mean? If I were a buyer and bought any of them in different orders (but as the same design) I would be fine with it.

If you've never made soap before, you should keep it as simple as possible, a plain Jane soap with no fragrance and color. Both of those (especially fragrance) are likely to make your soap more problematic by speeding trace (the speed at which the soap batter thickens) which you don't need for...