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Hi all! Haven't been here for a while - the activities of daily loving took over and curbed my enthusiasm to make soap. However, went on a binge the last 2 weeks to replenish stock on the basics and try some new things. Hopefully I will soon get around to posting some pics. Have just had an...

I had great success with Glenda's idea. Scraped the embed a bit at the back with a needle, wet it with a brush, push together and leave - still sticking, although I have not yet used the soap.

Hi Minnie, good to meet a fellow South African here!

Thx Cindy, Will definately give this a try

Thx, will try this

Hi guys and girls. I got gifted a bottle of pine fo. Would really like to use it, but dont think I will like soap smelling like pinesol. Any ideas? Not sure if I should mix it with somehing else?

Hi All, I have been kept from my soaping by just too much "other stuff" for too long and am getting ready for a "soap binge" this weekend - can't wait. Will be making 24 honey bars, 400 mini honey bars (for a guesthouse), and a repeat of the rose, peppermint and lavender bars. Hope I get to...

Today's soapy thing was 1 batch on plain Boerseep and rendering and purifying tallow. I really dislke the rendering and purifying - it takes ages! At least I still had enough tallow for 1 batch left - so that I can at least feel like am actually making soap and not just cooking fat all the time,

Wow, these are beautifull

Spend Saturday at a local Festival featuring one of South Africa's top Afrkaans singers. Imagine my surprise this morning when my friends send me his Facebook post where he mentions and shows my soap! I am so excited!

wow!!!

They turned out lovely!

Yes. All flavoured with essential or flavour oils as indicated by the name. Except the Boerseep. That is uncoloured and anscented.

Please keep us updated on this - and if it really works for the mozzies. I am one of their favourite treats - would be wonderful if bathing with neem could keep them off me - somehow they always seem to find the spot I missed with the repellant stick!

At last finished fixing my failed scrape attempt by adding cowboy boots to the ugly soap that was supposed to have a boot and hat scraped. 🤣

Thx!

Here are some pictures of my newest soaps. Had some fun experimenting with soap dough and a few techniques. Sorry about the labels, but too lazy to take a second set of pictures. Confetti with Diagonal pour, layered turmeric with swirled top, lavender with attempted spoon swirl, peppermint with...

Wow, what a week! Finished preparing for a huge show coming up in our area. Feels like I made hundreds of soaps. (Probably have - will count tomorrow) Finished up every bit of tallow that has been irritating everybody using the fridge and tried a lot of new techniques, additives, etc. It was...

Here is my attempt. Made 3 layers. 2 layers were just the colour the coffee gave to the soap, coloured the middle layer with some cocoa. Scented with coffee bean oil. Actually my 3rd try, for this one my mom brought me an old "grapefruit spoon".

Can't be that bad? ;)