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It felt like an accomplishment alone the fact that I intercepted my partner preparing rice for lunch and I remembered to ask: "Can you keep the water from the 2nd wash of the rice?" "Sure, what for?" "There's this soap I want to try..." 48 hours later my first take on the double rice soap...

My first soap is actually the one in my avatar picture! I joined a workshop in 2019 (which now feels like ages ago, wow) and the instructor had us make a vegetable oil soap. We could choose how to scent it from a selection of essential oils and that alone took me 10 mins, I got carried away...

Loving your angle soap. Your picture of the soap mold anglers prompted my soap thing of the day - after reading your post I spent twenty minutes brainstorming with my partner how we could create a DIY soap mold anglers... possibly from two pieces of wood attached together with some kind of...

I have only done CP so far and happy with the results - but I didn't know that HP would get you a different result. Off to research differences now 🧐

Yesterday on New Year's Eve I had some soba cooking water left from lunch and, remembering the thread by @Dawni on her rice soap, I was really curious to see if the soba water would yield the same benefits. So I squeezed in a very quick soap making session with a recipe adapted from that thread...

I found this forum as when I did a CP workshop the soapmaker mentioned that there are useful forum on the internet... and Google led me here :D

This is an interesting thread for me as I also live in UK. I've been using filtered water purely for convenience, and that seems to work for me, but all my soaps get used withing 3-4 months usually as I soap in small batches. I just had one case of DOS with one of my oldest soap, and I'm now...

Such beautiful soaps and ideas in this thread! Today I made my second attempt my Christmas-themed soap (that seized terribly at my first attempt a few weeks ago). I was a bit nervous so it was a huge satisfaction to be able to pour it this time. I can't wait to unmold and to see if the...

Thank you Todd, that's really interesting! I wish I had left my tree part alone to try this. I will remember this for next time. Thank you DawninWA, that's a relief. So is there no need to rebatch? Yes, I think I should have done this. I've read this somewhere but I kind of hoped for the best...

So I had my first soap failure yesterday (which I knew it was a matter of time and part of the learning curve but still bothers me lol, especially because in hindsight I think I could have taken a different approach and prevent it). My idea was to make a two colour CP soap, pouring a...

Thank you both for sharing details. I got curious to see if there is a way to find out if your glass cointainer is borosilicate glass or not, but it seems it's not really something that can be checked and still have a Pyrex container to use.

Hi everyone :) I've been a reader on this forum for a few months now. My name's Alice, I'm Italian but currently living in the UK. I've started making CP soap last year after attending a soap-making workshop that literally blew my mind. Who knew it would be my next hobby! I've been soaping...