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Do they seem to work okay for mixing/SB-ing too DeeAnna? I was avoiding "square" bottoms.

I think it would be sort of cool to have categories for challenges. If one is to be organized here then maybe these can be considered: Best first time competitor (let's get new blood!) Crowd Favorite (simple pick your favorite) Technical Mastery (all those things you guys are talking about...

Vegan, organic, AND you are allergic to nuts ... yeah, good luck. :P

Nope, you didn't dream it. Was right here.

True story: I saw my wife trip on a stripe in the parking lot.

You pointing at someone?! It was for the sake of the viewers! :)

Ah! That makes sense, thanks. Wow, some of his designs are awesome: http://elomar-pasitoapasito.blogspot.com/ English translated (not very well): http://translate.google.com/translate?client=tmpg&hl=en&u=http%3A%2F%2Felomar-pasitoapasito.blogspot.com%2F&langpair=es|en

That reminds oe of something a friend said ... she often says (and I do not know firsthand, she's just a friend) that she got a rose tattooed on her breast that looked like this: But now it looks like this: Her words, not mine! Speaking of funny and tattoos, a buddy in the...

I have not ... I'm afraid I am rarely in a place where there is black light anymore. :-P :sad: Sounds very cool though! Sort of like "spy ink" for grownups.

I quit Facebook several years ago, after finally getting fed up with vague self-serving, narcissistic "pray for me" posts. I have a presence there, and people can contact me if they wish (who knows who will really need to find me?) but I don't allow posts, or tagging, or any of that. I treat...

Sometimes I need to remind myself of an Internet-apropos analogy: "Arguing with someone on the Internet is like wrestling in the mud with a pig. You never quite win and sooner or later you realize the pig likes it."

Very nice seven! I can see you used gold ... something, powder? How do you keep that in the stamp and not on the soap?

I remember in my first duty station we had a brand new "fehnoogeey" (I'll let you figure that one out.) He went downtown with his first paycheck and then some, and had a HUGE dragon started wrapping his torso. I mean there was 5-6 hours of line work. That next day we went on alert and...

That's awesome Julie ... it's sort of like an aplique where you use different techniques as if they were different media.

Only one way to tell ... New lye+old oil test batch. Or pitch it which I think I might choose after the frustration. :)

I saw this one on a girl once and had to laugh. This is not her so I imagine she wasn't the one that thought of it. I just have one, which I got many moons ago when the rest of the guys on my team got one. We thought the typical beret/dagger was a little on the nose, especially when we were...

I did as IrishLass had suggested in the past: I used just enough water to dissolve the milk from the regular batch water, and then used the balance for the lye. The milk was added after the lye was emulsified.

I think folks may be using "fuller water" in these in an effort to work the soap as long as possible. In my batches where I've tried this, ash was definitely more of an issue. Water takes it right off - assuming you don't have a fancy top of course.

I found the history of marbling as it relates to book-binding very interesting. I won't go find teh references because I'll lose ANOTHER afternoon, but it's all very interesting. I have some old books that are bound in this manner.

That's a good observation. I can tell you lots of things that DON'T work for lip balm. :)