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This sooooo me too!!

Welcome!

I would definitely be soaping in my own house if I had the space but my basement is not conducive to anything but storage…sigh… maybe one day… For now, I walk the 50 steps next door to indulge my passion.

I’ve also used Kentish Rain in CP soap and while it moved fast, I didn’t experience any ricing and the scent is fabulous. Please note that like @dibbles, I used it several years ago so it may be a different formula now.

I use separate dishes for food and soapmaking, and at this point I wash all my soapy things by hand only because there isn’t a dishwasher in my soap ‘studio’ aka *the basement next door. I actually really love doing dishes by hand! In our other houses I always washed the soap dishes in the...

Absolutely jaw-dropping gorgeous!

I had several EOs from NDA in metal bottles and noticed that while the scent remained the same, the plastic liner thingies in the tops of the bottles and the plastic caps would get ‘gunky’ and start degrading, especially with citrus oils. So I now decant into glass bottles just to be on the safe...

I was in a co-op with another soap forum so ordered a lot of it and this bottle is all I have left. I’m positively hoarding it!

I’m a patchouli lover so I’m not much help, just came to say I have a bottle of NDA patchouli from 2009 that is HEAVENLY! Good luck in your search.

Welcome Crystal!

Welcome from another former Idahoan! I grew up in Northern Idaho and Eastern Washington.

I use a 6% SF and don’t account for the GM at all. I love the dmac handle! 😂

I use liquid GM in all of my soaps as at least 50% of my liquid and gel every single one of them. I also have a couple that are 100% GM. Only 2 recipes have ever cracked from over-heating and those both had honey in them as well. I soap cool (70s-low 90s) with a 30% lye solution and after...

Hi and welcome!

My soapy thing for today: unmolded my most recent soap, Lemon+Rose Geranium. Unfortunately I didn’t take a pic of it out of the mold, so here it is in its glorious just-poured state:

Beautiful soaps @KiwiMoose! Love them all, but the Cypress Forest and Dragonfruit and Black Tea…swoon! 😍

@QuasiQuadrant is it okay if I pm you for Martha’s email as well? I’m in the market for a cutter and some new molds.

Activated charcoal at 1tsp ppo, and TD at same usage rate in the white part. It has a very slight grey lather, almost unnoticeable. And I love the glycerin rivers that appeared!

I generally use a 50/50 lye mixture with distilled water, then add the cold (not frozen) GM to my oil/lye mixture at trace. When I do a batch with full GM, I add the lye to my frozen GM cubes and blend with a whisk in a plastic container with sides much higher than my mixture. I would be so...

Welcome! Goat milk soaper here, too 😄.