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@cmzaha how fascinating! New Zealand recently said no to recreational cannabis but has allowed its medical use. Unfortunately it’s made the medicinal side super expensive. I have a prescription for CBD, but I sourced the isolate from the USA, way cheaper, but illegal to do so. The things we do...

@Janewoc17 yep, there’s a real thrill in learning new things and soap making is such a huge subject. Clay gives a lovely slip to soap and great as a natural colorant too. Have you tried rose hydrosol to replace your “water phase” when making your cream? To me rose hydrosol is the closest I’ve...

@KiwiMoose I know when we went through the Christchurch Earthquakes, there was certainly bottled water shortages then, but we bought a generator so we could pump our own water, we had animals to think about too. I think we are still in apocalypse mode, my pantry is certainly stocked more now...

@coconutoliveallergyp I absolutely love rose hydrosol, I use it as a cleanser/toner for my face. Yes, soap making is rather scary when you first start, but it can be addictive. I usually use my nose when it comes to rancidity, it might be better to buy small batches of grapeseed oil to make...

I use these guys, (av-at.com) very high quality which I use for their therapeutic action, but they might be too expensive for soap

I'm with you. I use rose hydrosol as cleanser/toner and jojoba oil with added essential oils. That's my whole beauty routine. I am thankful for family genetics that make me look young, though migraines are giving me wrinkles! @FragranceGuy I'm sure you could put a spin on pig lard, closest...

I love rose water but I personally wouldn't use it in soap, the rose aroma doesn't make it past saponification. I agree with @The_Phoenix about the "rose oil", sounds like your culprit.

I've never used distilled water. We have our own water well, I might get a bit more soda ash and I don't have issues with DOS so far, touch wood. Am I correct in thinking that water to the tap in the USA has to conform to a certain standard but bottled water doesn't? Is bottled/distilled...

Love the colours, no one would guess that wasn't what you were going for ;)

I am sorry to hear about the skin issues you have to deal with. Have you tried other products besides soap? I went through a phase of using powders to cleanse myself, but I do like my scrubby ingredients. I've used rice flour mixed with water or could could add a hydrosol like rose instead...

I think we are our own harshest critics. I think you nailed the colours. I'm sure everyone is going to have a great time and appreciate the effort you've gone to

@Janewoc17 I was thinking more of the total % of dried herb within the soap, which I imagine would be very low. Do you infuse the flowers in your oil or add them to the soap mix? I can feel the difference in the soap with butters and I imagine milks would be the same with their high fat...

I didn't realise that Soapcalc uses a lower % than other calculators. What % do you use?

@Zany_in_CO My problem with articles like that is that they are quoting therapeutic effects of the dried herb E.g. “Rose petals contain a lot of Vitamin C, which is also beneficial to the skin”. Vitamin C is destroyed by heat. This article is talking about adding the dried herb to the soap...

I’ve entered your oil proportions in soapcalc and it comes out to 21.48g essential oil. I have to admit that the lavender aroma fades very quickly in cold process soap, which is maybe why the bramble berry calculator has a higher percentage.

I've been playing around with proportions for my bars, which have 30% essential oils for musculo-skeletal conditions. They are poured into little stick containers so they can be rubbed onto the area without being absorbed into the hands. I'm happy on the feel, I would just like the recipe to be...

I can’t comment on the soy wax as I’ve never used it, but from other posts, some are harder than others. Your other recipe, I presume was 1/3 beeswax, 1/3 coconut, 1/3 cocoa butter? Coconut oil does make things feel greasy. I look at the melting points of your ingredients and work from there...

I wonder how much parsley you would have to ingest daily to have those effects 🤔 I did have a bit of a giggle about rubbing parsley seed powder into the scalp to promote hair growth, me thinks that it’s the scalp massage more than anything else.

It’s a bit of a buggar to work with as it’s quite waxy and you have to heat the bottle up in a warm water bath to pour, so I usually make up the German chamomile at a 25% dilution in jojoba. The chamomile aroma is so much nicer as a CO2 than the essential oil. The calendula is a very bright...

I use calendula for the colour, I know it’s therapeutic value but couldn’t guarantee that any of those active ingredients would survive saponification. As others have commented, better to use those ingredients in a balm, etc. I personally would use CO2 calendula or CO2 chamomile, a concentrated...