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I love green too! It's also my most useful color. I have three greens: an evergreen, fruit green and hunter green. I like to match scents with color, and green "matches" spearmint, peppermint, eucalyptus, rosemary, some citrus scents, fir needle, cedar, pear, apple, cucumber . . . the list is long.

I'm continuing my experiments with soy wax. I went down to 10% soy wax because I found 20% drying (has anyone else??) and scented with lemon eucalyptus (also called Eucalyptus Citriodora) and rosemary EOs. It's quite pungent at the moment, but I'm hoping it mellows. I soaped HOT and still have...

If you leave dishes for a day or so, the leftover batter on them becomes soap. Then you can wash it off pretty easily. I leave my soap utensils alone for about 3 days, and the batter (soap, by then) comes right off.

I made my first batch of soy wax soap five weeks ago. I just tried it in the shower and while I really like the hardness of the bar, it made my skin a bit dry. Here's the recipe: 28% Olive 27% Sunflower HO 20% Soy wax 12% Coconut 8% Grapeseed 5% Castor oil 4% superfat // 38% lye...

Hanger swirl soap using cocoa and rose clay to color the batter. And a gear tie as a hanger. I did up & down and back & forth motions with the gear tie. I wish the pink was a little more vivid, but I'm happy with how it came out.

Thank you!! This is SO helpful and interesting! I purchased Ho Wood a while ago and couldn't find the usage rate, so thanks for that as well. I'm looking forward to your updates.

https://www.kitchenstuffplus.com/umbra-sling-silicone-flexible-sink-caddy-red I use a soap caddy like this that I hang on my shower pole. I use a hand-held shower head, so the soap stays high and dry.

That is a beautiful bar cutter! Where did you purchase it from?

Hi @Noreen Moore , If you use the Soapmaking Friend calculator, it will calculate the amount of lye you need to add due to adding citric acid to your recipe. You don't have to do the math! Citric acid is listed under Custom Additives.

When I started making beer soap, I thought I needed a fragrance that "matched" the beer. Now I just use any fragrance because I'm doing it for the lather. I've made lavender apricot FO beer soap, lime beer soap, etc.

Beautiful! I'd never heard of Clyde from Vibrant before this and went to have a look. There're a million videos! Would you mind sharing which video it was?

Thanks, I think you're right about the laser thermometer. Especially if I am going to continue with soy wax. That said, the batter was fluid and warm when I poured into the mold. I scraped the bottom-of-the-jug batter into an individual mold not in the pictures. It seems to me that the top of a...

I do the same as @KiwiMoose. I bought a liter of pure coconut cream, poured it into ice cube trays and froze it so that it would keep for longer. Before use, I defrost in the microwave and add to my oils. I find that even a little bit adds to the feel of the lather.

Such beautiful soaps!! I love the soft pink swirl! And I don't always like stamped soap, but I really like yours. You positioned the stamps perfectly so that they add to the look instead of interfering with the design. Nice! Is it a custom-made stamp?

Here's my first soy wax soap! My plan was to keep it simple – no colorants, an FO I know and trust – because I wasn't sure how fast the batter would trace. In hindsight, I would have had time to bring batter to emulsion, divide, color and swirl. I think the yellowish color of the soap comes from...

Thank you SO much for taking the time out to do the calculations for me!! I'll definitely let you know if I try this.

Sunny Vanilla Breeze

I finally bought my soy wax today (I'm so excited!) and I have a question about adding it as a custom oil on Soapmaking Friend. The soy wax is not GW415 but is called "soybean oil hydrogenated Ph. Eur. 9.0". It's produced in Germany by a company called gustavheess. The fatty acid composition is...

Thank you all for such valuable information! The local website, which sells soap, cosmetic and candle supplies, just lists it as "soy wax". But now I'm armed to ask the right questions about the product! Thanks again!

Welcome to the forum! I hope I can make such beautiful soap in another 11 years! Wow!