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The Rendering! I’m going to wait to do anymore because this is quite a bit of tallow and I’m going to be revisit g some recipes to use it up. Halfway after the first pour second half the end nice and creamy! I don’t know how much I started with and my scale doesn’t weigh more than 7lbs. I...

Ohhhhhh it was yesterday and I lost about a gallon of castor oil. thought I’d make soap while tallow is rendering. Still rendering btw…went to measure out castor. I have a cubit container that started with 37 lbs that I got from SC. Should last me a while! I thought. I left the spigot on. For...

What a great thread, everyone!! @KiwiMoose i saw another maker who made small travel sizes in 1” cavaities and she sold lots of them like this Wilton mold. It’s perfect for sample sizes! I have lots of hair, thick, ethnic, waist length. I wash my hair once a week. I don’t use a lot of shampoo...

I started a batch. Hardly made a dent in the bag. I think there’s still like 30 pounds in there 😳 and I only have 4 - 8 lb buckets to store it. During my purging I didn’t think to keep all the pails I’ve been collecting the last dozen years. Oh well, I suppose there’s gonna be a ton of tallow...

I have finally dug out my toaster pan amidst the rubble of holiday storage. I have yet to render. 🙁 things have been a bit nuts with holidaze, Covid family members, death cleaning and closing out the books for the year. I just purged my soap room and am prepared to start the new year’s work...

Great thread and ideas, everyone! 1 - Get a multi-bar cutter. I’ve snapped my single bar cutter several times this year. My husband made it for me when we started soaping so it’s sentimental but I need to cut 2 - Get a slab mold. I’m thinking 20 lbs sounds good. 3 - Find a couple more places...

What soap boxes are you using? What does the rest of the label look like in terms of elements? What's your "brand" mood board look like? If you want something cohesive, just showing a font isn't really going to resolve the whole packaging designing. Mid-century / Mid-century modern is soooo my...

I recently had my dishwasher serviced when my husband wasn’t sure what was wrong with it not working and leaking. The dishwasher guy took it apart and dig out all the particles of not broken down dishwasher packs. He said that is the number 1 thing he runs into with dishwashers. We did get a new...

I made a dog shampoo once out of the soap berries. I boiled them in water, then strained the solution and added some neem. Our dog had sensitive skin that she had a special diet. She was an Alaskan Malamute/golden Retriever mix so she was verrryyyy furry. It worked pretty well and didn’t bother...

I also use a modified recipe based on the Cada Molds recipe. I can’t keep bombs in stock and my kid loves them as well. I use 76 coconut oil instead of a liquid oil because i find it helps keep the bomb together when it all solidifies. I also lowered the SLSa and add just a bit of Pibk Himalayan...

Ahhhhaaaaauugghhh … How do vitamins survive saponification???? Just frustrated over what constitutes claims and marketing. it’s not been my week. I feel like I had so much to do and barely anything was done. I have hundreds of things that need labels and more things that yet need to be made...

I usually don’t attempt soap challenges more than a couple times because I’m so behind on other things but this one I realllllly wanted to get! I LOVE butterflies!! I have several tattoos and decor of butterflies that I knew I was going to have to have soap in it. I don’t think I’ve ever...

Hi Dawn! Welcome! I’m in NEPA! :) My family has sensitive skin and that’s why we started making soaps and stuff also!

How’s the lather? I’m interested in the foaming action of the Sodium Lauroyl Sarcosinate. It does have a higher pH. Did you test yours? Shampoo bars are a chemistry experiment all in itself. Have you read anything on SwiftCraftyMonkey? Pages and pages of reading - most behind a small paywall...

I totally forgot about all my looms! I can’t even list all my WIPs. They are every where.

Love the midnight waters one @The_Emerald_Chicken. Beautiful soaps.

The white mellowed out but you can see the partial gel. I may force it more

I’m with @dibbles and @Megan … I’m at S.A.B.L.E. Levels of yarn (stash acquired beyond life expectancy) and I’m not at all sorry. My husband has knives and guns and sporting goods way beyond my levels of yarn and craft supplies ownership. I have a current obsession with book binding / making...

I would never have thought about all those different kinds of charcoals especially in soap! And thank you. I was going to upload individual photos of each batch but I rather liked the compilation. :)

Any time I’m trying to get a bacon look I can’t. I recently made a pink and white soap that looks meat-ish with white and pink kaolin clays. It’s scented Hello Sugar from WSP.