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Very stressful soaping session last night, I don't really like soaps that lie/lye to me! 😅 I pulled my pine tar soap out of the mold this morning, and it had a fairly large pool of separated brown liquid in the bottom half of it. I have attached my recipe below and a picture of the bottom...

That tape idea sounds fantastic! I'll definitely try it.

Rock salt and drift wood sounds amazing! Where is it from?

That soaping session nearly had me swearing 😬😅 first I made the mistake of setting my identical container of water right next to my lye container, and panicked for a second before realising the lye one would be hot. I then realised I forgot to line my mold, as I took it apart several times...

I loved your poetic intro btw!

Thanks!

What would be a basic trinity tweak that would add a significant amount of tallow to the recipe? (I hope this thread isn't too old to resurrect 😬)

Thanks! I don't own a microwave, so that won't be an issue! My castor oil arrived today, so now I have to recalculate how I want to do this.. I might try a small batch both with and without it to compare.

Thank you for your advice! Yes, I assumed I should not add any additives. I could add some palm oil for some more hard oils. I checked our local Walgreens for castor oil, and they did not carry it, but I ordered an 8 oz bottle on Amazon today. How important is castor oil? It seems like it's in...

I'm finally making time to make some more soap! I'm tired of waiting to try and get some castor oil 😅 I have some pine tar, the goal is to make something my husband likes enough to be ok with my growing soap making habit.. In addition to the oils in my recipe right now, I also have a bit of...

Thanks! I'll take a look at those. I have been dying to make more soap, but I haven't been able to with the weather! But a slight positive among a bunch of negatives is that I now have a whole bunch of tallow from my FIL's cows that sucumbed to the cold 😬😅

I don't have any advice, but I just wanted to say I hope you're doing ok! I'm in Southern Oklahoma, and we have had some rough days. Currently staying with my husband's parents until we get water and heat back. They lost 4 cows today to falling through the ice 😕

Who do you buy from on Amazon?

This is really good info to know! I just got a sample of this fragrance, and I was going to use it as my first time ever using one! I don't have a recipe formulated yet.

Thanks, that's good to know. I did look at the test notes on their website a bit.

Not yet! My first batches are still curing.

I received my fragrance oils @rdc1978 sent me! I'm so excited! I was trying to research them on the fragrance review spreadsheet, but a couple of them are not on there. I'm so inexperienced, I'm scared to use them without knowing how they will act! Anyone able to share notes on using Nurture...

Oh, ok! That's pretty similar to what I've done with Zote before I started making soap myself.

Ooh, where can I find a recipe for this laundry butter?!

I know it can be troublesome for old forum threads to get dredged up, but I for one love it! I am so new to this, I never would have looked far enough back, or have ever thought to search for such an interesting topic!