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Got my "attempt" poured today but I'm very very skeptical of it right now. To start with I've been having a weird thing going on with my sugar syrup turning the lye solution red... I made a new syrup in case that was the problem but it still went a vivid orange colour. Not like caramelised sugar...

Re: silica packs, I've been buying the rechargable ones from Amazon for my 3d printing filament and I can recommend them so far. What I like is that they're a known weight - when they get above (I think) 650g you just microwave them to get them back down to 500g. I also have some cheap digital...

I don't know any of these fragrances but bamboo sounds lovely!

Well, yesterday I did a bunch of the prep for the challenge soap. We're still in the process of converting the old cow shed (some may remember it as the kill room) into a proper craft room, but everything is in odd places at the moment. It took me an awful lot of energy to find all of the...

Great article! I love IrishLass' creamy Shea and cocoa butter LS, but I find it tricky to scent because it contributes some strong notes of its own. I found sandalwood worked surprisingly well.

I think I recognise the packaging; mystic moments? I have a couple of their FOs and they seem legit enough, but I would always recommend testing because you never know how a FO will react with your specific recipe. I haven't tried it myself but I've read that diluting your FO in a portion of...

I was playing around with the calc today trying to get a recipe with a good percentage of lard and ended up with a graph rather similar to yours with 70% lard and then 10% each of coconut, castor, and tallow. Not necessarily recommending that recipe (yet) since I haven't actually tried it, but I...

After all the fretting, I went to make shampoo bars last night... And discovered I was out of slsa 🤦‍♀️ I guess in the excitement of mum visiting I didn't keep my inventory properly updated, so I had to order some more but it will take a couple of weeks to get here. In the meantime I tried yet...

The lather is great - I liked everything about these bars except that maybe they for used up just a tiny bit faster than would be ideal (maybe sure to the slightly high level of sodium lauroyl sarcosinate). Other than that they were basically just what I'm looking for in a shampoo bar. I...

If the placement of the heart could be slightly adjusted, you could do one layer at a time and allow to set up until you reach either the blue or the black layer above the white, then set the heart on top of that layer on its flat side, and continue on. That would give the least amount of...

That bad, eh? 🤣 Not sure if I should interpret the silence as "it's clearly fine, what's she fretting about" or "I don't want to be the first to tell her it's utter madness"...

Ah, interesting! I do use it in mine and I *think* it helps, but I also CPOP so it's hard to say how much each of these contribute...

From what I can tell, the hardening effect only happens in the short term - ie for those who get impatient to unmould! After those first days I don't think it makes much of a difference.

There's certainly a bunch of phases it can be done in if necessary. Working in fits and starts you can get to the point where the solid oils are measured out into one (covered) container, liquid oils in another, mica weighed, dispersed in oil or water and divided between pouring jugs, and...

How very meta!

I'm about 90% sure I'll be able to join the challenge, but I'll wait to sign up until I'm totally sure! I decided at the last minute to take a week off work since I had 4 days not spoken for, and a bank holiday this coming Monday 😁 By rights I should do it today since it's my soap-iversary, but...

Adding to the above, the guidance you may have seen to add coconut oil to boost lather applies specifically to soap made from scratch, using lye. It's the reaction of the lye with the coconut oil that gives the benefit to the lather. Since there is no remaining lye left in M&P soap to react...

This may be a strange request for feedback since I've already made this and I like it, but the world of syndets is still a bit new and scary to me so I'd like either some reassurance or a nudge in the right direction here. This recipe originated when my mum was visiting - I'd promised her we'd...

Yeah it was about the only thing I could think of! A shame it doesn't seem to be possible, because between my phone and paper I think I'll stick with paper.