Search results

Just made some soap last night, 100% flax oil (I know not ideal for soap, just testing I had it sitting around from years ago). In a crock pot. 0% superfat. No fragrances or coloration or anything. 38% water to oil or whatever. I did add a little water when it looked like it was drying out...

I made waaaaaaay too much soap. Thoughts on how to get rid of it (in a meaningful way) in a hurry? Obviously sell it or give it away. Can I use it as a dish detergent in my sink? Guess I would have to turn it into a liquid - soak it in water? Can I use it in the dishwasher? Can I use it as...

So I went with just what Baby Shoes said as far as the basic oils, using 40% lard 40% olive and 20% coconut (just a few grams off on occasion, as you will see below). I used the default soapmakingfriend soap calculator. So I didn't change any settings as to the lye/oil/water things, I just...

Hahaha, I know that is what I am supposed to do, but I could not resist, I tried it last night and it seemed just fine. :) Recipe coming here in a bit!

Thank you!!! Take 392 showers a day so I can use it all up to justify making some more. :)

Groovy.

That was sarcasm...

So, here is a picture I snapped last night. It actually came out better than I expected given how poorly the process went with the soap turning so hard on me and me having to stuff it in the mold by hand. Its like I was BORN to soap!!!! :) The 3 on the bottom right were just extra I had...

Well, I got it made, I can say that at least. But it was a complete failure. I was going to do a "one pot swirl" or "one pot wonder", but against good advice I did add fragrance, and when I added that and sodium lactate and the colors my soap went from what I think was a "heavy emulsion" - it...

I was just watching soaping videos and I saw this one: So, isn't banking soda fundamentally different from lye? Can it really make soap like that? If so, any thoughts on that type of soap? Side question: why can soap from Turkey and China be made SO much less than they can make it? Big...

Hi everyone. Well, I apologize, I was not able to make it today. I was, but my significant other wanted to go out with friends, so I had to watch the kid, I was not really comfortable making soap with him around this young (and wet under the ears) in my soaping career so I just took him to...

Thank you Nona and Efficacious one! The glass is laboratory borosilicate glass, capable of handling like 500 Celsius plus or thereabouts. Its a bit over-qualified for soap making. :) I do not know if the soap reached vaseline stage, I do not remember ever seeing that. But to me looking at...

LOL, just LOL...

Thank you Sarouche! Olive oil, check, I think I'll do just that. So for the amount of water, what calculator do you use? Because I mentioned in another thread soapcalc.net gives me a very big difference in the amount of water to use versus the brambleberry calculator (the brambleberry one...

Thanks MellonFriend, I was indeed just trying to be funny, like I was crazed with soap creating desire and wasn't going to listen to your good advice. Guess few if any found it funny. But thank you for the advice and not being offended, and apologies if it came off bad! Hoping to take my stab...

I was not trying to make anything creative here, just wanted to try 100% flax oil soap to see how it came out. See picture below. I mixed oil and lye solution in the glass, then set the glass in a big pot of water on the stove and turned the stove to the lowest setting possible. Water never...

The first batch of soap I ever made I used the brambleberry calculator. I thought it came out very darned good (it was just a simple pure canola oil soap). Then I switched to using soapcalc and others. My soap always seems to get "dry", really "thick" is the right word, before the lye...

Thank you dibbles! Oh I'm all ears, I'm looking for the easiest starter one possible and I will for sure screw it up! So a "pot swirl" - is there and favorite video of yours showing this? I found this one: It looks very similar to the "one pot wonder", in that you put all your colors in...

Thanks a ton earlene, and you as well MellonFriend! I need to study your posts and the various sources more, but I note off hand that the girl in those videos I posted mentioned in one of her videos that her colors she got from Nuture soap, so I'll probably order some from there as a starting...

Well then you'd be wrong. But, full disclosure, I was drinking when I wrote that last night and watching videos of people making these awesome looking soaps, so I was fired up a bit. :)