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Our local walmart has almost always has distilled water for .88 cents per gal. I do not know if this is a good price or bad price. I do know I have bought tons of it due to a battery for a solar system and now soap. Cheers gww

MO was a right to work state for a short time but then it was put on the ballot and rescinded by the voters by a two to one margin. Nurses however were knocked out of being able to be unions due to state supreme court saying they were management cause they could instruct orderlies. We all know...

Catscankim I would like to tell you that I always fall back on the meaning in the serenity prayer but I know that not to be true. I would be better off if it was though. My nose has lots of cuts to spite my face. However, since I believe in double standards and always told my kids to do what...

zany EOs are too expensive to make and then hand out like candy. Heck soap is too expensive for that also but that has not stopped me yet. I am thankful I have not graduated to EOs yet. Cheers gww

Resolvableowl Here are a few unmolded. I can't stand using little soaps when I could be holding a bar but my younger brother loves them and thinks they are neat. I have actually poured cold process in these molds and had them survive though I have broken the brittle plastic molds just by...

I know this shows what kind of slob I am right now but I was playing with soap bevel shavings and a microwave and small chocolate molds my brother gave me. wasn't doing anything else. The colored one is with a tiny bit of crayon the color that is laying on the mold and the size of the color...

I know there are many soap artist on this site but have to admit that color does not bother me at all if it works and does not have an off smell. I have a hard time throwing it away if it cleans and I like orange and if it goes brown, no biggie. You could rebatch and add color though...

My daughter gave me a cheese cutter. She got it at good will for 5 bucks. It was missing one of the pegs that held the wire which a panel nail fit just fine and I had to bend the arm to get the wire to hit the slot in the cutting board part. I used it today to trim up my ugly bars I had made...

I went with about 20 percent tallow and 15 percent coconut and castor and lard. My numbers came out close to yours but for the cleaning which was 11 on mine. I did worry about such high numbers on Linoleic Linolenic being close to 15 but only due to reading and not experience. Problem...

Tasha bird I just made some soap with deer tallow in them but they are not old enough to know how they act yet. Cheers gww

Misschief They look great. I did the opposite today. Made some bacon fat bars and I cut them while the center was too hot and the centers stuck together after cut and so they all are super rough in the center where I tried to push it back flat and the bars are warped and misshaped as well...

Just thought I would add one more amazon comment to this thread. I just bought a watch and while there decided to get some more lye. They had this thing that said if I used discover card bonus cash to pay with I could get 40 percent off up to 40 bucks if done before a certain time. So my...

Mobjack.... Being kind of uneducated, I had to look up the unfamiliar word but now don't have to blame it on the hamburger grease or this being one of the few times I actually heated up my oils to melting point. I appreciate knowing this. As a side note, the darker gelled center has mellowed...

48 hour test of my pink accident. Not earth shattering good or bad though I always find that using little shavings are harder to get working then a whole bar. Either way, I think it is going to dry into decent soap. It has no off smell, washed off well and even at this early stage, did not...

I don't know if this fits here or not but reading about this stuff and taking into fact my small batches are not 5 lbs batches, I used to think it kind of a waste to have to use freezer paper. The one thing I do like about it is that I can make flaps that extend above the mold and use these to...

Have I been making a mistake just putting my stainless steel bowl if oils directly on a gas burner on low? I do do heat transfer mostly but am too new to recommend it to others. Cheers gww

AliOop I don't really mind soap with partial gel. Since I started using a bit bigger mold, it is what I am getting with most and I do also unmold pretty fast (4/5 hour) and that also makes a small difference. I am only using and giving away and am right now using one with chicken fat in it...

Just a side note on my not knowing to rinse until too late on aloe. We always have aloe and when we get a burn, we just break off a leaf and start rubbing the goo on the burn. This habit set me up to having no clue about needing to drain latex first as we used it strait from dirt for burns...

Resolvableowl I did not remove the latex from the leaf. I done had it frozen in cube trays by the time I figured that out. It was clear to milky when I froze it. I guess I will rub a little on the inside of my arm at the elbow and see what it does before I use it whole hog. I got a feeling...

Should have turned the oven on or put in a cool place. Is the pink normal in soap with fresh aloe instead of water or did I let it get too hot when mixing the lye. Just curious cause it does not smell and is not my first partial gel and they all seem to clean ok. Cheers gww Ps good luck on...