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I tried my first aloe soap today. Still a meat heavy recipe. The soap when I just molded it looks a bit pink compared to my very normal white that the meat makes. My daughter brought all her soap making stuff to my house at xmas and she had bought a giant aloe leaf. My wife always has aloe...

Marta I keep reading but do not know first hand that oak moss works wonders for covering tallow/lard smells. Cheers gww

Ladka I would think perspective wise that zings comments could just has easily been an attempt not to offend any other by pointing out who he was talking to. It could be looked at both ways and does not have to be looked at as a rubbing your nose in it type of thing but more as a recognition...

Some people feel funny about gifts. I have never been thankful for gifts or surprise parties in my name as I should be cause it makes me feel funny (embarrassed) and in a position that I need to think of a way to get even. I do not think this is correct of me but know it to be true. Why a...

I paid .344 cents per ounce at amazon for 64 oz but had to buy something else to get over the $25 purchase to get free shipping. I also bought 2 lbs of lye. So it all come up to about $35.98 bucks and so qualified for free shipping. I saw stuff fairly close to these prices on ebay. I did...

Cheapest I found was on amazon. Had to buy 64 oz and may have found some lower buy a penny an ounce if I needed a gal which I did not. Do need enough for free shipping or it is mute point on price. I will be interested in the responses I get from this thread. Walmart 6 ounce in my area was...

Any day of the week, I would take resolvableowls advice. Cheers gww

I am super new and only made about ten batches give or take. To be honest, I don't know the right or wrong but do know that I put my lye water in my oils the minute that it has cleared and I know is dissolved and while the cup is very hot. I put it in cold oils and let it melt the oils. So...

TheGecko That would be better and I knew it when I made it but in the end, it is working pretty good with out the extra work involved in doing that. I rock the soap a small bit for the last little bit and they are coming out good with just a small amount of potato peeler work to bevel the...

I am not a salesman. It is one of the reasons that I don't work my bees harder. I want just enough. I had one job for thirty years and when I retired, I promised myself that I did not want to do anything that ended up being another job unless it was what it took to survive. I am a low...

Did one more batch today. I did put the soap sideways as suggested. The one stop was good enough though it just barely fit where it is with the soap sideway, but it did fit. The soap was a little harder then I normally cut. There does not seem to be any wave in it now and the bars are good...

Zing I actually did look this up to see if there was a sensible way to do this cheaper with stuff I could find easy. Dibbles There is just barely room to lay the soap on the side, I might try that. Ugeau.... That might work better them my way. I also thought of just a box with a knife guide...

I do realize that I am running this into the ground and I am about to leave you all alone on it. I just thought incase somebody decides to make their own, I might throw out my ideal to stabilize the soap that may be an easy way if it ends up working of course. I am hoping the stop stabilizes...

Zing I never use lip balm, I am more like your brother in law in dress. However, I do have the bees and the wax and I do need to try and remember where to look for your recipe cause who knows. I like using things that I have for something that I can pretend is productive. I have not found a...

Ok, first use of my home made cutter. 30 ounce batch home made mold gives me 7 bars. As you can see, it did not cut with out wave but I did let the soap go catty corner while trying to cut. I do not know if it would fix it keeping it strait but my ideal is to put a grove in the bottom plate...

Got my booster today at walmart. Was a little surprised at the wait. First got moderna and to day Pfizer. Went hunting this after noon during extended doe season. Watched four little bucks for an hour. Go figure. I might have been sick as heck and it was hidden with adrenaline. My five...

I use 2.4 percent (approximate math) and divert part of my lye water to dissolve and add it to my oils before adding the lye solution. I do not know what speed to trace is fast but do know that the one time I timed it, it took 11 minutes and was still very manageable. No scent or color and...

I have no ideal about your question but the soap is very pretty. Cheers gww

My wife does lots of this painting old stuff new. Some was cheap stuff and some was stuff we bought new 20 years ago and did not seem the least bit hurt to me. I always think she is nuts on times like that but then she proves to me that her work really made stuff unbelievably better. I should...

A little early but don't know if that really counts as I have not used it yet. My version of a home made multi cutter that I mentioned earlier on this thread as a goal. As a side note, I actually cut this wood several years ago with a home made saw mill. Cheers gww