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I am in love with this soap. I'm going to have to make something like it. Tomorrow!

I JUST finished cleaning the ashes out of the fireplace. Should have saved them to make lye. 🤣🤣. No, not really. I love reading about your experiments but I'm still using lye from a bottle....

I made a batch of loofah soap, and also a batch of soap with a new fragrance (grapefruit and Bergamot) mostly so I could test out a new mold divider I made for myself. The divider worked great, I hope the soap swirl comes out 🤞🤞

Looking cute is his only talent, but I must admit he's quite good at it!

Congratulations to you and Potato. All of our best dogs have been rescues. Here's our current pup. His name is Frank.

I like this mold but it's very thin and tends to bulge. I raided my kids room and built a support out of Legos for it. 🤣. I was inspired by someone else here who made one for a milk carton.

Your bananas will probably come back. They sometimes live here in zone 8b, and always in zone 9.

What size PVC are y'all using for this? I went to the hardware store (because I NEED another mold 🤣) and they all looked either too big or too small...

Mine was slightly damaged by the heat, but not very noticeable. Here is a picture of the cooled loaf. The line down the middle is where my son let it rest against something, not a crack. 🙄. I'll uncover it the next time it gets over 130. ETA- I don't have a set recipe. I guess a better...

I have a forest in my house too. I am picking up some camellias at a camellia show tomorrow and DH is not thrilled that I'll be adding to the forest in the house before I get them in the ground. I promised him they'd be outta here by Monday night 😁

My friend who was supposed to come over and make soap cancelled- AGAIN. I made some anyway- a HP scented with black salt and Cypress with coffee grounds, and a FANCY cold process batch scented with Mediterranean Fig. It has Shea butter and pink kaolin clay and gold mica on the top. I hope the...

After I posted that, the temp dropped to 130, and it's now at 110. Looks good. I still want to know, though. At what temperature should you uncover it to prevent cracking, alien brains, etc.

Welcome! I love many things about making soap, and science is one of them!

I made a loaf of CP soap and just checked on it- seemed hot so I took it's temp with my heat gun. 140F. How hot does it have to get before it causes alien brains? In other words, should I uncover it or leave it alone?

Did you ever try tallow in salt bars? If so tell me how it turned out please!

Did the glycerin add anything to it? Do you think the result would be the same if you just used everclear (drinking alcohol) and distilled water instead? Fun experiment. Can't wait to hear how it turns out!

This is the top of a soap I made in a Pringles can. It was scented with peppermint. The red didn't come out the color I was hoping for but the soap itself was lovely.

Missed your question. It's pine scented.

Thanks for your help. PirateShip was simple to use and much cheaper than flat rate boxes. Mailed 3 boxes today!

The soap was not a flop after all! It looked perfectly normal this morning. I sorted and put away my new fragrances from the WSP sale, and received a 5lb shipment of Shea butter. Scheduled a soaping session with a friend on Friday, but I might have to make some tomorrow too... Sounds like...