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Thanks again all for the great ideas and help. I think now I'm on to learning more about the wild hogs in our area to see if/how I can get lard from them. A dream I had was to set up an RV next to a butcher or farm, they give me all their lard, and there is no waste. But I gotta start small...

All great suggestions and ideas. Thank you all. Having neighbors save bacon grease is a cool idea that I can probably get rolling the soonest. I've asked the butcher at the local grocery store once, and he told me wednesday was the day with the most fat, and I collected it once, but I'm pretty...

Hello, I try to be as zero-waste as possible. One thing I don't love about soap making is the containers that the fats/oils come in. If I was a hunter, I think I'd be set on lard, as we are literally paid to hunt wild hogs here in Texas. But I've never hunted. I'd be interested in contacting...

I only make soap to be used on the body, not the face. I use a face-specific cleanser on my face. But I've used it on my face and it's ok, I just prefer to have something that won't clog my pores, or leave a residue- not sure if my bar soap would do that- but I've began to be quite vain about my...

Dang, that's what I aspire to someday! Totally in awe!

Made a salt bar for the first time. Found the recipe in the recipes section of the website. yay!

Thanks, I'll check out the Cake Bible and Hershey's recipe. Yeah I bet the eggs are protected because they are incorporated. Not sure what the lumps were in my first cake, probably didn't stir the eggs in enough. Maybe if you did the creaming method, it would be better. I'm still learning a lot...

very cool- I'm trying to better understand the different classes of fats as presented in the book. It is a great read- I love learning about soapmaking and always seem to learn something very valuable from every book I come across. This is awesome, thanks for sharing slipperybubbles!

This may not be helpful, but I think sometimes people put soap in the freezer to harden? It doesn't look like you have too many liquid oils so I would think it would harden relatively quickly, especially with less water? I hope you solve the problem soon!! I'm sure they will be great soaps if...

Thank you! Honestly, I don't think I've ever gotten glycerin rivers, or rivers of any kind, but that's only luck! I'll have to do a little more research to try and understand them. I was pretty pleased with the white of the bars, because I used EVOO and that can always subdue colors a lot or...

Nice- I've been looking at the moon recently through binoculars. Really cool. I've tried looking at star charts but never got good at it. But even looking at bright starts in the sky, with binoculars, other stars that are invisible to the naked eye pop out. Space sure is fascinating! I live in a...

I tried a few new things with this recipe: I masterbatched the lye (well, just enough for this one recipe) and when I needed to add more liquid, I added boiling water to some titanium dioxide to see if it helped get rid of any clumps. I'm pretty new to TD, but it worked pretty good. Also I used...

Dang. If you can post your recipe, that may help me or someone else figure out what is going on. I know they make these devices that help people extract all the air from epoxy and/or other molds. It's like a pressurized container. Just so you know. It's overkill I know haha. I think the soap...

Are you sure those are air bubbles? I see the a little hole underneath the "u" in "rub" that I would believe is an air pocket. That's what my bubbles usually look like, little pockets of air. I have a KitchenAide as well and it seems to perform the same as the other immersions blenders I have...

I went to a fair a couple of years ago, after having been making soap for a few years, off and on. I said, only to name drop, "So, do you do hot process or cold process?". I think maybe someone asking esoteric questions like that is kind of a give away of new soap maker. I think I got the...

If you go to Soapmaking Kits | Bramble Berry there are some beginner soap making kits. May be more expensive than other options, but it may be the what you need to get soaping ASAP! Cardboard boxes can be used as molds. Do you have any oils in the pantry laying around, getting old? Weigh them...

Is that for sanitary reasons? Because I believe the boiling water was to "bloom" the cocoa powder and make it more tasty.

Hi there, welcome to this awesome forum! I'm sure a more experienced soaper will jump in momentarily buy I'll add my 2.5 cents. I use Soap Calc but I bet they're the same in this regard... So, when you set your superfat, all that should do is decrease the lye amount. So, for example, if you want...

I also do paper crafting. I enjoy origami and it is probably the craft I have been doing the longest. I had to make a box for selling something on eBay and I enjoyed it so much I make cardboard boxes for the heck of it now... who said we are all differently creative? I am proof there's no limit...

Thanks! Blue mica. Unfortunately I'm not sure of the company.