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I feel for you as I have been in the same situation, but a less expensive route. Mine was a needlework shop in a corner of my house waaaay back when that was very popular. What i found was similar to others, I no longer had the time to work on my own projects, which was the fun part of the...

Yes, I meant to say Mango rather than Shea Butter. I just subbed the Cocoa butter. I want to try the other recipe she listed too, but since this works it's sort of , "Why bother".

I also tried the Mango with the SLSa and Polyquaternium 7. I was searching for a recipe that did not affect the skin around my daughter's BAHA implant (bone anchored hearing aid). I had other recipes that were too high in SCI and/or used sulfates, even tried a shampoo bar as she was shampooing...

I learned the hard way to NEVER leave your HP soap while it's cooking! Even for a minute. I left the room to check my dryer which is steps away from my kitchen counter where I was soaping. I don't remember the recipe but know it wasn't 100% CO...probably no more than 10-15%. I caught it while...

They are gorgeous soaps. Not sure they would care what you made it out of!

Thanks linne for the helpful hint about a nickel...very helpful since I own a battery powered scale. I started out with HP soap and didn't even try CP for 3-4 years. My advice would be to stick to one method and get good at it, make small batches so you can figure out what you actually like in...

I just had my first cup of coffee this morning and it ain't enough to keep up with this thread! I've bookmarked it so I can read it when my mind is at the necessary levels of comprehension. My first thought with the thread was "Oh, lordy, just pass up the oil...ain't worth the bargain to figure...

Sorry for your loss. This is a hard time for friends and family.

I was surprised at the difference in the feel of the lather. It feels silkier than my regular cured soap, and I think even makes the water feel silkier when it rinses the soap off in the shower. I've used in varying percentages of RBO, lard, butters and don't find much difference other than with...

My daughter is into ink...on her new tattoos she just showers as usual with my soap and then puts an oil over the top of the ink to keep it moisturized. I believe that she got it from the tattoo artist, so have no idea what it is. My usual soaps are made with lard, RBO and either shea or cocoa...

When I first came to this site, I was looking for a nice hard bar of soap,too. It took a while but I finally realized I was looking for longevity in my soaps, not necessarily hardness. After spending hours on here I was glad I hadn't popped for getting some of the ingredients that I thought...

I live closer to the Boise area and although the state has just now implemented no elective surgeries for all hospitals, it has been going on down here for a long time. I was a candidate for hip replacement and that should have taken 1-2 months to get diagnosed and have the operation. Instead...

I had my booster and a normal flu shot the same day, in the same arm. All three of my covid vaccines were pfizer. The first one was the worst with a sore arm the first day, and no energy the second. Just a sore arm for the second one and third one. Just sore enough that I didn't want to sleep on...

I love what you did on the top...and I think the colors are divine. Last time I ended up with a plop and glop I couldn't even drag a spoon over the top to make it look nice! I love it!

PKO was one of my first big mistakes in soaping...I thought it was just a more convenient way to use Palm oil and used it in a batch of soap. I was doing HP soap at the time so knew that the soap was not zappy, but none the less, I panicked and immediately went to the soap calc and recalculated...

Definitely off subject, but when I lived in the interior of Alaska we cleared an area of our land to form a volleyball court. A friend brought us a dump truck filled with glacial sand/mud for the court. After the first v'ball party we had the court was like concrete and my husband had to devise...

My journey has been very similar....I didn't start until around 2012, when I was 70. My learning curve was pretty gradual at first, until I got onto this site and unlearned some of the bad habits that I learned on the internet. I haven't looked back since!

I was ready to buy some of them at an auction until my daughter suggested I lift one...we piled a few things into it that we thought might weigh as much as soap would. I could lift it, but she reminded me that as I age I am not getting stronger. That was about 4 years ago, and some of the best...

I hadn't thought of the silica gel packets. I give soap to my daughter in Hawaii and told her to store my soaps in a box with them...never thought that she might use them without drying them out. I'll have to remember to tell her that next time we talk soap. She give me the least feedback, so I...