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I stopped using olive oil as it makes my skin itch, year round. I spent many hours on this forum trying to figure out why my soap was acting like all of the commercial "soaps" that I had been using. Lots of testing by eliminating each of my ingredients (PO, OO and CO) and OO was the last to be...

@AliOop These days I wouldn't be surprised if I had said that! LOL I also could have stated it a little more clearly, too! I'm great at thinking faster than I type!

Before I had a sizable inventory of soap, I was lucky to get 3 weeks for a cure. Even with a short cure, any of my soaps were nicer than any of the commercial bars that I was using. Now I'm ahead of the game and the average that I gift or use my soaps are more like 6 months. But I'm pretty sure...

I love the creamy lather of lard soaps. I've gone to lard, rice bran oil, and a butter, except for my grandson who likes 80% lard and 20% CO. To tell the truth, I'm not sure my old skin can tell the difference in any of the combinations that I use...just that it likes the soap. When I play with...

I think they last longer when I put them in the bags rather than direct pressure on my hair/scalp.

I added "take pics" to my note on silk in soap. I'm sure it will be winter here before I get a chance to soap again...not that I need any! Say November sometime.

Wow! @dragonmaker thank your husband for that query! I have boxes of kimono pieces stashed away (don't ask!) in various colors that I can use. I have no time to soap right now, but I can deconstruct or fray the pieces of silk for future small batches of soap. I'll try to remember to take pics of...

Well, I made the bars yesterday. My first official Goat Milk Powder soap. No, there was no scent other than what I put in the soap. I gathered together a mixture of oils that had been hanging around my soaping area for a long time, none had enough to use as a main oil in any of my recipes, it...

Wow! Recipes and suggestions all over the place. It will be a slow process for my daughter...usually 5-6 shampoos before her implant will get itchy or irritated. Then if it gets bad she has medication to help heal before she tries another new product. Sometimes she just isn't in the mood to be a...

Ummm! That gives me a few ideas! Just what I need...enablers! LOL

See the post above this one. If I can't find an easy pourable recipe she will use the Syndapour after I can no longer supply anything better. LOL But overall it is still giving her the feeling that it is not clean after a day. I even notice it on the days that she doesn't shampoo. That's okay in...

Well, between you and @Zany_in_CO it looks like I might be making goats milk soap this weekend instead of quilting! I'm sort of stuck on a design problem anyway!

For several years now all of my soaps have been with some combination of lard and RBO as the two main ingredients. We love the soap on our skins and neither of us had problems using the soaps on our hair. When her implant got infected after her brain surgery I immediately thought it had to be...

I am also one of the "few" people who can use a lye based soap on their hair. I have been trying to formulate a syndet bar for my daughter who has a cochlear implant. She is able to use one of my recipes and she can also use the Syndapour but it leaves her with bed head, which on hair that is...

Thanks so much for the quick reply!

Not too long ago I finally bought a can of powdered goats milk. I've been looking at fresh and old threads to get info on what and how to do it. Does adding the powder to the oils produce the smell? or is it just the fresh milk that is producing it? It will definitely make a difference to when...

When I first started soaping I used the Trinity oils. My skin felt blessed as opposed to the detergent bars that I had been trying out. Then after a couple of years, I noticed that my skin was itching again. I changed out the palm for lard which improved but didn't get rid of the itch...

I have been testing both the Syndapour bars and my old recipe for syndet bars that have to be molded rather than poured. I tested each one 5 times with 2-4 days between shampooing. I have fairly curly fine thin OLD hair. With the Syndapour bars the process couldn't be easier. That is the...

I rarely do CP but have experienced soda ash! But have not necessarily been careful to avoid it either. I have always wondered if humidity plays a big part of DOS, but not enough to check it out with searches. I just call myself lucky. PS: used to live in Estes Park for a while and Loveland...

I have one bar left that is over two years old with 60%RBO, with cocoa butter, PKO and castor oil. No DOS in it. My usual recipe starts with 40% lard and 30% RBO with the rest just whatever I seem to have on hand. Olive oil is not in any of my recipes as it makes my skin itch. I love the...