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Peace for you and yours. It is never easy to lose a loved one, especially the very person who gave you birth. Don't forget to give yourself a special time to heal.

We just bought a new over the stove microwave and hubby was worried that the holes wouldn't match up with the new one, especially the vent to the outside. It appears that they are all standard. They give you a sheet of paper that is a template and it fit perfectly over the old holes. He had help...

Wow! Love the soaps. This is on my bucket list. I will need lots of practice in all stages. I'm horrible at detecting emulsion. I seem to blink and then it's at medium trace! LOL Thanks for sharing

I only put the syndet bars in the fridge overnight because the temps here were over 100 and probably more in my garage where I put the bars to solidify before taking them out of the mold. They went into my soaping storage after they were unmolded and have been there for at least a couple of...

I have lard in almost every soap I make. Love it. At one time I tested a bunch of FO's with a recipe of 80% lard and 20% Coconut Oil. The testing was a total bust, but it turned out the soap is now my grandson's favorite one. So once a year or so I make a whole batch just for him. Last time I...

Well, this was probably the first time I could say "frugal" and really mean it! LOL I love being a soaper and a quilter...most of us don't know the word nor care, either.

@AliOop Most of my trials kept to the same basic ingredients until I bought the DIY pourable recipes and I did not have two of them on hand. It was cheaper to pop for the Syndopour syndet bar base from Stephenson's. The test results for my daughter got interrupted by a hospital stay...only one...

I seriously looked at Volcano after all the raves, but passed as I'm not into fruity scents. When Carly B said it smells "almost like fruit punch" I was so glad I passed. I cannot tolerate that smell...I've never even sipped it as I know it wouldn't get past my tongue let alone slip down my...

And just how much have YOU spent on ingredients to perfect a syndet bar? LOL I'm still working on them and definitely do not tell my dear hubby how much I have spent! Although, to give him credit, it doesn't matter to him...just think he would be surprised at the cost of "testing" out the...

I'm going to take a break from my testing because right now I am comparing how my hair feels in the heat wave we are having with how it felt before the heat wave (and humidity). In the meantime, I will pop the bar into the freezer for a day or two just to see if it does change the feel somewhat...

I have not personally tested it , but their website says between 5-6.

Thanks you two, for all the hints. I know MMWV...it did when I bought a new crockpot after the old one bit the dust. And I do have to watch the new one a lot closer than the old one because even Low is higher than the old High setting. That and a quick (I thought) trip to the bathroom gave me my...

Wow! that was quick! Thanks for your answer....both for sizes and that you use it for both soaping and cooking. My crockpot is a 6 or 8 quart and the soap has expanded to use every bit of the size. I was concerned about that. Mine is a 4 quart size, so I might just carefully try it out even...

Great to hear about your testers! For traveling the shampoo bars are awesome! The first time I traveled after making the first of my syndet bars meant it was totally easy to get all my liquids in the quart zip bag. On my testing I actually managed to get my hair wet...in the shower with my...

Everytime you ladies talk about HP on the stove top I want to start looking for a heavy stainless steel pan! I finally got my knees and hips dealt with for arthritis...now it's in my shoulders, so know it won't be long before I am not going to drag out the crock pot for my soaping. In fact, I...

Update on my daughter's use. She keeps her hair short...post operative short...about 3/4" to 1" more or less. She has used the syndopour 3-4 times. So far no irritation at the cochlear implant site, so that is a big plus. She feels that the suds it produces is smaller than the other syndet bars...

@earlene Again I want to thank you for all of the mountains of information that you collected for me! I'm no chemist so a lot of it was way over the top for me to really understand. But I got the gist of the warnings and it was enough for me to not put rice in a shampoo bar. The bars do have a...

Again, thanks for the articles. My soap is HP so it should be good to go. My hair seems to take just about anything on it including lye soap, but my scalp doesn't like the sulfates in a lot of shampoos. Lots of reading to digest for me the next few days.

Thank you ever so much! I was not aware of this at all. I know she has not tried the shampoo as she is currently trying out the Stephenson's Syndopour that I gave her. I just texted her so that she does not use it until we figure this all out. I will also forward all the info to her and let her...

For anyone new, I'll let you know why I am here. Three years ago, my daughter had an acoustic neuroma and had brain surgery to remove it. She it deaf in the ear where the neuroma was located and has a cochlear implant in her skull. She got several irritations in the area around the implant that...