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I have not (yet) made any lip balms nor have I purchased any from hand crafters. So while I was aware of the existence of flavor oils versus fragrance oils, I hadn't looked into the differences. This information is very helpful, thank you!

My experience is CBD oil isn't cheap and including in excess of 14% of your oil weight in CBD oil will be very expensive. Even for just hemp oil, depending on the supplier, it might not be cost effective. Additionally that recipe uses in excess of 14% castor oil which is high (most people...

I COULD fall down the rabbit hole of buying all the micas... but I stopped myself by deciding, and following through on it, to get a set of "average" or "mid-point" colors for the 6 big rainbow categories: red, orange, yellow, (edit to add because somehow I missed it) green, blue, and purple. I...

I really want to second a dermatologist, especially if an allergist didn't look into skin-related allergies. Because your options are, and this is from a novice soaper and someone NOT in the medical field, becoming swiftly limiting with soap. You've eliminated, basically, all the options for...

So... just gotta ask: have you tried working this problem out with an allergist and / or dermatologist? With the list of oils you've experienced issues with, it may be better to seek a medical opinion for a hypoallergenic and possibly medicated option.

Speaking as a consumer, if I bought your soap with a MP embed and the only ingredients you listed were the CP ingredients, when / if I learned about it I would consider you to have engaged in duplicitous or harmful labeling practices. I would never purchase from you again & would actively...

I was unaware of there being natural surfactants? I thought all of them were considering synthetics?

I've ONLY used micas myself. They seem to be very easy to use, they disperse fairly evenly throughout the soap so you don't get speckles or clumps. Can be added straight to batter or dispersed in some oil and then added (oil can either be taken from base before you add the lye or simply added to...

NDA sells a lot of different oils, including grapeseed. So you can buy the oils and make the soap yourself. But I don't know of any place that just sells soap made from the more uncommon oils, not only because of the rancidity problem @Obsidian mentions but also the cost. The uncommon ones are...

Completely off topic but... rarely does anything make me feel young these days. But this did since your daughter is 3 years younger than my mother. >_> Which is not meant to be an implication that anyone is old. Just that I'm excited to feel young. Now if greys would stop forming in my beard...

I hit the button for 3 minutes and then the button for "add 30 seconds". My microwave is cool like that. Aside from that, I would set for 3 minutes 30 seconds. Most microwaves don't, in my experience, do fractional minutes; they only operate in seconds and minutes.

3) The Fierce type from Brambleberry notes that it DOES discolor, stating to a purple. Based on their own pictures that isn't a strong discoloration but you should expect some changes to whatever colorants you use. Stronger colors will (mostly) overcome this in my experience with other similar...

Tap and bottled non-distilled water will work with CPAP machines but are known sources for mineral buildup which, over time, will degrade performance. There also much more likely to be sources of bacteria and CPAP machines are already often filthy and can house bacteria colonies unless cleaned...

I sincerely hope there isn't some kind of distilled water shortage. I need / use that in my CPAP and I'm nearly out...

Came back to add... I was just able to check and I have the exact same GV olive oil in my cupboard for soaping. So, yeah, I DO just pick the not-pomace option for this and run with it. No issues so far. =D

The difference between olive oil and olive oil pomace is negligible and should be within the margin of error, tolerance-wise. That said this article states that "refined" olive oil is just a refined virgin olive oil. And there's no difference on that lye calc for refined, virgin, and extra...

Winston and Walter, a Canadian company, does. I saw it on a YouTube channel. The link below is just one product. They appear to do it on most of their molds, including slabs. They appear to mostly do tall and skinny molds (and slabs that divide into tall and skinny loaves) though...

*suddenly remembers the hangar swirl tool I haven't used yet*

Looks like a loaf of bread. I can haz slice for breakfast...? lol

Yeah AFTER posting the edit I started looking it up. Found a juniper berry infusion blog post elsewhere. Didn't look like the oil had changed color at all. Phoo. It sounded like it could be interesting. But if the science says it won't work then I don't want to waste the money or the food!