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Just a heads up for people about to soap with Winter Wonderland from Nurture. All reviews say no acceleration but that was not the case for me yesterday. I used a slow moving recipe with Lard and Palm that I have used numerous times. I am assuming it was because I soaped too hot for this...

I have been looking at that every couple of months and just can't pull the trigger. A couple of reviews on the site are from people that have used it for soap curing. If you end up buying it please let us know how it is.

I wouldnt be surprised if most of the beautiful ones you are seeing were made with melt and pour. Individual molds are harder to get cold process soap batter to gel so you would most likely get a matte softer type of look rather than those super shiny pics you have in your original post.

https://www.newenglandsoaps.com/how-much-oil-do-you-need-for-your-mold/ This shows 3 different formulas. Rectangle, cylinder and irregular molds.

Find out how much water in ounces fills 1 of those cavities and then multiply that by 6 to find out the volume in ounces to fill all 6 of those cavities. Take that number and multiply by 1.8. Take that number and then multiply by .4. This will give you the weight in ounces for the amount of oils...

Hemp oil has a very short shelf life and decent amounts of both Linoleic and Linolenic FA’s. Good label appeal for the crunchy patchouli loving demographic though.

I commend you for your honesty. I started making soap as a way to tame my anxiety and find a hobby that had a creative outlet for someone with not a creative bone in their body, As I started giving my soap away I got the usual "Oh why don't you sell your soap...." I dipped my toes into research...

These are the bars from this triple butter recipe that started this post.

I also love my lard recipe but I am giving my wife a bunch of bars to bring to her school (she’s a teacher) for people to take for Christmas and I wanted a bar with no Palm or animal fats. I don’t sell but I am going to make up labels and try to have it look professional because my wife thinks...

Lol. Just fixed it!

I have been testing a no Palm and no Lard recipe that uses Mango, Shea and Cocoa Butters. This triple butte recipe gives me such a different feeling bar then the recipe I use that has Palm and Lard and no butters at all. Both have some RBO and Coconut Oil. The triple butter recipe gives me a...

I am not sure what happened there but just a little advice - I would stick with a simple loaf mold at the beginning of your soaping journey. I know those little molds have super cute shapes but you have so much going on and seems like a very stressful soaping experience to me. Filling all those...

If you are coming up with 380g of water then you are not using the setting for Lye Concentration and/or Water/Lye ratio. You are using the default setting of water as a percentage of oils. 1000g of Olive Oil with 38% default setting of water as a percentage of oil will give you 380g of water...

There is no real valid reason that I have never ordered from Brambleberry. When I first researched how to make soap I watched a lot of the Soap Queen videos and she just rubbed me the wrong way. I got a weird Stepford Wives vibe from her and just never felt the desire to order from them.

I know I am going to sound like a jerk here but I commend all of you people out there who are so well thought out and so thorough in your responses even though the OP has given very little information to go on.. What does this even mean? Please if you are looking for help @Mom and daughter at...

Thanks so much for this. Very interesting. I have tried to get my wife to analyze some of my different soaps based on some of these same additive differences but she cant't be bothered. I agree with the Aloe Vera juice as a total water replacement. I started doing that a few months ago and...

Well. If we are equating it to booze related occurrences, mine was Southern Comfort. Amaretto also makes me gag becasue that goes back to my original reply of strong sweet almond smells making me ill.

"You associate it with something negative" When I was a kid I ate a boatload of marzipan and threw up because of it. Now anything with a heavy almond smell makes me gag instantly.

That is a great idea. My wife is willing to put my soaps in her break room at her school (she is a teacher) for people to sample for free but she wants me to list ingredients and be professional about it. I think I will use "manteca" as well in my ingredient list. I am a follicly challenged...

Here is my entry. I got some pretty trippy results and really like how it came out. Some of these other entries are spectacular and I could see myself trying this again. My picture of the drawing is probably not exactly what I did because to be honest I really don’t remember what I actually did...