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Is it a gel thing? Since the individual mold stayed green? My individual molds never gel.

Yes, that is a beautiful white. I wonder what your oils are. Am planning to reduce my olive to almost nothing in hopes of a whiter base. Will up the ZO also. Thx

I wonder the same thing, I want me some white soap!

I wish I could smell that blend. Sniff, sniff, hope you show it, too.

Well, I am pretty sure someone will be laughing up their sleeve at this photo, but hey. I am given to subtlety or something like that. Maybe dullness. This is my first try with the "kaleidasoap" idea. The tool I made has been hanging there for months waiting. I only divided my batter in two...

I powder the rose petals and run through a fine strainer also same with lavender flowers. they each add a different kind of brown speckled appearance to the soap. done this way, you can't feel them, just see the detail. And I like it on the label.

Wow, sister-soapers in Mexico! Yay! Chiming in from San Miguel de Allende, I shop at local Costcos (there are two within an hour's drive) and Avocado oil that I recently bought cost $199 pesos for one liter. To me, that translates to 29 cents an ounce in USD at today's exchange rate . That is...

could you take the piece out and sand the rough/unfinished edge and put it back??

I tried using some rhubarb tea to color a small test batch. Trying out a tallow/lard/co/oo combo. First time with that, will try again with some infused oo to see if it comes out a different color, I really want a pink. And the blue is some indigo and a blend of rosemary/Lavender EO in a...

making my own skin care producte is a way of controling and lightening the toxic load on my body that we, as americans, citizens of the industrial modern age worldwide are under. I avoid ingesting also.

I melt in a crock pot. With bigger batches (like 8 pounds) i do the whole thing in there. But for smaller batches it is nice to just use an electric teakettle to heat some water and make kind of a double boiler, the hard oils melt really quickly. I like to keep it simple, but plan on building...

As the day has worn on, it is becoming more and more butterscotch looking. Never again Goat milk instead of Oatmilk! That one letter makes a biiiiiiig difference!

Thank you, you are so kind!

I wanted that really delicate pink color and pure white, a pastel look for a special friend of mine. I can't believe that after all these years, even when I try so hard to pay attention, I can still make such boo-boos. The white ice cubes in the freezer turned out to be goats milk not oat milk...

Spirulina: brown soap, no problem, anything to keep from having to eat it!

You can do it! Necessity is the mother of invention, and you are creative to begin with or you wouldn't be here. I hope you get relief.

It is the $55 Essential Depot one in silicone and the soap measures a full 3 inches across. It will last forever and both endcaps are removable. I like it and leave the soap one extra day compared to the wood/paper liner. Then, getting it out isn't a problem. Silicone Cylindrical Mold -...

Since I have recently made smaller batches, I have found that I get bubbles from the stick blender even if i burp it, so I poured through a tea strainer and it cleared them. I think I commented the soap was like 7-up.

what helpful information lard at 140. Thank you! I will watch this aspect more carefully, though I have never had a problem and as a freckle-face myself, I never worry if my soap has extra interest.

I have not been soaping lately, but the 25 experimental batches made during lockdown are all reaching their cure dates, or past that and I have stacks at the bathtub and all the sinks that I continue to pick up and try. Favorite formulas are beginning to emerge. I have wondered if the...