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Well, since I have completed 14 tallow experiments and I am really liking the soaps, I figured it was time to get over my aversion to lard in soaps, so I bought some for the next series of experiments. At 29 pesos per 500 gms, that translates to about $1.50 per pound US or 10 cents an ounce...

Oh, yeah! Definitely.

I worked out my formula using a lye calc over 20 years ago. I looked for how much of each property the formula offered, such as conditioning bar, bubbles, creamy lather, etc. and came to ratios that sounded good to me. I have stayed with that formula for the whole 20+ years! If I want goat's...

"so maybe I could do Berry and Coconut Blizzard?" I think it dresses it down to name it after a Snow Queen blizzard. I like the name Frenesí which includes things like frenzy, fury, wildness. The bar has a sophisiticated look in my eyes because of how clean the contrast is.

How much black pepper can you use? Just a touch?

Yes, Mobjack, I agree. And I always drool over Jersey Girl's soaps, too. Amazing stuff.

How are you able to tell that it lacks oomph? By looking? and how old is it? Mine has been on the shelf for quite a long time, at least a couple of years and since I have never used it, I couldn't compare one performance to another. But I am just about ready to try a liquid soap with no...

I offered one butcher a trade and he trimmed up the sebo (the fat around the kidneys, white, dry and crumbly) for me and gave me a ton in exchange for only one bar of pachouly soap. If I were you, I would try for something like that. My second butcher didn’t trim it up, dumped some bones on me...

The first bars I made are cured now and I am liking them for their creamy lather and they are hard like rocks. I used 5% superfat in the beginning and I think that my old crackley sensitive celtic skin likes 7% better so have been moving that up a bit on later batches to see if they will be...

:) thank you! I think I will take my 8 pound molds and plant geraniums in them! Small batches are so much more fun. So flexible.

Looking forward to seeing your results, you are not as I am..... swirl challenged!

Experiment #14 I made another small batch, still testing tallow subbed for palm. This one has tallow 35%, olive 30%, coconut 20%, shea butter, cocoa butter and castor 5% each. I used 3 different clays for a 3 color soap but the green clay didn't happen, so it just looks like 2 color, rose...

I just upgraded from a metal box cutter to a single wire cutter. The ability to change the depth or thickness of the bar is worth a million to me, so I encourage you in that direction for the sake of flexibility. The metal cutter takes up no space for storage, though.

Thank you so much for saying this, I revisited the site and found things I had not seen before. Important things, like adding a photo and saving the file. You are right, this is a great calculator. I would have overlooked it.

Thanks, but not the volume of the tube, I just have trouble wrapping my head around how to cut the paper liner. The inside of a circle throws me! duh. I think the volume is already decided, and I have mastered that calculation recently, thanks to this group.

so pi times the diameter? 3 X 3.14 for the circumference X the length. I have ordered soapcrafters 3" silicon mold, it hasn't arrived yet. everyone says getting the soap out is a bit tricky, one video had them putting a little water in, which seems slippery. it will be another adventure...

I just love your soap. So natural and pretty. How do you line these tubes, what material do you use?

Very beautiful and well photographed. A pleasure to see your work.

with the Almond Oil Soap and the RBO Soap. Just made little batches today. I just bought a couple of molds that look like the ones you are using and one of the reasons I did was so that I wouldn't have to line them with paper any more, like my wood ones. Was I wrong? or does it become...

Experiment #12 I am still messing around with oat milk and am changing the percentage of tallow, this one is 30%. And since I am switching over in dyeing fabrics from using procion dyes to only natural dyes, like pomegranate skins, it is having a ripple effect on my soaping. This is colored...