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I make so many green woodsy scents for men. That green is surely a mix or blend of pigments, micas, etc.

Gorgeous green color. What was used for it?

Very nice colors and pour

It’s fascinating how people discover soap making and then this forum. I started around 2004 when husband helped neighbor butcher his huge heifer w/loads of clean white fat I rendered. Made first CP batch of plain lye soap from TheSage recipe site. Graduated to hot processed for faster cures and...

So appreciate those encouraging words. And I learn still in my many years on earth.

I understand and am more than willing to learn from the forum members. I got this info long ago from an old site I can’t recall. I’ll be more careful with info I post. I appreciate the safety advice repeated from caustic Soda mfg.

Prayers go up for the people, animals, trees & their lands.

I understand and appreciate your response. It works for me immediately when I splash cooking soap or lye solution on me. Has to be diluted 50/50 white vinegar. This is not recommended by SMF.

Have you tried beeswax to harden instead? Seems that MMSage has a coffee soap recipe for cleaning fish stinky hands etc. I made it long ago and liked it. Added the strong coffee water (apart from lye H2O. Also some finely ground ( itty bit ?) to trace. Recipe is still on MMS.

Try all butcher s, meat packers, grocers cattle ranchers for butcher time. I’ve actually taken my buckets and helped cut off fat. Rendering is a pain but after a few washes you get white hard beautiful tallow. Makes fabulous soap!!

Thank you for the info. I love trying new recipes and love cranberries and bread. Have a great new year! I did not know that. Thank you for that info and site to learn more.

(Any animal advocates skip this one.) I started my passion with that great white soap. Only mine was from an old humongous heifer ,Helen, the neighbor slaughtered. Must’ve been 150 lbs. I only had 3 - 5 gal. buckets. Took me 3 days to render her beautiful fat to hard white tallow. Started my...

Used to watch Deadliest Catch just to hear it again. Don’t mind this ‘ear worm’ :lol:

Math, %s and exact measuring was a little challenging for me at first. Wish I had found SMF long ago. This site has many good tips to become a competent soaper.

Having vinegar H2O 50/50 solution near helps when you get any lye on you. I also have a soft rag that I wet down in the vinegar & wipe my arms face etc. before I start. The vinegar water neutralizes lye immediately. I don’t always wear gloves so I can immediately feel if I’ve gotten lye on my...

My gripes are inanimate objects! Clothes hangers catching, forgetting what I did with...., why I came in here, getting up at dawn & not getting it all done, robo calls that I should’ve answered, & hangers!!