Search results

I made my first batch of soap dough about a week ago. It was the sorcery soap one, and the texture was pretty good. I tried making flowers in a cane, but they ended up looking weird. I finally made some simple daisies. They're not bad, but nothing to write home about.

I just finished making soap with varying amounts of citric acid. I used 0, 1, 2 and 3% citric acid, and added extra lye to compensate as per blog posting by classic bells about citric acid. I was hoping that the 3% citric acid would be outrageous, and I'd have weird crystals, or blobby soap, or...

16. neonstudy

I agree that you should try lard. You can buy it at almost any grocery store. The most moisturizing soaps for me have no coconut oil, 50% lard, high superfat and have milk.

Here is my soap! It's called Pink Staccato. I used the technique shown in the video. I have 3 colors of soap, a dark pink, a light pink with glitter, and uncolored. I split my batter into 3 batches, added the different colors, and then just poured the light pink and dark pink in the middle while...

My attempt #2 was still kind of blobby. I'm doing citric acid tests in small molds (4" log), so did attempt #3 as my citric acid test and it turned out way better. So I didn't cut the log at all vertically, just did one cut horizontally, but having the extra area was really good to make a heart...

Here is my first failed attempt. Not quite sure what it reminds me of. Tadpole?

I'll post a fail tonight! :) My first attempt was very blobby, the "heart" section was too large. I made a second attempt, and made smaller blobs, so had 2 "hearts" in each soap. I'm thinking that might be my entry, but it's not very impressive.

1. Kittish 2. dibbles - <3 this! 3. newbie- I have an eye to doing this a bit differently but still ending up with a heart in the middle. That's okay, I hope! 4. earlene - Hooray! I've been away from the challenges for too long, so am looking forward to this one. 5. BattleGnome - which mold...

Okay, thanks.

Hi! I'd like to make a solid conditioner bar. I bought 3 ingredients from BB for this: Btms- 50 DL-Panthenol Cetearyl Alcohol Plus I have various oils and butters for soapmaking. I have this as my first trial recipe. Do you have any feedback about the percentages? Anything I should add? 64%...

You should make a solid lotion bar. You can use beeswax for that. Add coconut oil, some butter, like cocoa butter, or avocado butter, and I add tallow to mine too. I know there's an eww factor to tallow but it works great, especially now that it's winter.

You should make a small batch with much lower cleansing. You could go for 0, just for reference. I have multiple bars this way, with no coconut or PKO. You'll never know until you try. I definitely prefer an under range cleansing number for myself, like 5, but I feel weird selling soap like...

I've used hops infused oil, and hops on top, and beer. Smell never came through. Now I always scent with some FO, like oatmeal stout FO.

You can do searches for fluid hot process. You should use full water (38% in soapcalc), or use other liquids. Add yogurt at the end of cook.

You should try lard, it make soap really moisturizing.

Calculation looks right. I've only tried 0.5% citric before, let me know how the 2% goes.

Where do you live? I lived in Ottawa for 9 years, now I'm in Portland OR. I like your name eh.

I've bought the tallow shortening from Cash and Carry which is the same chain as Smart and Final. cmzaha, does yours say it's just tallow? Mine is tallow and soybean oil. I tried to find the % mix from the manufacturer, but no luck.

Do you do this instead of adding citric acid to your soap? Right now, I dissolve citric acid in water, then add to my oils before adding the lye. What is your method?