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You may want to buy some "regular" (meaning not special) goat milk from the grocery store and make a batch to try it out. What EOs does she want you to use?

I personally do not do the frozen milk, b/c the one time I tried it I had bits of undissolved lye. Lots of people do it successfully, I just don't have the patience for the 15 minutes of adding lye. Some people like to put a pitcher of cold milk in an ice bath and add the lye to the cold but...

I am fond of the milk-in-oil method. Take the amount of water your recipe requires. Say 20 oz. Dissolve your lye in 10 oz water. Let the lye water cool to room temp. Heat your oils to 100-125. This depends on what oils you are using. For example, palm has a higher melt temp than lard. Or if you...

You read the ingredients on the back of the lotion bottle and judge...harshly. (Seriously, Bath and Body Shop lotion is garbage).

I'm gonna work "kitten love" into a sentence this week.

I like to give a gift baggie at work, I have about 30 co-workers. So I try to give at least half "good" (pretty) and half "bad" (ugly or the scent morphed or faded, etc). I actually have made soap in over a year (things kept getting in the way) so last year I was REALLY scraping the bottom of...

Horrible? No. Weird....yeah, I think so lol. What do you do with all of your uglies?

I personally would drop the coconut down to 20% or less. You could make up the difference in sunflower or olive. But I see no real problem with making it as is. It will thicken up fast, so maybe don't plan on elaborate swirls!

Please don't be disheartened. Making soap is very fun and satisfying! Let us know what you are looking for and we can help you put together a recipe that works for you.

I really struggle with swirls. BUT I have a lot of clear M&P. So I've decided no swirls...I'm going to pour at emulsion for a nice, flat, smooth top, then I'm going to mix micas with M&P and do a fun drizzle. I'm going to do a mint chocolate soap and drizzle the top with pale green mica and with...

Ugh, I'm just now starting! Soooo behind! So what are you all doing/making for Christmas gives? Pics if available?

EO prices have just skyrocketed in the last 20 years.

Could be a mixing issue? Really make sure you are getting top, middle, bottom, the "corners" etc. I think you might be used to the way your smaller batch looks/feels/behaves and not used to the way the larger batch looks/feels/behaves.

I haven't done a comparison of this recipe with sunflower vs olive. I have replaced the olive oil in my standard lard recipe with half sunflower and half rice bran, or sometimes 10% of each. I read somewhere that sunflower and olive have a synergistic reaction in soap and produce more bubbles...

I really like this recipe: Castor 5 Coconut 20 Shea butter 50 Sunflower 25 2% superfat. It hardens up pretty fast so no super fancy swirls. And I think it needs a good 3 months of cure. But I really like it!

This is a great idea! Question - why food grade?

What kinds of quantities are you looking for? If you are buying large quantities, Soaper's Choice is a good way to go. But if you just want a little bit to try: 1) Healthfood stores - they often carry small quantities of things like shea butter, cocoa butter and beeswax. 2) Local soap and candle...

Those are so neat! The little croissants look delicious! Looking at the last pic with the little toast slices - top left, what's on that one? Is that banana slices or boiled egg slices or something else? Bottom left - what is the pink and white on the toast?

Honey soap is pretty awesome as is. You may want to check out hot process and use a spice FO like clove or cinnamon.

Where did you get this recipe? To be honest...I think it's a bad one. Did you run the recipe through a lye calculator? I did and here's what I got. Did you leave out an oil? If not, then you used way too much lye and your soap is unsafe. I have never used Sea Moss gel...I googled it and...