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Hi everyone, I have tried twice to make a Christmas soap. I purchased the really red (water soluble) from Windy point in Calgary/Canada. I think maybe this is different to the really red from Nurture soap. At first the soap colour is a beautiful Christmas red but then after a few hours it...

Also I realize this was a really old post and now realize that we aren't meant to comment on a post so old. I now know this :)

I for sure will start with small batches. I have no idea what I'm doing but the info you sent helps - thank you. I'm also going to keep reading and maybe take out a few books from the library too!

Thank you so much for the help and info. I'm a little apprehensive about ever attempting this. It all looks difficult but I want to read and learn and maybe take a class although I cant find much in the area I live in Thank you again :)

Hi everyone, I'm wanting to try make some lotion so am looking up old posts. I'm thinking it can't be more difficult I have clicked on the 'swiftcraftymonkey' blog address but it's saying you have to be invited to get onto the page. Any help from anyone who has read on there would be much...

Oh okay - I had no idea. Thanks for sharing how you did this!

Oh wow - thanks for this explanation. Such patience you have! Maybe one day when I'm up to the challenge I will give it a try.

These are beautiful - did you use the pour through method? Also do you mind me asking if this isn't a rimmed soap, how did you achieve the beautiful texture on the outside?

Wow! Just wow. I am from South Africa and you did the landscape and animals 100% justice. I've tried soap carving and adding in soap dough and it isn't easy at all! Getting corners sharp and unrounded was a challenge. Do you have any tips? Again - I am amazed at your works of art!

Oh thanks for this - I will take a look. I appreciate it!

Hi everyone, I attempted my first spin swirl yesterday. My soap batter stayed nice and fluid and I'm wondering if maybe too fluid as my colours seem to have blended together too much. I don't have a pic yet to post as I'm at work. Does anyone have any tips to get nice bright and pretty...

On thing I want to add that has confused me so much... this recipe I posted at the top of this page is obvioulsy soft as I'm asking about it. But last week I made soap with 10%Canola, 7% castor, 51% olive, 25% coconut oil and 7% soy bean oil. % of oils was 30 %. It was 31:69...

So interesting and helpful. I keep changing my recipe to try to get it harder. Then it's too hard and traces to fast so I do a new recipe and make up one that has more soft oils. Then it's too soft. I feel like I have 20 recipes I keep trying but it's confusing. I do use a lot of colour. But...

Thanks for the reply. I meant Celsius but I will try a little cooler. I don't think it's olive oil pomace as it just says light olive oil. maybe it even is. I will try reducing the castor to 5%. And less blending for sure. I used peppermint essential oil for this batch. I'm wondering if that...

Hi all, I have a question regarding some soap I made that is still soft after a few days. The last 3 batches have been soft. I used a new slab mould this time. I haven't had this until I started using more than 30% olive oil My recipe generally lately has been (so I can have time to do...

Okay. Good to know. I have wrapped it as I usually do! Thank you!

Hi everyone, I just made cold processed soap. I soaped cool and almost at room temperature. I probably should have posted this sooner but I hope to still gel my soap so the colours will pop but am not sure if I should still gel my soap as I usually do with a melt and pour embed in it. The...

This is helpful. I was wondering why my soap is brown even with TD. I thought the kaolin clay made it that colour but now I'm realizing it's probably the honey! I never knew I could add it this way so thank you! Such helpful iinfo. I've made 9 batches of soap but am still so new to this and...

Oh I really thought I had replied. Thanks for wanting to help. I'm using just regular olive oil but not pomice. I appreciate the link. I'll go read up more because this part of soap making has been pretty frustrating because my recipe is high percentage of olive which I find isn't as nice and...

Yes I will try this or add to the lye water. So far I have a hard time with the soap not tracing too fast so I don't know if I'll manage to blend it well if I add it at trace. Never thought of mixing a little water with it. Thanks.