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Its not scrubby, its not exfoliating. The bar itself wears down to feel like a river rock, and the lather and skin feel isn't like anything else. Just makesome! Use cavity molds or you have to time the cutting juuuust right. Honestly, its one of the easiest recipes ever with super simple...

Meh. To me that recipe looks like a regular soap with the coconut upped and too little salt to make much of a difference.

^^^ THIS! SO MUCH THIS!! There is no reason ever to lie, or bring other products down when describing your own.

I have to say - I've made and used the emulsified sugar scrub from SCM's recipe, and I didn't care for it that much. I really do love a basic sugar scrub with fancy oils, sugar and EO's. It makes the bath slippery for hubby - but I'M WORTH IT!! :) Edit - with your supply list - Id use the...

I have said it before and Ill say it again - bathing with a salt bar is like playing in the waves and having bruddah Iz sing to you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oWtNtO5ELQw I find them awfully soothing, and nicely cleansing without stripping. Ill even use mine on my hair once in a while if...

All soap does is clean, and it will clean with a cleansing number of zero. Which is one reason why my well cured 100% OO castiles are my favorite for my face.

huh it seems more expensive than I remember - and my go-go SMR is out of stock - but their prices are a bit better than Brambleberry for sure. I wonder if there's a shortage for some reason?

I think what you are running up against is the fact that SLS isnt great for skin (see this post about SLS), and also this is primarily a forum about soaps made from lye - ie true soaps. That said, many here are interested in shampoo bars which DO use detergent (because lye soap isnt great for...

That is a thing of beauty!

Oh I love hemp oil in soap - is that enough to give it that nice green tint too? Try some sugar in your water before adding the lye next time for mo' bubbly. That is similar to one of my favorites - and funny enough this one lathers like a champ even without castor oil. I have a fellow soaper...

I think its people like this seller who risk creating customers who will never buy handmade soap again because its too harsh, or just not very good.

I use almost exclusively EO's - most FO's smell weird to me. I've learned to use the max safest usage, and to always use a good base note in the blend. IF I use citruses, you have to have a really good blend, and realize that it will morph. If you are using clay, soaking the clay in the EO...

No, adding the needed Oz or two or four of necessary oils doesn't hurt trace, just make sure the original batter that is short of oils doesn't go past emulsion. The time taken to split and add oils or whatever can bring trace on and you can get gloppy. The 4 things added were: Annatto...

Its been a while, but I know I got them at SMR and the suggestion there is "1-2 tsp ppo" so Im pretty sure I put 1 tsp in an 8 oz mason jar of olive oil, perhaps 2. I probably warm infused them in a crockpot and then kept in a cold dark place a few days until ready to use. For the different...

I think you would have better results infusing into oils and not water - that is my experience anyway for infusions. And I was going to suggest annatto. Here are some pics of a yellow I got with annatto infusion in olive oil: So you can get yellow instead of orange with annatto :)

See - I would be all proud of the crackle - and it goes so well with the name!! Its really lovely Carolyn.

We saved a ton switching from cheap inkjet printers to laser jet. Laserjet doesn't dry out if its not used, and you get so many more copies at much better quality. If we need color (twice a year) we go to kinkos or whatever.

Ohmigosh so pretty!!

That looks really nice! I love embeds - I never understand why people rebatch when embedding is so much fun and looks so neat.

I vote we start using "gummy bear stage" as a descriptor :mrgreen: