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Thank you! I do most of the canning by myself. A couple times a year I have someone that wants to learn how to can but that usually slows me down because we're talking. The first picture was accomplished in a single day. The beans & cucumbers were picked pre-dawn and in the canners as the...

I do "a bit" of canning .... okay ... a do a Lot of canning. We raise the vast majority of our food ourselves (all our meat except fish), 90% of our vegetables and all our fruit except citrus. And I can everything that we don't eat fresh. At least 50% of the meat is canned. I use to freeze...

I finally got the consistency I was after ... and it hasn't thickened up over night (it gets pretty cold in here when the wood stove dies down at night) It appears to be my dilution for this recipe of dual lye, 2:1: glycerin:water:lye, and high oleics & lineolics is 1.74:1 (water:paste)...

This is true. How much the milk will increase your superfat depends on the milk you use. Milk fat (butterfat) content can vary breed to breed, and within the same animal is dependent on where they are in their lactation & what they are eating. Primrose has her own goats. She knows they have a...

I started with 0.31:1 dilution increased twice (0.15:1 of original weight each time) bringing the dilution up to 0.62:1. By this time it was 2:00 AM and I went to bed. This morning it was thick as sorghum molasses. I diluted another 0.31:1 (original weight). I like the viscosity of it now...

I love using left over yarn for projects. I just finished a pair of (knitted) socks using left over yarn for my daughter for Christmas and I'm finishing up another pair for myself.

There are a lot of different ways to utilize milk in your soap recipe. To answer your first question No. You do not include it as part of your oils. Milk is used as part or as all of the liquid in your lye solution for some or all of the water. Have you made soap before? If not, I highly...

Made my first Cold Process Liquid Soap ... after 19 years of soaping, it's about time!

Do you have a specific question, Spice? I've been making only (Jersey) milk soaps for 17 years.

To be clear, gloopygloop, my only objection to your post & what I (and I believe others) were trying to point out, is what I have bolded: Carry on! :mrgreen:

I used my kitchen pots (except for the dilution with the EDTA & polysorbate80) ... it's only soap, right? Think about it .... you are going to be washing your dishes with this soap ... :mrgreen:

That describes how I was feeling! Oleic is 44%, but I used regular Safflower so Linoleic is at 15% also. My skin loves linoleic in bar soap. I've started dilution with 1 part paste to .31 part water (with SL, EDTA & Poly 80). I put it in a half gallon canning jar, mashed the paste a bit...

I haven't been this excited about making soap in well over a decade! I've been reading posts here and on the FB group CPLS, pouring over files, recipes and watching videos for 3 weeks. I'm not one to just grab someone else's recipe and go with it (what fun is there in that?) My recipe: I...

It is the case though, gloopygloop .... CP soap, especially if it has gone through the gel stage, is just as safe to use as HP soap. CP soap that has had gel ******** by placing the mold in a cold area to prevent gel will take a couple days to reach full saponification and be safe to use. HP...

Biarine, I love your choice of colors and the stitch pattern, especially on the lower section!

Well, I'm a milk soaper sooooo .... Absolutely! I've used many things I've made from our Jersey milk as Full replacement in my lye solution, including soured buttermilk. (including kefir, failed yogurt, and whey). I don't mix the lye into my frozen, chunked up milk product slowly, rather I...

:shock: I'm an Okie by birth, but lived in Davenport from '69-'89 (graduated from Dav't Central) Love, Love, Love this!!! I will be rich in lard soon ... 2 Berkshire hogs coming back from the processor soon and every available pot will be rendering. We'll have to wait until it warms up a...

Where are you buying Tetrasodium EDTA? eta: Found that Jenny Welch has some at LotionCrafter ...

Wonderful tutorial, IrishLass. Since I'm venturing into LS this month, I'll be able to use quite a bit of the information in this thread! Thank you IL and all the contributors who asked questions!!

This question is right on time for me, Kevin, Thank You! I'm just venturing in to LS (some time this month) and want to use linoleic in the same amount (or higher) as my CP soap (approximately 17% of the fatty acid profile) and was wondering the same thing.