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So, since Zany's original thread has been closed, I thought about starting this one to discuss what some of us have done to her recipe. :eek: This can include non-bastille's where you used the faux seawater. I think it might be fun and also instructive to see how we have picked apart or even...

Oh Misschief, those are so pretty!! I'm glad you'll be able to use them. Trust your mother!! If she says it's milder than what she's been using, believe her! Because the same thing is true of me -- the same day I unmould my soap or maybe 6 days later, I'm washing MY face with it and it IS...

Oh dear! Will the oil reabsorb on these, as with soap? The non-smashed ones look nice and definitely usable. ;)

Splendid work on this pattern! It is really gorgeous. :thumbs:

@Rune "Petra (Smokey and creamy, a sweet vanilla combination of black pepper and tobacco flower with middle notes of tonka bean, red apple and fig on a base of dark chocolate and patchouli)." ~ just WOW. Wish we could scratch and sniff our screens sometimes!! :D This description has me...

Oh, dear .... beyond words .... :beatinghead:

Hi Chris, HO stands for High Oleic. Dean is saying to choose one of the HO oils, per your preference, from among olive, HO sunflower, HO safflower, almond, avocado, and apricot. :) Note that sunflower and safflower come in regular and HO versions.

Without GETTING oleic gel, in other words. :)

You inadvertently answered your own question. :) Oleic gel = slime (or snot). Oh --> wo = w/o = without.

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I'm not in the habit of talking out my rear end, and I know quite a lot about GMO. What I said about Mexico may have used a slight hyperbole ("almost ruined"), but it was based on a documentary I watched a few years ago. Good luck to you.

Irish and Clarice -- Heh heh you guys are adorable! ! ;) Silly people now know ADSH

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Allergy relief sounds like a medical claim, which would be best avoided, but you might could call them 'Clear Your Head" which is harder to pin down as a claim, since people speak of clearing their head in many subjective contexts.

My soaps routinely have 6 to 7 oils, or 5 when I feel lazy. Many of us soap "poly oil". All the separate weighing can indeed be a pain, though. ;)

A few weeks, if you mean about 3 weeks, is only halfway into the cure. It should be a lot firmer in another 3 - 5 weeks. If it is still soft-ish at the 6 week mark, keep curing it, since some oils do take a little longer if in high proportion to the recipe. So glad the smell has gone away for...

Splendid :) Love your daddy soap, too. ;)

In addition to all the wonderful suggestions above, and especially if you are concerned about random FO mixtures, you could use the "salting-out" method which disaggregates the soap from most everything else that was in it. It's an interesting-looking process which is on my soaping bucket list...

I've been starting to suspect my White Kaolin Clay regarding some recent softness issues I've been experiencing. Soaps with clays may take longer to unmould (and longer to cure, as well), but that's just my theory at this point. It's not an excessive softness -- the soap isn't mush or anything...