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Adding my bit here, if you have some yogurt in hand, doesn't matter what kind (unsweetened, unflavored), 1tsp/lb of oils can help keep soap batter fluid while mixing, & cure more quickly as well. It's the lactate acid it will become due to the lye that will do it. 🧼 🫧 Happy bubbles!

What @Savage Daughter has said is truer than she can imagine. Our "pets" can help us become better humans if we give them the chance. Sadly, few of us are up to the task. But at least there's quite many of us willing to love them more than enough. The sadness we feel when they die is only more...

@Sudds welcome back to the madness! 🧼🤩💜 The water's fine!

If this can happen w/ lard, can it happen w/ palm oil? Bcs it might've been why my batter was seeming to emulsify but still looked like it wasn't completely. And though temps in the daytime were in the low- to mid-80's, they dropped to mid-50's by 10p & lower later on. To say I slowed down BCS...

@srez Did you finally resolve your flaking/"ashy" issues w/ your soaps. I'm just curious bcs I get that with my lard/olive & lard/HO canola blends. Eta: I don't use goat anything in my soaps. Usually I don't use any milks at all. I use honey, salt, sometimes organic unrefined sugar, but my...

I just wanted to back up @AliOop to say that if you make something that goes on anyone else's skin, one needs to be very careful and telling them exactly what's in it. 1st, on your own skin, try things out locally b4 so you know if it'll give you a reaction, good or bad. 2nd, might want to do...

Same here.

I'll answer! If the produce includes fruits, I'll give up the dairy, bcs there's fruits out there that taste & have the texture of ice cream!! And I LOVE some of those produce, & my guts, thank you so much

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Even better are silpats, the cheap ones you can buy from online stores. You're not going to be baking at high temps w/ them so don't worry about their rating. And you can wash them over & over again. Rinse, dry, repeat. And you're good to go. I've been so sick over the last few months...

Just dropping in to add from my experience w/ my coffee soaps. I add some cocoa powder to my recipe to enhance the brown, and though I too truly dislike the smell, I use the dark roast Bustelo coffee I get from the Dollar Tree stores @ $1.25/lb. I brew it @ 1 Tbsp/cup of water & let it steep in...

What you've got is from the cocoa butter cream, and I get it every time I make my coffee soap & I add anything above 10% cocoa butter to them. I tell my son it's like the crema in the top of a really good coffee brew or just enough milk cream that it floats on top. In any case, they love it...

My son (here in the wilds of WI) made Mexican pork tamales day before yesterday so that's what I had for dinner. But in true Midwestern style, I had them with cream cheese because he absolutely refused to make a sauce for them. 😭 And I've been too ill to be up for making anything for food more...

When I get better I'll be on the lookout for a roaster because that sounds like a good idea!

I'm having my post-migraine comfort food: ramen w/ broccoli, heavy cream, and corn kernels. And 2nd cup of Tetley tea, also w/ some cream, no sugar this time.

Oh my dear, so sorry to see this. May the new year be better for your daughter. Love and prayers. 💜

Wow, LOVE all the ideas! Thank you for them, @Jorah, @TheGecko, @dibbles, @Zany_in_CO: I hadn't thought about getting a fridge/freezer to use as a giant cooler but it's a brillant idea! @lsg & @Mobjack Bay: I've used a cooler before to force gel because I like the look of the soaps with honey to...

This will probably be a silly question coming from someone who's been soaping for as long as I have but I'm in a bit of a crossroad. I badly need space, and it's because I'd been setting up to make soap. So I have EVERYTHING I need to make a pretty good batch of soaps. Yes, plural. This was at...

I'd like to add my 2 cents, if I may. I'm SO glad your Dx wasn't Lupus of ANY kind, but fibro is still a pretty upsetting Dx, just not possibly fatal. Whew! My 2 cents is that I WAS Dx'd w/ Systemic Lupus E. over 35 years ago and one of the lifestyle themes that have kept me alive is that I keep...