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I had a somewhat similar experience... My first arts and crafts fair I attended, I was selling knives that I had made. I had each one placed on a flat piece of wood I had processed. Anyway, there was tons of traffic and it was getting hard to keep up. All of a sudden some little girl runs over...

I have been wanting to add honey or royal jelly as they contain gluconic acid. Which should produce Sodium Gluconate when you combine it with NaOH. Unfortunately, I've not been able to figure out how much gluconic acid is contained in each. And I have a feeling it may not be enough... It...

If you look at the ingredients of body glide, it seems pretty simple. Caprylic/Capric Triglyceride (fractionated coconut oil), Cetearyl Alcohol, Ozokerite Wax, Glyceryl Behenate, Stearyl Alcohol, Allantoin, Tocopherol (Vitamin E) The only one of those ingredients that I don't own and haven't...

This is a pretty old thread. I will say that I add Sodium Lactate, Yogurt, and a good quantity of some form of sugar (for lather) to all my HP batches. Sodium Lactate and yogurt definitely do different things. Both help to make the soap batter more fluid. Yogurt is more obvious in that regard...

I was curious to read more about how you make soap but I have not been able to find this thread.

Is the stuff from Smithfield partially hydrogenated? Seems like most of the lard at the store has some hydrogenated lard added to the rest in order to make it a bit more firm.

I really like Nurture's OMH. I've not tried any others though. Oob it also had an almondy scent but seemed to go away after it was in soap. I’ll add that it’s not super strong. It’s more of a subtle thing which is what I was going for. Not sure how strong others are...

I must say, after ~35 batches of tweaking, I've ended up on a recipe that is very similar to Obsidians as well as the one Susie mentioned in one of the links DeeAnna posted. I keep seeing a similar combination to that recipe mentioned fairly frequently. Must be a reason for it. Lately, I've...

Good luck! I did mine a couple weeks ago. Did 50% goats milk with oatmeal flour and honey as well. Added the honey and goats milk after the cook once it cooled below 180F or so. I didn't add any color and this is how it looked. I think the color was from the honey, but I'm not entirely sure!

It's been down for a few days. I know the developer has been getting ready to release a new version of it. Maybe he's working on that. But it seems odd that he hasnt given any updates. I'm one of the weirdos that doesn't like my stuff on the "cloud". I've been using soapmaker 3 for that exact...

So I've always had some interest in handmade soap. I'd get my parents to buy it for me in gift shops on vacations when I was younger. My mom has been going through a folder of my old stuff and she found some stuff I had printed out. Date at the bottom is 9/2/1999. I was 10. Thought that was...

Oof. Sounds like not many options there. Maybe I'll just order a few sample bottles of things and see if I can find something I like. It's funny you mention Kentish Rain. I had completely forgotten but that was the first fragrance I purchased in a small bottle from BB. I do like it a lot and...

Hey all. I got a whiff of "First Rain" from WSP and I really really like it. I currently don't have any water/rain scents. I would like to pick up a few but trying to avoid the ones that are really strong in the floral department. Anyone have any suggestions? Probably going to be making an order...

HP soap embeds, round 2. I guess I'm looking for something a little simpler but still with some interest. I focused on swirls early on and have found that depending on the swirls, I feel like it can take away from the soap. I'll still do some swirls but it will be simpler like I did with the...

Well, I made some soap. It is mostly a failure but I'd say it was also a success. My main interest was trying some embeds in my hot process soap. I was going for kinda a polka dot look with a white bar. And somehow 2 reds ended up right next to each other even though I tried to make sure that...

https://nurturesoap.com/ I would recommend them as well. I've been happy with everything I've purchased there. They give you a picture of the discoloration in CP soap for each fragrance. They also give you notes on acceleration (not that it matters to me since I mostly do HP). All the relevant...

Made a batch today. Lavender and Sage fragrance. Hot processed.

Liquid is included in category 9 with bar soap. You can see it listed here: https://nurturesoap.com/blogs/soap-making-rules/how-to-read-ifra-rates-for-fragrance-oils

Made a few batches over the last week. Decided to make it a little easier on myself and do solid colors on these. I'm getting everything ready to try some embeds to add a little character to my single color bars. OMH (no color added), Juicy Apricot, Rosemary Mint All hot processed

Sounds like it's time to experiment! :D