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Clarice, I'd love to have the pdf with the pictures, thank you so much!

I cut the loaf I made last week. I help teach soapmaking at my friend's sospery. This is Blueberry Lemon Verbena scented (from Elements Bath & Body) , it behaved quite well.

If it was opened and used then I'm sorry, I would *not* take it back. Why involve shipping at all? Refund her the cost of the soap only and be done with it. Definitely change your refund policies. This is one reason I have no desire to sell online.

Steve, PDFs aren't working files. I have an idea though. When I geek home in going to try to convert them.

So would you add it to the lye water as I do sodium lactate?

Bud Haffner's cutters are worth every penny. I am a junkie, I have two multi wire (wood and metal), the single and the slab splitter.

The issue with this is your getting surface temp only. I stir while using my infrared, you'll get a better reading.

Totally and completely agree with you.

Null No, she didn't, she posted it to sell fragrance oils. That's what she does. Sells soap supplies also. Her audience knows her well. That a beginner may stumbled on it had nothing to do with why she makes videos. This thread is just an excuse for officious comments, I really wish it would...

I agree, this is a rehash by people who haven't been around long. Soaping safety police....

Jen's videos have always drawn this kind of attention. She doesn't care.

Wonderful explanation on your blog, than you - and very cute soap! Love the stamp!

So if you were to make the 25-25-25-20-5 recipe mentioned earlier - you could also just go with 12.5% tallow, 37.5% lard, 25% high oleic sunflower, 20% coconut and 5% castor and get the same result, correct? Just thinking out loud, in case you can't find the GV Shortening. ETA interesting how...

Beeswax is wonderful in soap. It lends a humectant quality to the lather and yes, it will settle on the skin a bit, but if you soap hot enough, it fully dissolves in the other oils. I've used it a lot. I am also a beekeeper and well aware of how hard it is to work with and clean.

I found it. It is one of the six recipes you must make in the Master class: Recipe #6: Opaque Bar Soap from Self-Produced Lye Produce a bar of opaque soap using either cold or hot process saponification dependent upon the method of self-produced lye. Make lye solution from a natural...

I just went and looked and can't find this as a requirement anywhere - can you tell us which level it is?

Palm oil can also be drying for some people, I'm one of them - I prefer lard for that reason.

How large do you want your batch? If you are making a recipe with 48 ounces of oils, it would be 40% of 48 ounces, 25% of 48 ounces, etc.

Don't be sad. You and your friends are smart and right about lard. I also get my lard from local sources, mainly a friend up in Maine who raises his own. He takes wonderful care of them, they get to live good piggie lives before they're harvested for food, and the meat from them is delicious...

It's 'piggy' because they're rendering it at high heat. It's that simple. I won't beat a horse other than to say to each their own. I enjoy lard and tallow in my soap, my customers do, and I know many, many soapers who will say the same. We can get lard, we can render it if we're fortunate...