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Thank you. That's good to know. How much calcium carbonate would you add? 1 teasp. ppo? More?

Could you just add some calcium carbonate?

Yes, let's see pictures of the cut soaps! You have used a lovely shade of red. What did you use and where did you get it? Thank you for a very informative video.

I bought a pet-feeding mat in the pound store and used that. It is made of strong plastic and can be washed easily and re-used. Make sure you are using the non-painted side.

From what I saw in Google, lilies are poisonous when ingested. Do you think it matters when they are used to colour soap? I had a look at plants which are irritant to the skin and I have not found anything about lilies in that category.

I am infusing some lily stamens in olive oil with the intention of using it to colour soap. Has anyone ever done that? What colour came out and did it fade? Regardless of the answers, I will try it and keep you posted on the results, if you want.

I agree with you about the recipe. It's very good. I tried it with black cocoa butter and my towel was full of dark brown stains afterwards. The only way it can be used is if you wash with soap afterwards. I will try it again but with "normal" cocoa butter instead.

I have tried putting M&P embeds on the top of the soap and then put the soap in the oven (CPOP). It was fine. The embeds did not melt.

For water, I use the big (5L) bottles of mineral water from supermarkets.

Thank you all for your kind words. Maybe I'll enter the competition next time and be less critical. As for the second soap, I did the same hanger movements as in the first one. Nothing special really. I don't know why it looks so different - probably a thicker trace.

I would be interested but bear in mind that we, in the UK, have to pay import duties as well - plus £8 for the Royal Mail to open the parcel! Unless the parcel is marked as a gift of course.

They are not as they should be. I still like them though...

I wasn't going to participate in this month's challenge because I have more soaps that I can cope with but then, I decided to have a go... I was going to put my name down but I had two goes and they are both failures so I thought I'd better stop. I attach pictures of my failures: The...

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I live in the UK too, in Surrey (Greater London). You can find a lot of Brambleberry moulds in Holland at : http://www.youwish.nl/ The postage is not cheap but at least you don't have to pay any import duties!

I live in the UK and it seems impossible to find ROE. What they sell here is called rosemary seed extract (antioxidant). INCI: Helianthus annuus (Sunflower) Seed Oil, Rosemarinus officinalis (Rosemary) Leaf Extract. Is this the same stuff as ROE? Can it be used in soaps?

The M&P decorations stayed the same and kept their shape so I suppose that next time I can CPOP with them on! Although the heat from the saponification might be higher than this one. The only way to know is to try...

Oh DeeAnna! What a mine of information you are and what would I do without you? I had a soap that fitted your description - powdery and crumbly. I reckon that it had not gelled properly. I normally CPOP all my soaps but this one was different. I had made some buttons out of M&P and used...

Me too!