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I'll have to try that next time!

:eek::eek::eek: <-- my face when I read this post. It never occurred to me that critters would eat soap. My dogs will eat anything & they've barely sniffed the stuff. I have some oatmeal, coconut milk, & honey soap for my mom curing right now. Perhaps I should hide it somewhere! Another thing...

My husband builds semi-truck transmissions for a living, and regularly comes home with grubby hands. Yes, he washes before leaving work, but the cheap work soap doesn't do a great job. I make a very nice salt bar with 100% coconut oil, 20% SF, and varying percentages of fine sea salt. It takes...

I want to soap at room temp, but impatience gets me every time. So far, the best I can usually manage is to use the heat transfer method. I need to try masterbatching my lye & see if that works for me.

The only ones I don't care much for as food scents, especially now that I'm a diabetic and can't just go get some apple pie. :mad: That said, I still love coffee & black raspberry vanilla, so... :smallshrug: I especially love sandalwood, woodsy, spicy, herbals, florals, and citrus.

Nurture has a gorgeous Dragon's Blood that could be called a sandalwood, but it has pthalates. I don't care for that, so I bought some DB from NG. It's a bit lacking, so next I'm going to try Dragon Moon from NS. NG has a gorgeous coffee FO that I absolutely adore. I used a raw cocoa butter...

I've been soaping since last September and have only handed out soap to family so far, but they've had all kinds of questions. My mother is a chemical engineer so I have to be able to answer questions no "normal" customer would consider. Then my aunt is an artist with experience in almost every...

Ophelia's Soapery is my hands down fav. No chatter, good view of the pour, always ends with a good cut & cleaned up bars. So satisfying! But I love Kenny of Royal Apple Berry too because she's so real, & Royalty when I'm in the mood to handle the goofy. (I have 3 kids, 2 dogs, a goofball...

Just fyi, I'm probably going to steal at least half of these names. :D

I've been thinking of trying to masterbatch my lye to make life easier, so thanks for all the info! I'd been wondering how long it could sit too.

For the last week & a half I've been nursing a badly sprained knee and I'm so over it. I'm bored and restless and annoyed with everything, but can barely hobble around. My double-jointedness probably saved me from breaking something when I fell down all the bloody stairs, but now my knee is...

I've been having a heck of a time with patience, so sometimes I cut my soaps too early... So my bevels aren't as nice as they could be, but I am able to squash my scraps into a ball. I then use the ball as a tester, which my family seems to enjoy. (I'm fortunate to have a very supportive...

I find it interesting and puzzling that so many have to wait a year for a Castile to be nice. I used Zany's recipe w/ a bit of lavendin EO & kaolin & had a nice, mild soap after 2-3 months. I've been using it on my face even, and it's been the best face wash I've ever used. I checked my notes...

Oh goodness, I regularly have that problem, ever since my 3rd pregnancy. Things that work for me are: Compression: Some people use compression stockings/socks, but I prefer massage or sticking a foot under a leg while sitting on the sofa. Elevation: Lie around with your feet up! Oh noes, you...

That's good to know! I haven't used her recipes yet, but if I use recipes that aren't given in percentages, I first break them down to understand the exact formula.

Just a fun little fyi... No past tense is needed on this, and one need not reference history when it comes to Native Americans and washing hair with botanicals. We're still here, and we still do. :D Not all the time, unfortunately, and not all of us... Too many of my relatives have been so...

My son (16) adores Dragon's Blood and anything with sandalwood and/or patchouli. But he was also tickled when an EO blend went into salt bars and came out smelling like licorice. My husband isn't picky, but he also likes Dragon's Blood and sandalwood, and the licorice salt bars. I just got a...

I watched Future Primitive vids on YouTube after the mention here, too... And I played with SoapCalc while contemplating future soaps and looking through my soap books... And then I lost all my willpower and washed my face with my castile even though it's only a month old. (I think castile...

I'm amused and horrified. I have a teenage boy, 2 pre-teen girls, 2 dogs, a husband who works an assembly line, and a very sensitive nose. Nope nope nope!!

They are pure love and joy. I'm only kinda kidding... A snickerdoodle is somewhat like a sugar cookie, except the dough is less sweet and the whole thing is rolled in a blend of cinnamon & sugar before baking. I prefer them warm and soft with a bit of a crisp edge. Funnel cakes are a kind of...