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Not just small businesses are targeted by these scammers. As a bookkeeper I've had to stop more than one sales rep from processing orders like this. I've seen the bogus, prepaid freight forwarder scam more than once. The other one that I see a lot is the overpay by check and ask for Western...

I don't have a definitive answer but keep in mind that the chemical reactions between the lye and other ingredients change the game. The lye kind of pickles everything organic in the mix.

I've just made a couple batches of goat milk and honey soaps. 1 tablespoon per pound of oils is about as much as you want to add. You will not get a detectable honey smell without adding a fragrance. All olive oil means a long cure. If you do choose to use a FO go to the heavy end of the...

Nicely done. You are correct that the metal hinge has too much slop. After using mine a couple times I contemplated rebuilding it with a hinge like you made because it was just too loose and the slop was noticeable in the cuts. For now I used my giant pliers and pressed the metal hinge tighter...

That's the way I do it. It works well for me.

Well, I made a 350g batch yesterday afternoon. For fragrance I used WSP's Tea Rose fo at 1%. The plan was to make a bar and package it in a 2.5 oz tin, the size and shape of an Altoids mint tin. I bought some unmarked tins from Amazon to experiment with. 350g filled 5 tins. I had assumed that it...

So, my girlfriend found a simple recipe for lotion bars and suggested I make a batch. It's a pretty simple recipe; equal parts Coconut oil, Shea butter & beeswax and add fragrance to taste. For those of you who have made these things, I have a couple questions. First, if I make these in one...

Maybe I missed it but what was the FO? I had a batch react badly with a FO I bought from Hobby Lobby which was most likely meant for MP soap and not CP. The bars were gooey three days after pouring when I finally took them out of the molds anyway. I got that silicone rash and odd, lumpy texture...

Will the drying, over-cleansing of the CO mellow some with curing? I am finding with some of my soaps that they are more drying than I like. However, these are batches that have only cured for few weeks.

I see a few places that sell pumice powder. Has anyone tried that in their soap? That should be good for a mechanic's soap. No idea how it would be on the face.

Cut four more loaves of soap from the weekend. First we have the coffee and milk. The coffee soap is my 3rd batch of coffee soap and the 3rd coffee fo. This time I used Coffee Beans fo from WSP. Liking it so far but of course time will tell. The milk soap is goat milk, oats and honey, straight...

Lot of soap this weekend, well lots of soap for me at least. Poured these Friday. On the left is scented with dragon fruit and pear from WSP, colored with micas from Nurture. On the right is WSP ginger lime with a mica/blush clay layered swirl. Liked these so much I did a second loaf of each...

Thanks for the replies. Had good results from my first goat milk, honey and oatmeal soap yesterday. It's still a bit soft so it's going to stay in the mold at least until tomorrow evening. I had no issues with the honey. I did as suggested and deducted water from the lye to thin the honey and...

I want to make a honey & oatmeal soap. I see some videos and recipes where honey is added to the oils before the lye and some with the honey mixed into the water first. How do you add your honey? Have you tried it both ways? I understand some of the issues with lye and honey generating heat...

I looked through the mica and other soap colorants on Amazon last night. The supplier looked a bit flaky so I ended up ordering from Nurture instead. They shipped today and my micas will be here in plenty of time for weekend soaping. You have to be really careful with some of the products on...

Thanks for sharing. These kind of experiments are helpful for many of us soap geeks. It can be frustrating how long it takes to see results of this kind of testing for soaping. I'm not surprised the avocado is still gelatinous. From what I've been reading about avocado, it contains a large...

Made a batch of soap with 5% beeswax today. I picked up a couple bags of yellow beeswax pastilles at Hobby Lobby a few weeks ago just on a whim because they were on sale. Today I decided I would see how they worked in a batch of cp. I made a Beeswax, Bentonite & Bay rum bar. 900g of oils...

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SInce there have been a couple people asking for more info on the cutter I made, I thought it might be helpful to post more info. So, here goes. Hope you can make sense of it. I made mine rather large. Since I was cutting strips off of a 24" wide piece of plywood, I made the thing 24" long...

I'm the one who made the cutter and posted the pic last week. I'll post a few pictures and give a bit more info in a separate thread.