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Thanks for the help everyone! :)

When curing your soap, how long do you leave your cut bars exposed to air after cutting? Do you lay them out flat, set up on end like dominos, lay on a cloth or paper towel? Thanks!

Hi Earline, Yes, the wax color is skin safe. The reason there are dark spots of green is that I tried to add more to darken up the color right before the poor, but the small amount I melted into some almond oil instantly set when I poured it in the mix and the mixer just ground it up and...

You might have heard that Texas got a little rain over the weekend. Thankfully we were not in the red zone, only getting 9", but it still made for a wet and lazy weekend. Being bored, I raided the house looking for things to make some more batches of soap out of. I played around with SoapCalc...

Thanks Everyone Thank you all for your replies. Definitely soda ash - rinsed right off. Used it in the bath last night and proved to be a great bar of soap. Not very bubbly but cleaned well and didn't dry my skin out, so I'm pretty happy with it. :) And I love the Tea Tree Oil smell.

So I made my first ever batch of soap two weeks ago just as an experiment to see if I could make something useful out of used frying oil. The batch was 80% used peanut oil and 20% coconut oil, cold process. Unfortunately our hand mixer had died the week before so I hand stirred the batch for...

Thanks Thanks for the links! Looks like most people used the same formula as I did: 80/20 with coconut oil. If it doesn't turn out I'm not out anything and it was a fun first batch to learn from. I'd like to make some bar soap for the bath next. Any suggestions on an easy recipe for a...

Howdy from Texas! The wife and I were looking to do something with our used cooking oil, so on a whim I looked up soap making and found this forum. Made our first batch today using 80% used peanut oil and 20% coconut oil. Hopefully it will turn out. Any suggestions on deodorizing the...