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OK ... just wanted to see if you were adding the EO before the cook. I talked with someone this summer who thought it was strange that I added them AFTER the cook. I mix my EOs with my superfat oil(s) and it's the last thing that goes in. After my bars are cut, I set them out to 'dry' on wire...

I've used EOs exclusively in my HP soaps since I started soaping 10 yrs ago. (I only started using some FOs this fall because there's just some scents you can't get with the EOs.) When do you add the EO? How do you store your soap? I use .5 oz PPO on average, with some EOs needing more, and...

I hate working with that glumpy mess, so I just make a really strong oat milk, dissolve my lye in half the water I'll need, then just after adding the lye water to the oils as normal, I add the oat milk (the other half of the water content) and continue as normal. Oh - and I never wash my oats...

Ditto on the Litsea. It sticks and sticks and when I use it in blends with NO citrus at all people always say they smell lemon. :) The reason you may like the smell of cassia better is that, in the U.S., our 'cinnamon' is actually cassia, so you might be more familiar with that scent. Not all...

Absolutely. Using a soap with those type of ingredients would be relatively useless, as it just gets rinsed off. They would have to be in a cream. Even then, if you're targeting age spots, you'd only want to cover the actual spots. Think about it ... if it's meant to lighten skin, the product...

Fruit (as in gum ... never did like that one much)

Thank you so much for sharing your labor of love! It brought tears to my eyes. My granddaughter Nevaeh Destiny (her name was chosen months before) was unexpectedly stillborn in Sept '17 ... a scant 3 months after loosing a DIL to a brain aneurysm. Life goes on, wounds heal, but they DO take a...

Journey

lol ... how did I miss this thread? You can lead a horse to water ...

Ouch!

It'll be interesting to see if anyone here can help you, as we pretty much do everything with sodium/potassium hydroxide and digital scales, too! :) but I'm not quite sure what you need help with considering it seems like you've done your research and pretty well 'know' what you're doing. I...

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Joyful

Mexican

I need to place an order from Nurture and noticed they have Dragon's Blood FO. Can anyone tell me how their's compares to Rustic Escentuals (which I like) and/or Elements (which I don't)? Thanks!

Attitude ... Prissy

lol - that is SO true! If you want to take the time to re-figure your percentages though, Dawni, here's where I go: https://www.calculatorsoup.com/calculators/math/ratios.php It doesn't take long and at all and will save SO much time when you go to up your batch. :)

I was wondering why rust would form from a no-water product. I wanted to package some in tins also but was going to wrap them lightly in glassine paper first. Keeping the bar from contact with the tin should keep rust from forming then.

Godmother

Personally, I like how tallow makes my soap feel more than lard. Maybe it's just me, but between the two, lard seems to make a slightly softer bar? But oh yeah - I love my tallow soaps! As for smelling it in the soap, I don't think I can with either one, but I do hot process, so not sure if that...