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I love reading your posts DeeAnna...even if I don't understand half if it. I want to be you when I grow up!

I see a deer fox & seal in that order. Too cool!

comrade

I love DST. The sun goes down so early during standard time, and my energy level goes down with it. I seem to get so much more done during DST. Thanks for the history lesson Dennis!

As is, it has a cleansing # of 20. That is too high for me. I don't go higher that 20% on CO. Add the difference to your OO. Also 10% is too high a sf to sell, too much free oil that can go rancid. Before you sell please, do your research, test your product over a year's time to see how it...

fairies

hungry!

Okay, I need to follow this experiment too.

Wow! Look at all those brown bottles! I'm green with envy!

accident

I was one of those "less than informed" people when I started posting. I had made a couple of batches which turned out to be lye heavy. However, I had no idea. I did feel offended by one of the relies. But it made me stop and think that maybe the books and videos I had watched were not the...

You can always stay in the bathroom and tell them you are trying out every single bar of the 23 she gave you. :p

In my humble opinion unless it's a plant that I can pull from the ground and bathe with...it's not natural. Think about it, even the oils we use have been processed in some way. Soap is not a natural product...it is a handcrafted product and that is quite a difference.

I usually infuse my oil with the chamomile, but a tea will work just fine. Just make sure that you freeze it, so that it doesn't burn. I have added the flower petals to the soap and they looked lovely in it. Lard, coconut and olive sound fine. Don't forget to run the recipe through soapcalc...

glow

Congrats! I just used hemp oil for the first time and the soap is curing, so I can't give much info. However, I did read that because of the short shelf life it could be put in the freezer and will last for 6 months. My main oils are olive, sweet almond, coconut, sunflower (high Oleic)...

claws

Thanks for the suggestions! I have more citric acid on order and will try again. Good to know it's not the humidity...whew!

tomatoes

So I tried my hand at bath bombs for the 1st time. I got the right texture and formed them using a meatball maker. They were a thing of beauty, perfectly round, hard and not a crack in sight. So I put them in the dining room and started on my soap. Checked back with them a 1/2 hr. later and...