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Welcome to the October 2024 SMF Soap Challenge: Flannel and Knit! This month we will be creating soaps in the Buffalo plaid style OR that have a knit pattern. If members have other ideas for cozy fabrics represented in soap I would love to see them! SMF Challenge General Rules To enter, you...

How much was the sandalwood? Real sandalwood is very expensive. Years ago I bought “sandalwood” on eBay I think and it smelled like cheap aftershave. 🙄

I get so frustrated with orange EO, I feel like it always fades instantly during saponification. Even folded. I am not a believer in “anchoring” with kaolin clay, but I plan to do some experiments this winter. Brambleberry has some great fragrance oils but their essential oils are pricey. Try...

I feel seen… Re EO sources I like NDA and Jedwards - cheaper shipping than NDA and very good quality. I also have recently bought from Nature Packaged - the owner was at the soap convention in Connecticut in May. He buys directly from the farmers and his quality is very good. The main EOs I use...

Oh thanks. Now I get it.

To enter the September 2024 SMF Challenge, copy and paste these instructions and the entire list into a new post, adding your name and the next number at the bottom. Sign-up list: 1. Servant4Christ 2. Vicki C. 3.

I love this! Question - I don’t follow this photo requirement: “The photo can be of the soap in the mold or the uncut loaf or slab out of the mold. If you use dividers in a slab mold, take the photo before you add the dividers.” The dividers would be placed in the very beginning before any soap...

You had me at automagically 😍

I should have said I do have the office suite, including Excel, on my MacBook. Sheets is handy for me because being cloud-based I can check it from my phone, iPad or MacBook. But - I am going to look again at your spreadsheet. 👍

Oh, this is great! I’m looking forward to what you produce. I use google sheets for many things - tracking sales, maintaining a price list for all ingredients (by vendor per ounce), scaling recipes. @Grantxw8 I had downloaded an early version of your spreadsheet but it was still being refined -...

Thank you! Was hoping you’d respond. 😊 I’ll try each of those in small batches.

I have decided to jump on the sugar scrub train, so today I experimented with the soap shred method spelled out so nicely in @AliOop’s thread. I think I should have added more sugar, and maybe less stearic, mine came out super thick and gluey. My basic recipe: Soap shred 25% Water 13%...

Haha that’s perfect. Thank you. 👍

Well, that’s precisely my point - my scale measures to .5 grams, and (if I change units) to 0.01 ounces which is a smaller unit than 0.5 grams - it’s 0.28 grams. But really my point is that the relentless repeating of “grams are more accurate” makes me a little batty.

TLDR: still testing positive - trying to figure out when I can safely sell at markets. I am so much better, feel like a human again. Smell is still muted, which I don’t like, and I have a residual cough, but it’s not much at all. I would have had four markets this weekend. The guidance on when...

It’s funny, I hear my heartbeat all the time - I always thought everyone did and recently learned that isn’t the case! I’m on the mend - I think the Paxlovid helped a lot. Can’t smell very well which is really depressing, hopefully it will come back quickly.

The thought of sitting up for eight hours right now makes me weak. Hoping tomorrow will be a little better.

I hadn’t really been paying attention either. The new booster is not out yet but has been adapted for the new variants - I assume it will be advertised when it’s available, in the fall. Even though I have Covid now I’ll get it when I’m eligible. This is no joke. 😐 Paxlovid seems to be not...

Thanks all - I have been feeling progressively worse throughout the day so I think it’s the right call. No voice now. Head congestion. Very crabby to poor husband.

Ok - right after reading this I messaged my dr, and they just called back and called in a prescription for me. Metal taste here we come. I read a bunch of horror stories on Reddit - this is not a mild strain, according to anecdotal evidence.