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February for me too.

I chose the picture for my avatar from among many photos of beautiful sunrises taken from my balcony. I love sunrises and sunsets very much. The maths expression tells my age this year. It was my first son-in-law that hatched it.

My parcel arrived this morning so now I have NaOH and can make some soap. And the packaging is what I expect it to be.

This morning I received the parcel from a soapmaking supplier: some moulds, pH test strips and a small bottle of FO. The parcel did feel strangely light ... The primary reason for my order was I'd run out of NaOH. I also did not like the packaging of my former supplier so I made some...

If I can't make soap without NaOH I can prepare a recipe, and so I did. I now have a recipe with sheep tallow + HO sunflower oil + coconut oil + castor oil ready. A part of a soaping session completed.

What soapy thing have I done today? NONE! Grrr ... because I forgot I was running low of my NaOH after my last soaping session in the end of May. Early in July a heat wave struck and I haven't been able to do much all these hot days so I only keep to the basic necessity. And I've just obtained...

I repeat rendering as long as there is even a very thin layer of dirt on the bottom surface of the tallow cake, as seen in the pic above. I use more water with salt than the lady in the video does. When I consider my tallow really clean I dry it in the following manner. I remelt the cake and...

A thin layer of dirt scraped with a long knife

A thin layer of dirt on the lower surface of solidified sheep tallow.

High lard batter will give you plenty of time for any patterning and will take much of your time to make it come to trace.

Together with my second daughter we've been building a new house to live in (her family with five boys+daughter+son-in-law+I). It is a wooden prefabricated type constuction and the frame was erected in three days. I witnessed the very first steps and then the completion which in my country is...

I sold ten pieces of soap today to the farmer where I can occasionaly get sheep tallow. I was very much surprised to hear he wanted ten pieces when I was talking to his wife I was coming on a visit. He then explained all industrially made soap makes his skin itch, also leaving a very unpleasant...

Who would have thought you do, dear TheGecko :)

I found this link: Soapnuts/soapberries/washnuts

The oil was taken from a glass jar of pickled roasted red paprikas

The oil was taken from a glass jar of pickled roasted red paprikas

What straight lines? I see no straight lines or --- this is probably my poor English :) :) :)

Yesterday I made another batch: dual lye, beef tallow, annatto infused HO sunflower oil, castor oil. Poured into several individual moulds + made another try at lollipop swirl.

Just made a tiny little batch of CP soap to use oil I decanted from a glass jar with pickled roasted red paprikas. The oil was infused with the red from the paprikas and had a lovely intense red colour which I thought would be a shame to discard. So I decided to use it for soap although it...

The oil was taken from a glass jar of pickled roasted red paprikas