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Oil does make a good weedkiller where you dont want stuff growing...dumped a bottle of rancid veggie oil out and hey no weeds there...or grass....or life...

AH-that's another good point, she's not kidding about mixing the liquids together! I didn't once and it just didn't want to work right, although since it was all for me I didn't check the hardness.

Oooo I feel your pain...I'm cleaning out a house that was just left to me, and even though we have to probate there shouldn't be any angry relatives and I'm still overwhelmed! You've got this! It'll be done and gone soon! Hang in there!

Ok, specifically how much less glycerin? Are you using close to what myself and Dibbles are using? Mine cure in an airconditioned (set at 75) and dehumidified (at 50%) room, but in two days they are hard. Hrmmmmmm are you sure your scale is accurate? Any other deviations from the recipe? Oh...

That low of lard and it smells piggy? If your original lard isn't highly scented, then you might've overheated your oils. That will make the lard smellier. Try soaping at a lower temperature before wasting a ton of money on FOs?

SLSA, two wild hares. Shea I get from essential depot. Cocoa butter I got through a destash group, before that amazon :)

Your soap should NOT smell nasty. Something's wrong that no scent is going to cover. Was it pine tar? Was it a milk soap? What was it?

cmzaha, I had to cut the glycerin wayyyy down. If you are following her receipe as written, I end up using 85-90 grams (in my case I measure in oz so it's 3oz) of glycerin. I'm also using her kit which has the tapioca starch instead of cornstarch, in her instructions she says you may have to...

I got the palm and now I have a huge box in my living room...looks like I'll need to pick up some buckets!

Don't walk in and go "I'm PAGAN and heyyyyy what's that smell?" and you'll be fine. Just go in and ask, if it's a respectable church they welcome people of any belief system. A simple "what is the incese you use(d)?" will suffice, no need for lengthy theological discourses for that :)

No pictures, but if you see oil beading in spots well after cure it's probably got DOS (in my experience). Plus the smell is the same light or dark soap (like rancil cooking oil)

I was going to say that's a small hissing cockroach until I read the baby part! I've held one of those. But growing up in florida with flying palmetto bugs (and they have an odor too), I will not voluntarily own a roach of any species. Nope. Splat. Giant slug might be cool though....

$5 for a 4.5 oz bar is not expensive for handmade soap....that's average if not low. It doesn't last long *because* it lathers so well-all that lather is soap! Just like 100% coconut oil soap lathers awesomely but doesn't last long, same idea. I'm also voting for it being MP soap because of...

Made another one: Fresh Cut Roses-first time I used this I was thinking it wouldn't behave in CP based on how it did in HP, but it actually was fine! Mild acceleration -seems to be typical for florals-but you could get a two color swirl out of it. It's not quite as strong off the bat in CP...

I disagree, I'd have them ship it back-because I've read website where they do this on purpose. They'll buy something, demand a refund, keep using said something and tada! Free something! It's touted as a frugal money saving method...errr no. I would up date the return policy though LOL.

jcandle...ahhh ok between the two I see what is meant. For some reason I was picturing a 50/50 lye, then adding the soda pop to the lye solution...not sure how I came up with that. Side note, I've read to boil it down...I can't imagine that clean up or smell! I did not do that LOL. I just let...

Few notes....this batch is 100% coconut oil, CP, pretty much room temp (lye was still warm). First off , three scents NOT to mix! I mixed Blackberry Sage, Honeybee, and White Tea due to usage rates. Equal parts. When used, it turned my batter into a horrible seperated mess! I knew it was...

cmzaha, how do you dilute your lye then? Or are you basically using it as an additive? My plan was to use it for 100% of the liquid (which I did) , didn't think of just adding a small portion and then calling it soda soap LOL.

I use 1 tsp per pound of oil personally.... becomes a medium grey

If it's got sugar, it will massively volcano when you add the lye to it LOL...I made soap out of Mountain Dew and the liquid volume expanded to a LOT . I used the soda as my water, after letting it go flat. It turned bright orange and more than tripled in volume. No smell survived, but talk...