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True, how undemocratic and belittling. I waited 3+ months for some soap boxes, had to call them, and found out they ordered them from China and were just waiting to pass them along. Yes, I like the soap containers but it was just lucky I didn't need them yet and ordered early.

Thanks for sharing! I'm going to note your wise words. And I noticed you added about 4.8% salt+pumice to oils. I want to make a pumice bar which is hard, heavy, long lasting, but not with noticeable scratchiness. Would you say your salt-pumice bar has those qualities?

Thanks for sharing! We used to do this in Minnesota, and I think it looks more like around there. Her leaching bucket is nice! We used a regular barrel. Also, my Grandma's pork fat soap was a bit smelly, and we just used pork fat soap for washing up dishes and such in the kitchen (not for...

Pretty!

They're both lovely...my eye gravitates to the white bar. Where are the FO from?

Ok

Testing new oil combos for my french-milled soap. I want a hard bar, one that will go through my meat grinder. Today I'm experimenting with more a more, standard simple soap recipe. I previously made soap with majority oils (almond, coconut, palm oils) plus beef tallow. Then also added minimal...

Looks like some agate!

Welcome! Look forward to hearing your soaping stories...!

Hi, I did a test batch of French mailed lavender soap a couple days ago. Unmoulded it today. It is pretty soft right now. Instead of a little oil I added some glycerin when rebatching it. Also, I think the lavender buds smell great but they aren’t a color. That’s OK I guess. Any suggestions on...

Hello everybody, this is my first post on your website. Yesterday I let my daughter put together a gift basket. It had laundry soap, shaving soap, fragrance soap, and a scrubbing soap. The scrub soap was a honey almond, the shave soap uses sandalwood EO and leather scent, the fragrance soap was...