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Mechanical connection. Make your decorations in a dumbell shape and embed them when you form the bath bombs.

Depends on who writes the recipe. Weight is standard, though.

Breweries use finings made from animal products quite frequently. Both gelatin and isinglass (made from fish bladders) are common in traditional practice. Finings are added to improve clarity by settling yeast and particulates from suspension. However, most breweries of any size are going to...

I don't think that was meant as critically as you seem to have taken it. DeeAnna's response above is pretty much the same point I was trying to make by referencing the video I was too lazy to find and link. I, for one, appreciate your enabling my laziness. :D

And the thing some people don't quite seem to realize is that there will no longer be lemon in the finished soap. There will be some amount of sodium citrate, some sugars, and a bit more unsaponified oil than there would otherwise have been. We know lye changes almost everything and don't...

There's a relatively famous video about this, if it's still posted. Nobody has yet asked WHY you want to add lemon juice. If it's to generate sodium citrate as a chelator, that's one thing. If you're going for any kind of lemon characteristic in the finished soap, this isn't the way to make...

I get mine on Amazon, but I've never searched for Feathers. They're purportedly sharper than I want to mess with and Astras work fine for me. My razor is a relatively easy-to-use Merkur, too. (I've so got a 50 year old Gillette that I pulled out from behind a wall - the one with the sides that...

Profitable is easy. I'm profitable on the stuff I make on commission. A living wage is another story.

Anybody tried this dupe of Hoppes #9? A pound is quite a lot to try an unknown. I'm not even sure if it's CP safe.

Also DE blades are VASTLY cheaper than even Dollar Shave club. Like two years worth (weekly change) of Astras for $10.

As far as I know, there is no call center for Amazon. Just return it via the normal methods. Send an email about what was wrong. Also leave a scathing review - with pics if possible.

I'm sorry, I read your post too fast. The 3:1 ratio is 25% concentration and I was thinking of it as 33% concentration. Please ignore my post above.

If you want to know "how" without necessarily knowing "why" all you have to do is swap the recommended amounts of water and lye that the calculator recommends.

Irishlass is right (as usual). My previous microwave did that if the cover wasn't scrupulously clean. Those things are made of mica-impregnated paper and are transparent to microwaves. The problem is that if they get some grease splashed on them, that spot is no longer transparent. The...

I will take commissions from a select few now, but have no interest at all in selling other than that. I've seen too many home brewers destroy their hobby by trying to make it a business - even those who succeeded at the business. As far as soap goes, I didn't come into this looking to save...

As far as being "a chemical" I wouldn't worry about that unless you're going for some kind of label appeal. EDTA is used in all kinds of stuff from cosmetics, to food, to eye drops. It's safe enough. I personally use sodium citrate because I also use it in the kitchen for making cheese...

That's soap scum from hard water, almost certainly. Easiest way to test it is to buy a bottle of distilled water and wash your hands with that. If the feeling goes away, that's your problem. The "fix" for this is a chelator like sodium citrate or EDTA, but the first step is confirming that's...

That's about 3 times as much castor as you need. It's probably into detrimental territory but I've never personally gone that high to be able to say that definitively. If your rapeseed (canola) is high-oleic, you're not far off from the same thing as 50% olive, so that's fine. If it's NOT...

Safflower HO.

+1 on tempering it