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I work at the DMV. People who go to the DMV to renew their license, get it out to show the greeter and get a number and then put their license back in their wallet. Then act shocked that the csr asks for it. Hello 👋 you are getting a NEW license today. End of rant.

Why hasn’t one mentioned salt?

Do I have enough comments to compete?

What about on top??

I drink a lot of tea and often brew loose fruit tea. Lots of colors and bits of dried fruit. Has anyone decorated their soap tops with loose tea and does it discolored or bleed?

Interesting tip about FOs accelerating. I’ll keep in mind my next FO mishap. Thanks

My aloe Vera soap is my personal favorite, I use the juice in place of water

I made a made a simple syrup with table sugar and add at trace

I have two basic receipts. Lard and Crisco. I made myself preprinted note cards that I use for each batch. Date, FO, mica, and temps. I draw out my design On the back, I make notes on acceleration, trace, gel And anything funky, I keep the notecards with the curing batch to continue to make...

When one says 35-40% salt. What is it the percentage of? Oils or total weight?

I Find 100% CO soap sets up super fast and hard. It produces a thin trace, but is hard in 12 hours. I'm adding pumice to make River Rock soap. 30% super fat. I have found I MUST force gel.

I've been trying my hand at river rock soap with 100% CO, pumice powder and AC. The first photo is my three try so far. The second photo is my first try and looks great. I've been keeping decent notes (to myself) as to temp and SF. My attempts (L-R) 1. First try was a success in color and...

Not cleaned up yet, but I'm pleased with the result.

I attempted to make a pumice soap in a river stone mold. I used AC to make the base gray and did a pot swirl with black and a goldish mica. I'm really pleased with the wet look. I used 100% CO and 20% superfat. I want a hard cleansing bar. Super excited for the unmolding

When I started 6 months ago, I was like a kid in the candy store, ooooh I want to do this swirl and this recipe and add these clays. Now I am working on the same basic recipe that traces slow and I am making lots of notes on oil and lye temp. What TD, AC and additives do to the same recipe what...

I recently switched Soap Calculators from Soapcal to Soapmaking Friend and I have been concentrating on developing a basic recipe. I really like that Soapmaking Friends site allows me to hover over an additive and tell me when it should be added to the recipe. I also like that it offers cost...

This recipe for Sodium Lactate was shared with me by a fellow soaper. I haven't tried it yet. measure out lets say 16oz water and weigh the pot with the water in it....make note of that weight....dont tare the scale....(make sure you weight out the salt before)....the heat the water up....to...

I made a simple syrup 1 cup water, 1 cup sugar. I add a teaspoon to a pound

which sunflower oil do you use? off the shelf at the grocery store or ordered from supply company

Newbie here, trying my hardest to learn how to swirl. I've watched months of you tube videos and I've been experimenting with known recipes from Brambleberry, and WPS. I have 10 bars curing with dreadful swirls. I've tried the spoon swirl, drop and hanger swirl. I've tried to make a thinner...