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Well, I'm definitely willing to give hemisqualane a try. When I do a search on Susan's blog I come up with nothing. Do you know of any good recipes? I did find this one, but it contains humectants, (vitamin B5, and silk peptides)which I realize now, I don't want to use. I don't need to attract...

DeeAnna, how does this compare to regular silicones? They make a dent in my frizziness, but the build up is so annoying. And with fine hair, it just looks greasy...yuck. I've yet to find something I really like, that actually helps my frizzy hair. And I've tried a boatload of "frizz tamers." And...

You've received some good advice here Soapsister. Soapmaking is a funny thing. It's pretty straightforward, and it's also complex. The process itself is pretty simple, you mix oils and lye and you get soap. But there are so many things that can affect the outcome. Like whether you measure by...

Thanks for the kind words, CaraBou. :) Even though I'm terrible at swirling, I don't mind so much, because I really do like the look of a plain bar. And I love your first soaps, too. Isn't it funny the fondness we have for those very first soaps? I guess at that point, we couldn't imagine how...

Funny you should ask. Some friends and I are having a yard sale tomorrow, and I found my first digital camera and thought I'd put it in the "to go" pile. I wanted to check the memory card first to see if there was anything on it, and sure enough, I found a soap pic. It's from 2003, and you can...

I remember how overwhelmed I felt at the beginning. Soapmaking is easy and complex all at the same time. You've received excellent advice here. Whatever base recipe you decide to go with, try changing only one thing at a time. That way, you'll know for sure what contributed to the change in your...

It was very scary, and it did cross my mind for a moment that it might actually be real, but fortunately for me, that idea didn't last long. No, I haven't had the IRS scam call, but I did get another. I had seen a report on the news recently about a phone scam where they call, and when you...

Thanks guys, everything seems OK this morning. Geez, that was really scary, I'm sure a lot of people fall for it. The reason I thought it might be legit was that they didn't ask me to click on a link, but to call a number. Thank goodness I'm such a skeptic, right? I use AVG, and it found...

Just had something very scary happen. I googled "Soap is Beautiful", an old blog that had some gorgeous soap pics. Two links came up that looked like they linked to the blog. The first one had a message that what I was looking for didn't exist any more. Ever hopeful, I clicked on the second one...

I don't use the kind of diffuser you've listed above, but I do use a candle diffuser that doesn't use electricity or have any moving parts, but does the same thing. I've included a pic below. It has a bowl that holds water, and you can add a few drops of EO to the water, which is heated by a tea...

Loooove that one from Mossy Creek with the glycerine rivers. They make a really nice design element, and I like the color combo too.

I'm so happy for you to be able to fulfill this desire you've carried for so long. I love music, always have, since I can remember. But I have no musical talent, much to my dismay. I always imagined being able to play Gymnopedies #1, it's so beautiful and SLOW, that I thought even I might be...

No. :) Isn't it nice? I want to wear it. Maybe a solid perfume? Or storage unit? Or two? Or an intervention! :shock:

Please DO NOT POST FO REVIEWS!!! I have shelves and boxes of FOs I haven't even used yet, but reading reviews will cause me to buy even more! Pretty soon my house will look like one of those hoarders who just have tiny, little pathways to travel around their house. Yep, that will be me. Oh by...

I guess I'm weird, because I don't mind the smell of pine tar. I'm not in love with it, but it doesn't bother me at all. And I think your soap is beautiful. It looks like a big hunk of chocolate fudge! :)

I would follow the above advice from Susie and TEG. I think, for a beginner, you're over complicating things for yourself. I'm sure beginners hate to hear my advice, but it's just this kind of situation that I'm trying to help them avoid. Instead of multi colored swirls, why not just a one...

Holy moley, those are some bubbles!!! Nice job there, dibbles. :)

By adding the FO to the oils before adding the lye, you can get an early indication of how the batch is going to behave. When I do this, I watch carefully what happens when I add the lye. If the FO is not problematic, the oils will probably go slightly cloudy right away, but if the FO is going...

My standard recipe is called Balance. I named it that because balance was the main thing I was hoping to achieve with my standard recipe...conditioning enough, hard enough and enough lather. I tweaked that recipe over and over again for what seemed like forever, until I was happy with it. After...

I like gelled soaps, and I gel almost all of my batches. The purpose of CPOP is to encourage the soap to gel all the way to the edges, but NOT to cook the soap. Just a gentle nudge. Here is the method I use, and my soaps gel all the way every time, and I have never had "silicone rash" on any of...