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Hi, POO is Pomace Olive Oil SAO is Sweet Almond Oil Yes, CO is Coconut Oil I've made a 500g batch, no colours, just the Essential Oils - I haven't used any colourants yet with any of the batches I've made, I need to get brave lol, so it must be the oils that have given it the colour... 🙂

This is my 5th batch, just poured, made with POO/CO/SAO/Castor, with Rose Geranium, Patchouli, Bergamot EOs. It's now in the mould, sleeping, I'm hoping it doesn't get too hot, but I'd like it to go through full gel phase...

I bought it online from a small company in the UK, I'm going to email them first, give them a chance, but I won't be buying soap from them again! I won't need to anyway because I've started to make my own 😉 I might leave a review, depending on the outcome of the email... To be fair, I got a...

Thanks DeeAnna, I've used the soap this afternoon to clean my oven and oven racks, and I've 'used up' the brown bits - it hasn't gone all the way through... it's been relegated to household soap now!

Ah, well spotted! I'm in the UK, I'm not 100% sure, but I think I read somewhere about labelling requirements and use by in the UK... even so, thinking about it, 2022 seems a long way off! Update: I bought a bar of their aloe vera for my daughter too... She hadn't unwrapped it yet, so I just...

Yes, I'm going to send an email with the photos

Yes, I'm going to send an email with the photos... Let us know how you get on with the oven clean!

Ah, thank you for the tips! I have some Sweet Almond oil and Castor too, wasn't quite sure what to do with them tbh... Haha, I needed to clean my oven and racks as they're messy with burnt-on 'husband making food and bread' stuff (he's a chef, but throws ingredients around with a flourish so...

Lol, I've only just started making my own really, just learning, I thought by buying one I'd not only be supporting a small business but I wouldn't have to wait weeks to find out if I like CO-heavy soap - research objective achieved, I don't! 🙂

Thank you... I don't think it smells off, although I'm not too sure what off would smell like tbh... It doesn't smell strong or anything... At least I know what DOS looks like now though! I was thinking of trying to make a soap that has a CO base, that's why I bought this one, but I think it...

Good morning soapy friends! I just unwrapped a cp soap that I recently bought (photos attached of each side of the soap). Does anyone know what the markings are please, I presume the soap is absolutely fine to use... The soap was wrapped in greaseproof paper, with the shiny side to the soap...

Hi Adri71, Have you used dark patchouli or regular patchouli - I'm just curious... 🙂

Hi Judithyw 👋 I'm a newbie too, already learnt so much from the fantastic knowledge and advice from SMF members, so glad I joined! Happy soapmaking 😃 Ps, I'm in the UK.

I'm not exactly sure how I just stumbled across this, but wow! 😮😍 Thank you DeeAnna for posting this, I have to say I thought hardness was the hardness of the finished product, and that cleansing related to how well the soap would clean (or as I interpreted cleaning 'strip the skin of its...

Thank you linne1gi for your advice, everyone's so helpful on this forum, I'm so grateful! 😊

Ahh, thank you! This is just 'patchouli', I'll see if I can find where to buy dark from... I'm in the UK 😊

Hi all! I opened my first bottle of patchouli essential oil just now, and it doesn't smell like I thought it would! I thought it would smell like the hippy patchouli oil that I remember, that people wore on their demin jackets in the early 80s... Should patchouli eo smell like that, or have I...

Thanks DeeAnna, I think it's starting to make a bit more sense now! I've been looking at the sap values in different places for comparisons, and I just read on the Brambleberry lye calculator that it assumes the NaOH has 97% purity... So, if my NaOH was say, 98% purity, would I really only need...

Thanks Earlene, I'll buy some of the meshing to be on the safe side, and get some alcohol too! I'll have a read of the link you've attached, much appreciated! 😊

That might have been me putting the partially gelled slices in the oven?? I posted not so long ago... I think I cut into my soap too soon, I cut it after 24 hours but it was very soft when I cut into it... I realised it was partial gel so I put it in the oven on very low for a bit (I'd read...