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I store mine in open plastic bins with cheap white rice, separated in layers of perforated parchment paper (wax paper will just get wet). It really helps. After months of cure, it's easy to brush off the rice and package. I'm still trying to get it right after many experiments with rice and...

Been packing up my soaping operation and just threw out a metal baking rack that had started to get funky and rust. I always line my shelves with freezer paper, so soaps are fine. All the rest of my bakers shelves are coated, but the one uncoated one is definitely one for the trash. I'll stick...

Takeout containers, I second that idea. They come in all kinds of sizes and colors and are great with a bow or other dressings. I get tempted to put too much into containers, and these are really nice for a 'just right' mix of soaps, bath salts, candle, scrubbie, pretty washcloth, pumice...

http://www.marketwatch.com/story/ftc-cracks-down-on-products-that-claim-to-be-natural-2016-04-12 I hope this spreads far and wide!!!!!

Has anyone with complaints contacted Debbie at WSP? I've found her to be responsive and helpful. Haven't ordered with anyone for a long time due to disciplining myself to use up some of my overabundance of supplies before I order more. But if I do have a complaint I like to complain to the...

Ylang ylang, to my nose, is a really strong floral scent, the only EO I've used that is really floral. I use it in really small percentages like I would patchouli. A little of it goes a long way, and it sticks really well. And blends well with litsea.

I always measure oils in the same container too, and make two batches at a time (tried to make more but couldn't keep track of the over- under-pours, memory not that sharp). And I leave the shea butter for last, 'cuz if I'ver overpoured or underpoured on any others it's easy to fix with a...

For this reason I hate using INCI names. Sounds like really nice ingredients though. And would love to hear the surgeon's answer on the plant stem cells. I would start by boiling it down into English, e.g. familiar ingredients. Then maybe run some comparisons with other nice organic/natural...

Ylang ylang is, to me, a very sweet-smelling EO. I usually blend it with lime EO. ETA: Agree with Dibbles that a folded citrus EO will stick better. I love 15x sweet orange. Litsea is another good one, like Dibbles I find it milder and sweeter than lemongrass. Alas, I haven't found a folded...

Here's just one example, my standard recipes. I make almost nothing but brine and salt bars, and a few 'regulars' for felting. Regular (for felted soaps): I usually use sodium lactate instead, as they have to be soft enough to needle felt. Or, at most, a heaping tablespoon of salt for a 4-lb...

I use the one from Soap-Making-Resource, which is mixed in a carrier oil and accelerates like crazy at best, or like Carolyn says, seizes. I use it sparingly and blend it with Frankincense, Rosemary and Lavender EOs in an extra-fine Pink Himalayan salt soap for mature skin. Used in a low...

Ditto on all of the above. And keep stirring the batter every time you pour so you make sure you don't have unevenly-distributed salt. Been there, done that, wound up with first bars having little salt, latter bars mostly salt. Stir, stir, stir!

Hah, me too. Been soaping for years now but know myself well enough to know that a phone call or any other distraction can easily lead to my totally forgetting where I am in the process and really messing something up. For that reason I always put away every ingredient right after I've added it...

Really doesn't look like a lye burn to me, either... Conjecturing, of course, from my first-hand experience with lye burns.

Great to see you have an ingredient label including lye! Only thing I would change on that is list everything in descending order of weights, like I'm guessing your cocoa powder would be at the end as your least ingredient.

Salt bars for me too, several times a week, I make mine with activated charcoal, Dead Sea mud, tea tree oil and a little lavender. It's pretty much kept my face clear for several years since I started making/using it. I alternate with a gentle Pink Himalayan salt bar once in a blue moon if my...

Moroccan mint is one of the few FOs I use, and can't be without. Also adore Tobacco and Bay Leaf, and White Rose.

The Lego reinforcement idea is totally BRILLIANT! Love, love, love it :)

Do you have a back label listing ingredients? Lovely label, but I don't think about buying soap without a complete ingredients list.

Ditto on the large stainless steel shower caddies. I usually have at least a dozen soaps I like to alternate, and of course something new when it strikes me.