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Just me, but I would list ingredients in order of weight, e.g. is your castor oil volume more than your water? I'm outta touch having not made soap in a long time but...

Wow, so I had about 2 oz stashed away for a couple years remembering I love it but having had comments about it being overpowering. Made a red Hawaiian Alaea salt soap with it tonight, 3 parts sweet orange 10x to 1 part white thyme. Set up on me immediately. Tried to beat it into submission but...

Wonderful, thanks for sharing! And wow, 5-6 tons of plant material to yield 40 liters of essential oil.

So granted it's young soap, only five weeks old, but noticeable differences from my salt bars using shea butter. Lather is nice but no more so than my shea butter version. But I find it gritty, thin feeling and not so emollient as my shea bars at the same age. 75 percent coconut oil 15 percent...

Coincidental timing, I had this happen yesterday, for the first time ever with a simple milk recipe, using coconut milk. By the time my lye solution had cooled down it was the consistency of thick Greek yogurt. Hmmmmm. Well, I had let my mix of coconut milk, distilled water, silk, sugar and clay...

Yes, you will need to make or buy a still, even a tiny one, and have a LOT of plant material, far more than just ounces. I looked into it too, but would have to convert my entire yard to lavender to be able to make a small amount of lavender EO, and with a LOT of work and time. Far more...

Yes, I did as well, and was grateful that Debbie forwarded the info, otherwise I probably never would have stumbled upon it.

Mine are never greasy, although they may feel that way for 30 seconds or so until the oils sink into the skin. I never use IPM, want mine to be chemical-free. A couple recipes I use all the time, they are not in percentage order but the order I melt them, beeswax takes a long time, I add the...

Ah, interesting, Dixie Dragon, of course it makes sense that it's illegal to sell the products of hunting. I remember lots of sad stories of organs of poached animals from the mountains of Virginia being sold on the black market to China. Guess if I make tallow from hunters' harvests it will be...

Yooper, do you sell? If so I'd love to order a bar. Just ordered a bar of beef tallow and lard soap but really want to try one with deer tallow. TIA!

I'm loving a combo (courtesy Soap-Making-Resource) of sage, cedarwood, lime and patchouli that could work well. Alas, I wish lime would stick and that I could find it folded. Rosemary's a nice idea too. Tamanu's expensive, though wonderful. I reserve it for my facial products and lotion. Adore it.

In the past I made mostly rectangular tiger swirls with fancy tops and glitter, really pretty, many combinations of EOs and a fair amount of FOs. What I wound up using though, were reject uncolored hockey pucks that were too hard to make into felted soaps. The fancy soaps felt an awkward size...

With silicone molds I force gel by CPOP, preheat oven to 170 (lowest mine will go), turn off, place soap directly on oven rack, let sit for several hours. Even then I wait 2-3 days before unmolding. And I always use salt or sodium lactate.

Anyone know of a supplier for RSPO certified sustainable palm oil? Google searches have come up empty. I would happily buy it in bulk, even at higher prices. ETA: I see Columbus (Soapers Choice) has it. Guess I'll order and swear at the !@#$ bag-in-a-pail. Well, silly me. Just checked the pail...

Years ago I found that in high humidity, damp weather some of my soaps were a little wet and precipitating oil. Yup, I was storing them in a closed cupboard too. Since then I've stored mine on bakers' racks lined with parchment paper in a room with plenty of ventilation, and have had no...

I hate huge bars of soap too, can't get my hand around them. Weight is also determined by what's in the soap. For example, my salt bars weigh considerably more than soleseife, which weighs more than soap without salt, despite the fact that they are the same size.

I make alpaca-felted soaps, and the hockey puck size is perfect. Love this tubing idea, can't wait to try it! I'm not so handy, so will try to figure out a way to do this without any drilling. Ideas, gang?

These are my two indispensable soaping bowls, both found in thrift stores. I don't know what I'm going to do when they crack or break from much more wear, can't find anything similar online. Love the handles and spouts and that they easily fit in my microwave. I can't see the image I uploaded...

I wish I knew anything about liquid soap, but have never tried making it. Maybe some of our most experienced will chime in again.

I use 5% castor oil in all my soaps, and up the percentage for salt bars.