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thank you for the reply, ironically I found a documentary last night on netflix called Good hair, Chris Rock was the host. Hair relaxer was one of the topics. Sodium hydroxide is one of the ingredients in hair relaxer. The documentary goes into detail on the dangers of the product. I'm not...

I have a question about sodium hydroxide in 5 minute hair masks. It defies all logic that I've learned about soap making. I'm no expert but What I've learned is sodium hydroxide is for bar soap and potassium hydroxide is for liquid soap. I understand there are hybrids and exceptions to rules but...

Thank you all, love this forum! Soap turned out great.

Hello, I'm working on a brine soap recipe and from what I understand, the correct way to calculate percentage of salt is to subtract the lye amount from the water amount then multiply by percentage x. My question is how much of the water is going to be designated for the salt to dissolve? Is it...

December is going by so fast I have $1 in my bank account I have $1 in my savings account I thought possitive thinking would save me I try to make our home comfortable and today I was taken for granted. I'm pretty sure I witnessed the after scene of a person who jumped off of a bridge on to a...

When you find the dish paste ( goop ) recipe, please post it in the dish soap recipe thread that is currently active. I would like to see it. It's defiantly our first line of defense making sure that our homes are safe from allergens and toxic ingredients.

I beleive this. I feel myself pulling away from the materialism more and more and I wouldnt be surprised if Other people are noticing the ridiculous spending that goes on in households. This is true in your face and in your private business stuff. I stopped posting on FB over a year ago because...

People who leave parishable refrigerated food in the dry food section because they are to lazy to take the items back when they decide they do not want, need, afford or whatever reason. I can understand if you just got an emergecy call that your house is burning down or suddely you start having...

I appreciate what you are saying and can relate to how oils are good for hair ( having thick hair helpsl ) but when you say never use soap..thinking this might need a new topic but how do you wash your hands in the most needed sanitary moments? It might seem like TMI but it's needed information...

It's the shampoo my hair loves not specifically the preservatives. The shampoos that I have used in the past have preservatives.

It's definitely the the preservatives, I had the allergy patch test done and it came back possitive for both preservatives used in most liquid soaps. Yup so far my hair is very unhappy with this conclusion, my hands hate the preservatives and my hair loves them.

My hands have felt 95% better because of staying away from liquid soaps and detergents. I also started making my own clothes soap powder. Trying to go completely natural in my home. My hair is not cooperating with my plan though! I'm glad your eczema cleared up. I'm sure millions of people would...

That's a great idea! Let us know how it turned out.

I remembered you said you use tallow after I posted this question. I just cut it and the smell already seems to be less...maybe I'm becoming desensitized to it or it really is going to be ok. I'm definitely staying away from fragrance right now. The chemical preservatives that trigger my allergy...

I made a tiny batch last night. It's been about 12 hours. It smells like lard...will the smell go away?

Getting older is like having a second puberty again. All these changes that we go through. I'm glad that the problem was only temporary for you. Now I am off to the dishsoap thread to ask a question about lard :)

I took a peek at the link you posted. I had no idea that a forum existed about long hair. I do have long hair but I'm not fascinated by it or others hair. It's hair healthy or not. I do need help with this mess on my head soooo I will ask questions when they let me in. Thank you for leading me...

Ok the next pomagrant I open will have the skin pureed with distilled water and put in ice cube trays for the big freeze test. I'll pick up yoghurt and honey next week on my grocery day.

Drying the skin is an option. The videos I watched say to dry it in the sun. Unfortunately the sun has been hiding behind clouds and rain, today the wind started howling! Would a low setting on my toaster oven work....maybe for a few hours? I could make puree ice cubes as a other option.

Yes! I wanted to try yoghurt as a face mask. I like your idea of using the fresh skin. Do you think freezing the Pomagrant skin would work so it can be used semi fresh/ not dried for off season months or do you think using seasonal fruit as it's available fresh would be a better option?