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When I heard about the alcohol spray to prevent ash 91% was what I was told to use. I didn't have any so I used 70% and it worked just fine. So I think you're good.

Good resources @earlene. I personally don't go out of my way to avoid GM products but it could be helpful to those who do, or who wish to sell to those who do. I can probably find links to support this later if it interests anybody, but for me personally I think we've done worse things to crops...

Interesting question. I've never done a soap with egg yolk. I'd be surprised if any of the soap calculators had it but I haven't used them all. Best analogy I can think of is using milk of some type. When I've put goat milk in my soap I've always put it in as an additive and not considered it...

My very first soap I used a vanilla FO and it turned very brown. Then it got ash on it and it may just be the ugliest soap ever made. Smells great though. I mixed the vanilla FO with cedarwood and orange EOs. I just grabbed a bar for the shower the other day and it is great soap. Next time I'll...

Good to think about. I already used it once this morning and didn't find it harsh at all, though I suppose I may start to feel it after repeated use. But if this morning is any indication, it actually getting milder will make it very smooth. I was just alarmed after the post about liquid soap...

May do that next time, whenever that may be, it looks like this stuff may last quite a while. It doesn't really have much of a taste as it is, a little bit of shea butter aroma, a little bit of soapiness when I spit it out but not overwhelming. It's usable. Should I not have used KOH? I'd...

In another thread I said I'd just about made everything I need for personal care except toothpaste and I wasn't sure I wanted to make toothpaste. Sort of seriously, I was kinda creeped out by the idea of homemade toothpaste. Then @earlene linked me to a thread about tooth soap, which is...

The plain ol' castor oil I got in the laxatives section at Walmart looks pretty clear to me, but I haven't looked at it all that close.

It is pretty cool. I got into this because I was tired of crappy body wash and didn't like paying $7 a bar for good soap. But you use your stuff and you just think "you know, I made this". Funny thing is that I've probably spent more money now than I ever would have paying $7 a bar... That's...

Sure doesn't. But I just got out of the shower where I washed with soap that I MADE, put on deodorant that I MADE, shaved with shaving soap that I MADE, and put on lotion that I MADE. All I lack now is syndet bars and toothpaste. Not sure I want to make my own toothpaste though. The folks in...

I took another stab at the deodorant I was talking about in the other thread, this time with babassu oil and candelilla wax. I'm still in the process of judging its effectiveness. BUT! I liked working with the babassu oil, I got some on my hands and it absorbed quickly and left my hands feeling...

That's who I got it from. The price was right but the packaging was annoying. I ended up putting it in a pot of hot water, I didn't really think of the sink. Probably would have been easier since the jug was about twice as tall as the pot, the oil melted at the bottom first and I was slamming...

Swords are freakin' cool. No doubt. If I was going to take it up I'd have to be all in with the equipment and everything. It might be fun to find a group and observe though.

Wow. Another thing I can waste my time with. Do I really want to click those links?

So, if babassu oil is solid at room temperature, why does it come in a bottle? Like a jug that you pour. :mad:

That sounds awesome. Where do I find one of these?

About 30 minutes left until the weekend. It's going to seem like hours.

Lunch. I bought lunch. A chicken sandwich and some pork rinds, and a Coke. Actually, food would be the usual answer to that question for me.

Definitely, that's the fun part for me. And that's the way I learn things too, I have to get my hands in it and see why things work the way they do. I can just repeat what someone else has done but it doesn't help me understand why you do it that way. That said, if I'd do the reading I could...

Thanks for the link. I'll give it a look-over. I did find a post searching this forum that said to use candelilla wax at about 2/3 what you would use for beeswax, because of the hardness difference. Not sure about the baking soda on the skin thing, but I'm not using baking soda so not really a...