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You are so right, Judy. I like your combined sentence, will use it. Thanks for your input.

for my salt bars. Ready to mail out for an order, they look like this individually: and I'm making up a little card to put inside. It says something like this: (I have resisted for 10 years making medical claims of any kind for my soap....but I'm hoping this is less medical and more...

I like the lavender from New Directions. They now have many different ones to choose from. The Bulgarian is my favorite, but for budget reasons, I often use the Spanish too.

Sounds like it's a personal preference thing. Best to try both yourself, and decide what YOU prefer.

Well, bubblyBudha - I'm not surprised the Buddhas are your favorite, hehe. btw: why are you named that?

Stacey, didn't you read what I said above? I did give at least one reason.... :roll:

Salt bars like this (made with enough salt = half the weight of the oils) make the bars feel like a slab of marble when wet. I suppose some people like the sea salt feeling to them, feel that it cleanses the skin with the salt, leaving it "more pure". I prefer my regular bars, with lots of...

I like to gel, because I believe the soap hardens better, and stays hard after you begin using it. But I don't always get gel, as I soap in a cool basement, and no matter how many newspapers and towels I put atop my wooden mold, I often get no gel, or partial gel. I kind of like the look of...

Elly: PK is much harder than palm, and makes great bubbly lather, but is a bit more drying to skin, hence the need to blend several kinds of oils in a recipe. If you don't understand what different oils do to soap, you might want to try doing some experiments. You could make a 100% Palm soap...

Yes, and they were so easy to un-mold. Just popped out. I was going to color these with pink clay but my assistant this week wanted no extra additives, no scents either. We made six batches of unscented soap! ( I usually make only one unscented batch every few months). So many scents to...

I buy a 50 lb box of solid pk once a year, and chip it out of the box with a chisel, scraping it across the solid block to form sort-of flakes. Then I store the flakes in plastic bins. No problem buying a huge block, except that sometimes my hands get sore (a bit of arthritis). I don't think...

In our SoapMaker program, you can easily see the soap qualities resulting from using either of these two ingredients. Let me help here: Let's just talk about the soap qualities of: Fluffy lather - big initial bubbles Stable lather -small creamy bubbles Hardness Moisturizing (or...

Sounds great! it is so very much fun to experiment with all the lovely oils now available to us. It is quite expensive here though. Finding a source of oils is one of the most difficult parts of this whole soapmaking experience - but that is depending upon whether you want to sell, make a...

Did you see my salt bar post from a few days ago? My bars were very wet when stored in the cold basement of my house. I brought them upstairs into the warm sunshine, and where we have woodstove heat. They dried beautifully, with lovely sparkly salt crystals naturally decorating them. Yours...

Silicone muffin pans for molds, usual soap recipe with 48 ounces oils and added 24 ounces sea salt at trace. in molds: Unmolded next day but, on Day 2 in the cold basement, pools of oils formed on top. So I took bar upstairs and let it sit for another day in a warmer room. We heat...

my take: despite the fact that our food supply is in danger of being a LOT less safe than it was in the early 1900's, when all food was organic, nothing subjected to pesticides and herbicides...... I avoid canola in cooking, and I don't like how it makes soap bars feel 'sticky' in my hands...

Very nice, Jezzy! I look forward to your future experiments, with the chocolate line in it too.

There seem to be at least two kinds of ginger eo: one made from the fresh root, the other made from fresh ginger-stored-in-dirty socks (at least this is what one of them smells like to me). Awful. but I did get a good ginger from New Directions Aromatics.

a new popular blend for me in wintertime (hence Christmas-y) is: eucalyptus/lavender/peppermint/ in a 1:1:.5 ratio (my pep is super-strong). You can play with your own fav ratios. I also did a fir+orange which is very nice, and well-liked. My cinnamon blends seize up quickly, so I use...

This recipe intrigues me, esp at pumpkin time of year (pumpkins everywhere for sale). I'll give it a try - thank you!