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Lye Heavy When you realized you had too much lye, adding water does no good - it is the lye to oil ratio that is a concern. You would have needed to up your oils.

Tempering Soap I HP. While my soap is cooking, I put my SF, such as cocoa butter or mango butter, in a small pyrex dish and set that in a small pan of water on LOW on my stove. It is always ready to add at the end of the cook and plays nicer since it is warm.

Clay in Soap I love using clay in soap. It helps to anchor the scent, and it feels good on the skin, especially the face. I use 2 tsp clay ppo. I HP. For each 2 tsp of clay, I mix well with oil (taking some from my crockpot before I add lye water). At light trace, I mix a little of the...

Salt Bar Crumbles I HP my salt bars and clean the tops while still warm as soon as I can pop them out of the silicone mold cavities. I have collected a gallon size zip lock bag full now of salt bar crumbles. Any suggestions as to what I can do with them? -----------------------------------...

HP Salt Bars Yes, you can make wonderful salt bars using HP. I make a batch almost every week because they are my most popular soap. - Use 2 - 3% Sodium Lactate (it will help with fluidity) - Use only 50% salt to oil ratio - Be sure to HP at full water (38%) - SF at 20% - Keep to smaller...

Sandalwood FOs work well with beer soap.

Love the Goat! I love the goat! I would definitely purchase this mold if you made it to sell. So cute!

Salad Shooter If you do very much rebatching, a salad shooter is worth every penny. Try posting a WANTED on Freecycle.org - that is how I got mine.

I find it odd that someone washes with plain baking soda or would want it in their soap. Many people cannot even tolerate it in their deordorate because of burning and itching under the arms. That is why so many work on formulating deodorate without baking soda.

Added Glycerin I make HP and add 1/2 glycerin ppo at either trace or end of cook. I have found, that combined with 2 - 3% SL (to my cooled lye water), I have a much more fluid soap batter (for swirling) and a smoother bar.

Nut Oils I had planned to feature nut oils in part of my soap line and I like the results of using them in soap. But, the more I thought about the extreme allergies to nuts that some people have, especially children, I decided it was too much of a liability issues. There is also the issue of...

Tallow Replaces Palm Amy - when a recipe calls for palm, I substitute tallow and then run it through soapcalc. When I started making soap I had the dilemna of using palm and feeling bad about environmental issues or using tallow and vegans not buying my soap (I have yet to find an all...

Avocado Oil I get avocado oil from Costco. If you don't have a Costco, you can purchase it on-line from Soaper's Choice. They carry it in 35 pounds and 7 pounds. The 7 pounds is $18.35 + shipping. I find SC shipping more reasonable than anywhere else. I love avocado oil in my salt bars...

I buy beef tallow from Soaper's Choice and it is now my favorite soaping oil. I use it at least at 40% in my base recipe.

100% Coconut Oil Soap You can superfat 100% coconut oil soap 20 - 30% (whatever is your preference). The superfat is unsaponified and unsaponified coconut oil is NOT drying as coconut oil is extremely moisturizing. It will quickly become one of your favorite soaps.

Washing Soapy Dishes I soak all my soapying utensils in my soap pot for about ten minutes - nothing else added. I always dump this out in the yard because, even with Dawn, soap is bad for your pipes (my husband used to be a licensed plumber). I use a microfiber cloth to wipe out anything...

Stick Blending for 30 Minutes ???? I have never heard of stick blending any soap recipe for THIRTY minutes! Especially with HP.

Travel Soaps I would think that would work. I use them for solid lotion bars. But, sometimes I use my small heart-shaped cavity molds and pour my lotion in them and then pop those hearts in the little round containers. Since the heart molds are silicone, the soaps pop right out. This would...

Salt bars do best if you use a silicone cavity mold - then you don't have to worry about cutting. I do my salt bars HP and when I remove them from the cavity molds i use a planer - while they are still warm, and trim and smooth as needed.

Awesome Blueberry FO Elements Bath & Body has the most wonderful Blueberry Lemon Verbena Fragrance.