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Thank you so much for your review, I also really love fruity scents and I have been looking for a good peach scent!

Beautiful soap! I tried making a soap with glycerine rivers on purpose and just ended up with normal soap hahaha. My fingers are crossed for you that it works out and your bars stay good for a long time!🤞🏻

Did you end up sticking with 2% superfat? The ghost soap looks amazing!!!

Welcome! Have you already made some candles then?

If you're looking for ways to incorporate garlic in a soap, I would consider making a garlic infused olive oil to put in your soap. I would also consider making your soap at a lower temperature, like 80°- 90°F to try to keep as many beneficial properties of your ingredients as possible.

If you're doing melt and pour you can look into liquid colorants to minimize any inhalation risk too. I accidentally bought some at the craft store because they said they were soap safe. Turns out they meant for melt and pour because those colors disappeared in my cold process soap hahaha. But...

Your soap looks great!

Have you tried adding salt? I believe the recommended ratio is 1 tsp/PPO but it's one of the methods I'm trying next for a harder bar. That, and tallow.

Thank you! I was so worried I'd swirled too much and it would be muddy, but it turns out over blending the batter worked out in my favor and the colors all stayed pretty separate. I think on the next batch I do with this fragrance, I'll add more raspberry scent just so I can call it Berrycream...

Hi Steven, welcome to the forum!

I think the crinkle cutter brought really brought out the pattern in your bars too! You absolutely should be proud, they look awesome! Where did you get your micas? The last Mica I used wasn't great quality and the color disappeared when it hit the lye hahaha

This is my 5th batch of soap and I was finally brave enough to try a hangar swirl! Reusable zip ties worked really well (and they were like $5 at the store near me) and so far the Spirulina is holding up as a nice natural sage-hued Colorant. Activated charcoal for the black portion, and I let...

I've had some moderate success rendering the tallow in a crockpot with water, salt, and a cut potato. I still found I had to go through the render 3-4 times before the grease smell really disappated. I know there were other people that go for even more renders than that to really get that scent...

Recipes are how I found this forum too! Welcome! 🙌

LizzardBlizzard because I go by Lizzie usually, and I have friends that call me Lizard Blizzard when the winter weather is bad to be funny 😂 my avatar is a painting my grandmother made in 1964. I'm an acrylic/ink/watercolor artist also so I love to rotate my avatars through art I've painted or...

It's exciting to be a new member! Looking forward to getting to know you and your soap journey!

I wish I'd learned about soap making in highschool chemistry, it would've made that class feel useful and less like torture. (The other chemistry class at the same time got to use the school lab so we literally just memorized chemistry facts and formulations, and had 0 experiments. 0 fun.) I'm...

That last one with the round circle in the middle looks like a desert sunrise 🌄 so beautiful! They all look great!

I've had a couple of art teachers recommend simple white unscented bar soap, and I've also seen castile soap on the market on artist websites for sure, but you're definitely onto something of it harms the natural fibers over time. I'm in information gathering mode so if I was looking for more...

I'm just getting into soap making (hello world!) And I wanted to ask opinions on the best kind of cp soap to make to wash paintbrushes used for watercolor or acrylic painting. Most resources I've found have recommended a mild unscented soap, so I was thinking of making castile soap maybe...