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That's awesome!! Congrats!

It could be that most soap has a ph of around 10 and hair's ph is 5 or 6 so, when you wash your hair with soap, you are effectively drying it out. I found out this info from here: http://killerstrands.blogspot.com/2008/09/understanding-shampoo-through-ph-scale.html "pH and Shampoo...

Hi Amy! Love your face painting!! Welcome from another newbie. LA.

I bought an orange vanilla bar once, that stated only sweet orange E/O in the ingredients but it had vanilla bean flecks in it. The vanilla scent lasted all through the bar until the end. There was a supplier that was selling crushed vanilla bean, but I can't remember who it was. That might...

Did you say you used oxides to color? If so, I've had the oxides(all colors) leave clear streaks in the soap when it overheats. If this is the first time you've used oxides and you always insulate, it could be that. Luck!

I had this happen with my oxides. I contacted the nice people over at Brambleberry and they suggested that I was letting the soap get too hot in the mold. (I knew they were probably right as those batches that had the streaks also had that wrinkly skin texture on top from overheating. Someone...

We made a chocolate peppermint goats milk soap with cocoa powder and peppermint e/o. It was a beautiful dark brown and smelled like chocolate and peppermint. 6 months later, the remaining bar stills smells like chocolate and peppermint. My co-workers thought it was fudge. Pretty funny!

I thought it was pretty good. It didn't dry me out, which is a plus in the LA weather. It is very aromatic. Which I have to be careful with sometimes. I volunteer with a therapeutic riding program on the weekends and some scents attract the bee's like crazy! What I did like though, is how...

Like I said, I'm an addict! lol! I like to try them all. I should take a pic of my soap shelf, but honestly, it's a mess and I should not subject anyone to that. I like reading all the soapmaking blogs and looking at the websites of all the sellers out there. I get so envious sometimes...

Hey thanks, Melstan! Nope, not in the valley, (not beach either... darn it) but the last few years it's been really hot all summer, so... go figure. Zum Bar is a goats milk bar that is sold at Whole Foods. The company is out of Kansas City, Mo and is called Indigo Wild. They've got a very...

So, my first day posting! Yay! I've been making soap and thrusting it in my friends and family's hands for several months now. I started making it last May on a whim and now I can't stop. I've done, or I should say, my roommate and I have done (since I dragged her into this hobby as well)...