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I thought of doing CPOP but I had dinner in the oven. So no go there. But yeah I can see the preventing air bubbles thing... I'm anxious to get home and cut, I think I'm gonna use my new crinkle cutter since it's a more plain soap....

Already working on my Xmas soaps too my family likes simple and I need to put together a vegan recipe for extended family. But it's going well

Definitely trying this tomorrow

I started because I wanted to know what I was using and I'm a suburban homesteader (grow veggies, raise meat rabbits, crochet, knit, craft.) Now I have enough soap to last my family until 2035 but I still make some all the time. I gift them to family and am looking into selling them online to...

Was trying to do a two color chopstick swirl and it ended up two layer because of extreme acceleration I'll get to cut it tomorrow... At least it'll smell great

I usually do equal water to my lye and then the remainder in whatever my liquid of choice may be.

Made pine tar soap...forgot how fast it accelerates!!! And used my new mold. I also made a cinnamon bun soap with morrocan red clay and coconut milk. Hopefully pics tomorrow.

Same here, I do both vegan and non-vegan

I ordered my coconut oil (meant to order 1 gallon from amazon, ended up with 5 gallons) Shea butter, cocoa butter, sweet almond oil, clays, essential oils, lye, and some others because I get to stay home for a few weeks thanks to my latest project that took me 9.5 months to complete. he had to...

Vkumdini, actively researching all that goes into soapmaking is better in my book than jus going "I'm gonna make soap and give it to ppl for the holidays" at least some research is being done. I was once very new and thought soap would be a great gift but I ended up making some and liking it...

Lol yeah it's the people who are like "hmm coconut soap sounds like something I could do, does anyone have a recipe?" Then I hafta pitch in and tell em that there is no set recipe and every recipe is unique, additionally that a 100% CO soap at a 20% SF is NOT fully saponified. I usually just...

You are scrolling through another forum and people bring up soapmaking for the holidays, and ask for a "recipe" and you hafta just sit there and be like, soapmaking is not cheap, it's a super expensive hobby, and if you're gonna make soap commit to it and get the right tools. Sorry just a...

Lbrown thanks for the tip! You too snappy! Dana I'll have to check them out! I'm good on my base oils and lye it really is the colorants and FO/EO I need to be far more available...shipping is killing me!!!

Thanks guys! In relation I'm looking for a tommy girl type dupe if there is one and an aqua di gio dupe... I'm trying to make Xmas soaps!!!

Beautiful!

That's ok when I first started soaping I was HPing a batch of soap and thought it would be smart to add apple cider syrup to my emulsified oils, it volcanoed everywhere even onto my chin (safety equipment is my friend) and then seized. Excellent learning experience for sure. Not only was it a...

Just got done molding my loaf of spa/salt bars....yay I can cut soon...more exciting was the fact that I used my new mold!!!

Any one else feel free to correct me if I'm mistaken, but it sounds like when you added the lye you superheated the sugar. Usually when I use a simple syrup I will make it in advance (in my case I master batch and freeze in ice cube trays) Then I will work with it the same way I might work...

I'm actually in the middle of making more of my own molds...a new design but one I think is pretty functional

My favorite size is a short, wide soap 3.5x2x1 or 2.5x2.75x1.25 which is just tidier and slightly more square Of course I allow for both flat tops and piped/designed tops as well