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Good Point. Safety first, I agree it can't be stressed enough. I do wear goggles and gloves for this and I don't whisk fast, it's more of a stir than a whisking. I use a whisk so the mix doesn't gain any momentum in the jug. If you used a spoon the whole thing would start moving and the...

First know which kind you have: Water or Oil Soluable\ For Water: Put your TD into your lye/water right after you have mixed in your lye. I use a whisk in a tall juice jug so not to have any splash. First I whisk the lye, then I whisk the TD. The idea is not to beat the lye, just whisk...

How to Mix Titanium Dioxide First know which kind you have: Water or Oil Soluable\ For Water: Put your TD into your lye/water right after you have mixed in your lye. I use a whisk in a tall juice jug so not to have any splash. First I whisk the lye, then I whisk the TD. The idea is not...

It's still pretty Even though it's not what you wanted, it is still really pretty. How does it smell? Is it too soon to tell? Sygrid

It is time to quit apologizing for all your soapmaking efforts by putting your products into stores on consignment. I am a store owner and if an someone comes into the store and offers me her products on consigment I wonder why she feels her products aren't as good as the ones I buy outright...

Did you try Soap Basics? Here is the link: http://www.soapbasics.co.uk/ sygrid

Beautiful colour combo So rich...very nice sygrid

What colourant did you use for Santa's Pipe? I really like it. It looks like gingerbread to me. Even though not red, it looks great. Sygrid

Love it I just LOVE yellow soap and this one is really pretty. Wow...I would have thought more orange with the carrot. Nicely done Sygrid

Rosey! These bars are all cp. Coconut, palm and tallow for the white ones, I wanted to keep them as white as possible so added Titanium Dioxide to the lye water to brighten up the coconut and palm. The dark bars are coconut, palm, olive, apricot and castor. Pretty basic but a nice...

The dark bars are Pinetar with 100% coconut cp shred mixed in for extra lather. I softened the Pinetar smell with Peppermint and Spearmint EO's and they still have a bit of a whiff of it, but overall fresh and icy. The light bars are also Peppermint EO/Spearmint EO blend...hmmmm... I'd better...

I love yellow soap and these are really pretty.

Just beautiful. Love the consistancy of the swirl all the way to the bottom of the bars....nicely done :)

I can't even imagine how incredible that must smell...what we need is an 'olfactory forum' to go along with all the incredible pics :D

Those look great, I would love to try the coffee butter, my suppliers up here don't seem to have it, could you let me know who does? Thanx Sygrid

I love the blue, even if it was supposed to be green. Nicely done.

Thanx Everyone, now (thanx to carebear) I can post some pics and they actually show up. Making these soaps was easy comparatively :shock:

Here are the cut bars... The depth isn't too bad I guess,but do you know what I mean? I wanted the colour right down to the bottom of the bars. This is a shot of them all standing up on their short sides. Sygrid

I was disappointed with the depth of colour in this batch. In this batch the colour only dropped about half way thru the bars. I used an fo that I was not familiar with and it accelerated trace. I couldn't keep my batch at a light enough trace for the swirl to drop thru to the bottom. These...

I melted it with my oils to about 150 F. But maybe you're right. Heat the Peru first then add it to the oils. It's almost pine tar consistancy, and after the batch was poured some was left unmixed in the bottom of the pot. It's pretty heavy I suspect and just settled right to the bottom ...