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Wow, your chocolate scent stayed all year. I want to make something like this too. I have a chocolate mint FO I've been wanting to use. And I want to add dark chocolate to it too. That is a great idea! I have also heard of the benefits of dark chocolate too. Some specialty spas use...

Such pretty soaps! I have not tried layering any soaps yet. After seeing these beautiful batches, I really want to give it a try now. :P

I also use coconut milk powder. I add at trace along with fresh aloe vera gel. My soap just finished curing and I've used it as a facial soap as well. Nice little bubbles and leaves my skin very soft. :)

On my recent trip to Whole Foods, I picked up Spectrum Organic Shortening. This shortening is made from organic palm oil. The label on the container said it was from a sustainable farm in Columbia. They cost about $7 for 24 oz. You can also find them at shoporganic.com On a side...

Re: Brambleberry I agree. I wanted to make a purchase a while back and used their shopping cart, paying thru Paypal (from their website). I didn't hear from them about my order and decided to contacted them via email. I then got an email saying they have no record of my order. Yet my...

Melt and Pour Recipes from Soap Center. They are full of info/recipes. The internet has lots of recipes, if you do a good search. :) Here's one I like to try soon: Orange Peel Oatmeal MP Soap © Ardy Nelson 4 ounces Clear Melt and Pour Soap 1 T.Old Fashioned Oatmeal 1/4 t...

I was reading about these new caffeinated soap and really want to try it out soon. I think you can do both, CP and MP. But MP would be a better way to go.... i.e., get a clear glycerine M&P base and mix in the No Doz, Jet Alert or 200 milligrams of caffeine and pour into mold. :)

I saw these at Think Geek and thought it would make a nice Halloween or pirate soap mold. :) Bone Chillers Ice Tray $5.99 "Soft food-safe flexible silicon rubber cranks out 4 skulls and 4 crossbones just as fast as your freezer can freeze them."

I don't know much about Palm Olein oil, except that it's use for frying/cooking oil. I would probably plug it in as Palm Oil or Palm Kernal, since it's seem to be closer than Fractionated coconut. Or you can find the SAP value of Palm Olein oil and do your own calculations. I am also...

If you have a big aloe plant, just take the inside (gel) and use about 1 tbs per pound of soap at trace. That's what I did with my last batch. But if you have the small variety, you can just blend the whole leaf until it becomes a juice. Add at trace. Some people would use aloe juice...

Wow! Those are pretty looking soaps. Watch out, I think Kitty wants to eat them too. :D

I just tried adding 1 tps of coconut milk powder to my latest batch at trace. Also added 1 tps of fresh aloe vera gel. 24 hours later, I noticed that the center is very oily while the edges have all harden up . Is this normal? :? Everything esle looks OK. I will cut it later tonite and...

There are some beauty line that uses all things with olive oil and they are successful. So it must be working for some people. Once I read that jojoba oil was good for the face, I started using it and a week later started getting little pimples on my face. I stopped using it right away...

I have been doing some reading about infusing herbs into oils too. Here's what I've found so far: Soapnaturally.org, "Cold pressed oil that has good shelf life qualities include: Jojoba, macadamia and high-oleic sunflower oil are all suitable for herbal infused oils." Coconut and sweet...

I'm not a fan of how tea tree oil smells too. I have two bottles of tea tree oil and have still NOT want to work with it yet. the smell is just so strong! But when I do try it and I really do want to try it (now) after reading about the blends. For my next soap batch, I will blend...

Congrats on your fist batch and on making successful swirls. :D On my first batch, I didn't have palm oil around and made one using coconut oil, olive oil, safflower oil, and canola oil..... Probably too much soft oils for my batch, but it turned out pretty good. So I think your bar...

Thanks Becky. I was thinking the same thing too. Much too soft to be a good bar. I think I'll start off with the regular milk based soap recipe before trying this version. :)

I saw this recipe from Elaine Whilte's soapmaking page and was curious about this recipe. She said adding an extra cup of cold milk would double up the bars. Wow. Is it possible? I want to believe it could work, but I wanted to see if anyone has really tried anything like this before...

Meyenberg's Powder Goat milk are found at most grocery stores in California.

Do avoid any fragrances and essential oils too. There are enough toxic substances in the world that babies have to deal with already. It's best to give them a nice pure soap. I did notice that soapmakers like to make baby soaps with oils infused with or contain calendula petals. And...