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If working with more than one color, I will mix my oils and lye until just emulsified, separate out the amount of mixture I want for each color, add the color and then bring the soap to trace. If making soap just one color, you can add your color to the oils before the lye if you want, since...

Thank you Stinkydancer! I hope the mold is making beautiful soaps for you!

Purple ultramarine with a titch of blue ultramarine makes a really nice purple. :)

Welcome to the best addiction in the world! :)

Pomace olive oil and regular olive oil are completely different from one another, and they can't be substituted without tweaks to the recipe. I tried recently. It was disaster! I usually use regualr olive. When I used pomace I got soap on a stick, because it traces sooooooo much faster. I had...

This forum is a great place to ask for help! The people here are really nice! Did you perhaps buy lactic acid (sodium lactate) to help create a harder bar of soap? That's what I use it for. If you add one teaspoon per one pound of soap into your lye water, it helps make your soaps harder.

the trick to avoiding bubbles is to pour your oils into the soaping vessel over a spatula or something similar without pouring straight in. Do the same with the lye. Burp your blender and don't gel too fast. These things will make your bubbles history. :)

I haven't run your recipe through a lye calculator, but a lot of your oils are very soft oils and will result in a soft soap. To make this soap work, I believe you would have to use a stronger lye solution. I make soap high in soft oils and I use a 50/50 solution. Your oils combined with your...

Me too! But at least it's better than that other kind of envy! :lol:

Your FB looks great! You should give lessons. :) I'm off to like you, too...

Thank you everyone! I've been so busy lately I haven't gotten to be on the forum much. The benefit is coming soon. Let's hope we can raise some $$$!

So astoundingly beautiful! You are one truly talented lady!!!

Thank you everyone! :D

This is your first try? Your soaps are amazing!

Thank you soapcakes. I hope it does, too!

Today I decided to experiment a bit with swirls. I wanted something bright and cheery. For this I used POP! micas tangerine, lemon drop, blueberry, and grape with titanium dioxide for a white contrast. Here's another: I did this by alternating all the colors in the bowl in layers, like...

I don't think anyone really knows. There's only speculation. It's sad, though. They were truly awesome soap colorants!

Weird indeed! I've never had it happen, but I've heard this can happen when stearic binds together in soap? Maybe it's stearic spots? Did you use a lot of palm? Maybe that with the shea was too much stearic?

Thank you! :) Activated charcoal is what I use for black, too. It's wonderful, stays deep and true black, and doesn't bleed onto a washcloth. I miss my POP's. I hope I can find a good replacements for all of the colors. The neon's are great, too. They just don't have the pizzazz and shine...

Look at it this way... At least yours was too soft and can be rebatched. :) Mine was a lost cause. I literally had to dig my stick blender out of it! :shock: