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So glad to hear about your daughter's business! Hope you are well.

I sometimes masterbatch and store that in large jugs. Then stick the jug in warm2hot water and swirl to mix. Not sure if it's the best way. But it works well when I've made a lot of one recipe.

Thank you Steve85569 and SusieOz! Tiger soap it shall be! I already gave it away to friends for use next month. So we shall see what they think. I'm trying to use up the colorants I had from last year - yellow, black, and brown are it for oxides!

Here's a photo of the top. I won't be able to cut into it for a few days. The blue and orange swirls are too light against the black oxide. View of top swirl View of swirl through side of container

Thank you Seawolfe and KristaY! It's a pretty swirl and I gave it my best. There are some problems with the execution of the swirl but I liked how it turned out. This community has been kind to me. I can't wait to be able to actually participate in the monthly contests! I love making soap and I...

I can't post on challenges yet but I wanted to try the swirl challenge for April. This is 85% Olive oil, 25% Castor Oil, with eucalyptus eo (added to base oils), 2.5:1 water:lye, and 5% SF. Contrasting colors are yellow oxide and black oxide. I made some big mistakes, namely, waiting to mix my...

Thank you! Thank you for your kind reply, KristaY

All tallow whipped soap 7%sf 5%sugar Scented with: Anise, wintergreen, peppermint, and spearmint essential oils. It floats!

Thank you for your kindness Carolyn Z, I'm sorry to hear about your daughter's illness but glad she's found something she can do for income and enjoyment. I tried to sell soap - I can make it but I can't sell it :)! I like the egg in this soap! I've not tried it before. I love Alton Brown and...

Good to know! Thanks for your reply, Carolyn Z! Soap is my way of playing lab since I have been sequestered at home with MS and seizures :). It was an idea to try and if you do ever try to do what I did, let me know! It's an interesting bar of soap - hard and already lathering after two days...

I'm disorganized! But I do screenshots a lot! I love soap calc. But, if I can't get to soap calc, I figure the recipe out on whatever paper is handy (receipts, opened envelopes), which my husband detests! Screenshots, good. Loose scraps of paper, bad...

This is one of my favorites:http://www.soapqueen.com/bath-and-body-tutorials/tips-and-tricks/lori-novas-top-ten-essential-oils-2/

I didn't add extra lye. I made mayonnaise using Alton Brown's recipe accounting for 7 oz of OO in the recipe. It was a little soupy because I heavy handed the oil as I added :). I then whipped the white and whipped the mayonaise into that (back to a pretty foamy/firm consistency). I made my lye...

I made an all Olive oil soap at 7% sf. Whipped oil with egg yolk, mustard, and vinegar then whipped in egg white. Added sugar to water, then lye. Added wintergreen eo and then slowly poured cooled lye water into Olive oil emulsion and whipped to thick. Made a nice soap.

Thank you all! Great thread, great responses! After reading through, I have a great liquid soap. Thanks again!!

Stearic acid There are many saturated fatty acids. The main one I use separately to add to soap for hardening is stearic acid. There's also palmitic, myristic, and caprylic (I believe off the top of my head). In harder oils and butters I have seen spots in my soap due to, I think, areas of...

With making milk soaps by adding lye to cold/frozen milk I have come to always filter this solution through a fine mesh sieve before adding lye phase to oil phase. Anymore, I make a 50/50w solution lye/distilled water and make up remaining liquid by weight with cold milk/beer/juice (whatever)...

Spots in Soap Personal Experience I have seen spots due to: 1. Titanium dioxide speckling - not mixing in well enough 2. Probable Stearic acid spots - not melting stearic acid or hard oils (I've used palm and tallow) completely into oil phase. 3. Lye spots - looks crystalline and soap bars...

I have tried 33% coconut soap flakes with 67% glycerin. Makes a fairly transparent(enough to read 14 pt font through 1/4 in piece) but the soap weeps/sweats like mad