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What is your idea of melting? Just wanting to gauge what you mean to help further.

Use cornstarch in mine and I don't make a paste. I just do a TBSP and dump it right in my hot oils while it is still in the double boiler, give it a really good stir until the clumps dissolve. I am sure it wouldn't hurt to mix it ahead of time, to each their own.

I think this might be it. Just googled landscape soap and it came up as the second result: http://www.greatcakessoapworks.com/handmade-soap-blog/index.php/tag/landscape-soap/ Very challenging!

Yay Fata! So lovely, you should really do a tutorial on how you got those lines so wispy!

I have no idea about the liners but yeah, it is not recommended to reuse the crockpot for food after you soaped in it. I would suggest checking the goodwill stores or thrift shop for cheap crockpots or even a garage or yard sale.

My entry. I layered the black and white and between each layer I sprinkled blue, yellow, and pink micas (the ones on top) and used a bartenders spoon to swirl with. Nothing fancy like some of the ones I saw.

Up! And I echo DWin, I want to take mine back. Holy cow there are some great designs! I'm like, huh? How? No way?!

Beautiful top! Sure the fragrance is delightful. I used to hate patchouli before I started soaping but it doesn't bother me too much now.

Well unmolded (which these are the first of my soaps to slide really easily out of the mold. Chalking that up to rubbing mineral oil on the silicone molds and sticking them in the oven to stay warm over night). The one that I intended to be the one I enter came out nice. Whether it will get me...

Hello all. I was wondering if I could get some thoughts on what some of you might think about making soap for private label. I was contacted through the soap guild by a local goat farm who is looking for someone to make goats milk soap bars for them. They are looking for 100-150, 5oz bars per...

I did two tonight just in case one isn't good but the other is. I should have water discounted my recipe because this took FOREVER to trace! If I was doing a drop swirl these would have been on point for that. Ah well. I heated up the oven for an hour and stuck them in and turned the oven off to...

That is poor customer service! In their eyes they think they are doing right because they responded to you and "offered" a discount code, a discount that doesn't cover the cost of the product nor the shipping. I think I can guess which supplier you speak of and I too on my last order from them...

Well throwing this one on here :( Eucalyptus soap. I had added ground up green Indian tea and added for a light exfoliant. I knew ahead of time that a lot of herbs added brown, but I didn't expect the to brown and expand. You can see the mica line and the bottom was a light green and above the...

Did mine tonight and it is sleeping as we speak. Not feeling confident about it though but I will see when I cut sometime this weekend. I still have time to make another if needed :)

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How are you doing the GM? Powdered or liquid? If liquid are toy freezing it before adding the lye to it? Also, how hot are you soaping?

I have never heard of "accidental HP" but I have only been soaping for a couple of years. Sounds to me like acceleration. Did you use any FO or EO? Also, milk will cause soap to overheat so that would explain it still giving off heat after a few hours even being outside in a blizzard. Most...

I was just thinking this the other day when I was looking at the ingredients list on a bottle of a baby lotion. It was the very last ingredient on the list and now it makes sense!

Thanks! I heart Susan. I searched on her blog for HLB and she breaks the math down (I hate math) but I am going to go through it and see if I can learn it on my own without spending $30.00 ($30.00 can buy some pretty FO's or mica :p)

Has anyone used this? If so, would you recommend it? http://www.lotioncrafter.com/hlb-calculator.html