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thank you ladies!!! It's now heating up nicely...I used lavender EO and the smell isn't too bad. It was 150g wine then 97g ccn milk in the end. I NOW see what the talk is about the volcano effect...had a couple of little fizzes. And I did do it in the sink paillo!! :wink: I added the lye into...

well decided to go for it and will hopefully be careful enough with the lye mixing will let you know!! thanks!! btw Hazel did you add any sugar or salt to boost the suds? I decided to go for a small amt of ccn oil; lard , palm and a dash of castor with the wine and ccn milk....stay tuned :)

has anyone tried a wine and milk (instead of water) mixture for their soap? I'd like to make a batch tomorrow with some red wine and I love my creamy wine soaps but have some left over ccn milk in the fridge...think it's worth a go? :?

I was referring to any sort of plastic wrap but I guess I'll stick to coloured paper etc. to wrap for gifts! thanks for the replies.

I've been keeping my soaps in shoe boxes til I'm ready to give/use them. I've seen so many videos and articles suggesting wrapping them in plastic to extend their shelf life!...confused :? :!: I'm assuming after they're cured and I want to give them away in say a couple of weeks it'd be...

.Perfect for Soapmaking, That's amazing because I've had sooooo many doubtful responses to using my soaps because of the caustic soda!! There was a wonderful program on a natural business and their success..the owner was asked if he used lye in his products he laughingly responded that there...

BRAVO!! I can see I need to actually learn alot more about soap in general!! Do these 'forms' of the oils help preserve their shelf life why they just don't use straight forward oils? Or just cheaper?

but where's the soap!!!! :P.....ahhhhhh...but those would be 'real' products!! :wink: I know exactly how you feel but we can't get into the vegetarian/animal debate here...I have to make a veggie soap for my sister as she won't touch anything with animal like ingredients!!! I'm sorry because...

yes they do have Walmarts in LA (don't think folks could live without it :D ). When you use the walmart brand do you use the same sap value at 0.1369? or just use the new crisco on the soapcalc? thanks alot...I'm really looking forward to trying it! In La la land I should be able to get my...

Is anyone still there?!? I've made soap but never a lotion bar...sounds wonderful. Do you just melt your oils/butters on the stove and pour it into a mold like the soap ? then cut.....

about the chocolate box inserts...there are some awfully flimsy ones that probably wouldn't hold up but the nicer ones do have sturdierer inserts.... they fall into the one off category though....you can always just use one part of the insert as an experiment and make sure you have it on a tray...

I was dying for a proper wooden mold (not in my budget at all!!!)when I went to a craft store that sells all sorts of wooden boxes and I found for 4.99 euros a long rectangular wooden box with several removable dividers!! If I leave the center divider in , each side of the mold makes ten regular...

Hang in there!! My husband and daughter weren't my favourable critics by any means but now hubby is quick to tell me which one he DOES like! and my daughter loves a plain lard with oatmeal bar with a dash of honey! She claims she's washing her hands with cream but loves it now. And it's taken...

yikes!! thanks...just googled it on kathy miller's site (and a couple of other sites) and the sap value given for Crisco is 0.1369 for lye crystals...won't be making it til Feb. so.....we'll see thanks for the help! :D .

ok...been out of the country too long...are there different types of Crisco? I'd use a blend of oils but thought there was only ONE kind of Crisco! also to Seifenblasen I was under the impression if you use Castor oil it's best to use it as a support for your existing oils and not as a main...

me either BUT..... that doesn't answer my question!!! Is it about 20-30 minutes?

ladies, a question on blending...I live overseas and am visiting my mother in Calif. and am dying to try soaping with good ol Crisco I'm sure I can borrow a scale from someone and but the thought of actually buying a stick blender seems silly. Now how long do you think it'd take the soap to...

thanks!!!

ooh! forgot to ask! is it alright to use 'regular' soap embeds in salt soap? i have a recipe with 70% cc, 10% castor and 20% grapeseed that I'd like to try to use embeds in. What do you think? Do I need to do anything special like spraying with alcohol if I'm using shaped embeds? Do you simply...

do embeds need to cure before using them? thanks!