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How do you find markets / craft fairs to sell your soaps and other products? There are several Saturday Markets nearby -- within half an hour drive, but all I have found already have several soapers. One market only allows 40 vendors and has 4 soapers each week. One larger market has more...

Thank you both for the tips!!!! Good video on making a quick, simple soap mold. I'm just learning about M&P. Quite different from hp and cp.

Thank you. After posting, I thought it would be better to use hot glue at the seams rather than just tape. Maybe I'll line with freezer paper the first time, and dribble a little on the corrugated plastic to see if it comes off easily before trying an unlined mold. Thanks for the suggestions.

Thank you for letting me know! Sorry for the delay. I just saw your response.

I'd like to make a small loaf mold from a corrugated plastic sheet. I've never worked with melt & pour. I thought about just taping the mold together since it will be small -- about 1.5" x 1.5" x 8". Will I need to line the plastic sheet mold with butcher paper, as I normally do for hp and cp...

:lol: I thought your rebatch was very pretty --- until you mentioned the 1950's linoleum floor. I still think your soap is pretty though.

Beautiful!

Thank you, DeeAnna. On the heat and hold for soap, I was talking about trying it for CP, with the idea that it might decrease the risk of DOS. I haven't done enough CP recently to know if DOS would even be a problem with my recipes, environment. I've never seen it with any of my HP soaps, and...

Until recently, I have always (~25 year) made hot process soap, and have never experienced DOS. I'm now starting to experiment with CP to try some techniques that have been difficult to impossible with HP. Until I started with CP, I had never even heard of DOS. I wondered if the extended period...

:lol: on the cats! I have stumbled over kitties more than once, but thankfully, I wasn't carrying lye or hot oils. The first thing we are going to do is build floor to ceiling shelves on two walls. Hoping to find a used baker's rack for curing soap. Currently, soap is scattered throughout the...

I would not like having closets with doors, either. Even with that, looks like you have quite a bit of storage space. Do you melt your oils in the kitchen, and then take them to your soap room to work? Our house is a split level, and I'm sure I'd trip over the dog sooner or later if I had to do...

I'm so glad you started this thread! I've used my kitchen as my "soap room" all these years, but my husband now wants to turn half of our den into a soap room for me, and the rest into a big pantry/general storage room, which will also provide more room for molds and extra supplies. We've been...

I generally use only tallow with the pine tar in HP, so I wanted to see what would happen using the same recipe (minus the SL and yogurt). I have a good supply of free grass-fed beef fat for tallow, so that's what I use most. I love soaps made with all (or mostly) tallow, but that wasn't such a...

I have always made pine tar soap using hot process, but after reading so many threads and articles about how fast it moves and how difficult it is to work with, I decided to make a cold process batch today. NEVER AGAIN!:eek: What a difference!!! This was stiffer than my stiffest hp soaps. I...

Same here. Every recipe. I use different oils and different recipes. Sometimes all olive oil, or all tallow, or different combinations of different oils. Recipe doesn't matter. It always goes through those stages, whether I use a crock pot or a double boiler. I usually go to a light or medium...

When I do hot process really hot (fluid hot process, starting with oils at 200 degrees F), I often hardly notice the stages because it moves SO FAST! Different recipes behave differently. When I cook at lower temperatures, I notice every stage very clearly. I've always heard that "separation...

I am also interested in a pound or so.

Here's my thought, which is probably irrelevant here since I do Hot Process when I make pine tar soap, and you are probably doing CP. The recipe on the Nerdy Farm Wife is 75% liquid oil. My bars seem to stay a little on the soft and sticky side for several months if I go over 55% liquid oils...

Yes, I often see it looking like pictures 2 - 5 at different times. That's normal in HP. If it stays the same for too long, I give it a quick stir and check the temperature because sometimes what's under the surface is quite different. I like that it happens IN the POT :thumbs:, rather than...

Check your temperature before deciding that the crock pot is the problem. I have a small one that I use for test batches, and a large one for main batches. That big one gets much hotter, but I have just learned to adjust it. I keep it on warm once my oils are melted. Also, when I hot process...