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Shunt covered it nicely so I have nothing else to add.

I like using the spent grain/hops used for making the beer for an exfoliate.

I think they both have their place. You can do things with each that the other can't do.

It is really easy to cut a log with a wire cutter and not worrying about trying to get the soap out cleanly. Plus gelled soap is easier to pull out.

Okay that is cool! Depending on the cost I would love to have one.

Label it as Goat Milk because you will have water in there which reconstitutes the milk.

You can drop the stearic straight out without changing anything because with the Stearic that is going to be one thick lotion, more like a light cream which would be hard to go through a lotion pump. I would drop the ewax to 11 grams though and see if you like the consistency because with the...

Well at least not in the 1st batch ;)

It should be just fine. As for your clay, we usually use kaolin or bentonite clays. You want one a clay as fine as possible.

You don't need stearic acid in lotion as long as you use 5% emulsifying wax.

Congrats to you both Craig!

If you would like to go, Americans are welcomed and you will get to see Susuan Barclay-Nichols of SwiftCraftyMonkey fame, as well as Ariane Arsenault plus many others. you wouldn't be able to come as a member as membership is limited to Canadians but you are welcome.

You have a month before the 6 month finance plan for the First Annual Conference in Banff disappears. You don't want to miss out on this affordable way to go to your own conference.

I find all soap lathers better at warmer temperatures. I find that cream soap does not give you big bubbles unless you add a surfactant and even then you will find that the lather ends up being more creamy than big bubbles but it would start out with the first bubbles being bigger due to the...

I really don't know. I don't know if it is in his book or one of his writings. In all fairness it may have come from somewhere else but it seems to me to be Dunn. I'll try to backtrack and find that. AND I could even be wrong - I know that would be rather shocking, but it could happen.:lolno...

Thank you Coffeetime. As for the water percentage once cured I think I read it in something Dunn wrote, but I would have to backtrack to get that information again. I did learn something new today. If you are using EU Trivial names then they need to be bilingual.

The glycerin is adding a conditioning agent to the cream soap without diminishing the lather to the same degree as that amount of oil would. The stearic acid is truly the backbone of cream soap so you don't want to eliminate it in the recipe. Play with the percentages to see if you find a level...

Totally agree. I too am an aromatherapist and I find that the oils I get from NDA or most of the other soap suppliers to be of the same grade as my expensive supplier. Anyone claiming their oils are therapeutic either don't know what they are talking about, which would worry me. Then there...

Coffeetime, the Guild is going with it being listed as best practices. I spoke to HC and they said anything that is present in the finished product including what is a by-product from the process should be listed on your labels.. I asked specifically about the glycerin that is produced and...

LOL Yeah depending on what I'm making and what the end use is I will do a 20% superfat for the conditioning and it creates a nice creamy lather. I've got some I need to check on that is 4 years old. That is going to be some amazing soap.