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I used very little wax but I'm not sure exactly how much. Ah well, I don't imagine I'll be using it again. I'm a little disapointed to at the idea the wax may not be skin safe. The only reason it even occured to me to use it as it was suggested in one of my books. Pretty colours are nice and all...

Hi all. Sorry in advance for long post. :) Had my first go with coconut oil yesterday, was very excited about it. Had this idea of making a tea tree and eucalyptus soap and really wanted to colour it green. I have ordered some green colour from a UK based site after being horrified at the...

Hi all, I remember reading about using coconut milk by subtracting some quantity of water from the lye solution and then adding the same quantity of coconut milk at trace. If you do this will the soap develop a similar colour to that of soaps made using milk in the place of water or will the...

Thanks for the replies. :) I have put the green tea soap away again to allow it to dry out. Thanks for the feedback. Not sure what my next attempt will be. I have been forced into taking a short break from all this to move house, but I'll certainly post up whatever I make.

Hi there. I have made my first two batches of soap and one of them doesn't look quite right. It is made using a very simple recipe of vegetable shortening and water/sodium hydroxide. The soap itself seems ok but I used jasmine green tea in it and now it looks like this; It looks to me...