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Wire cheese cutter Hello Magia, That sounds fantastic - will get hold of one a.s.a.p. I am in Kokstad and the closest Pick n Pay would be Port Shepstone or Pietermaritzburg. Thanks for that info and glad to see another South African soapcrafter on this site. This is still quite new to me...

Hello Bubbles Galore, Would that be Tortuga Soap? I went onto the site and saw that it was closed for a while. Will contact them again in a couple of days. Thanks for that information and $30 won't break the bank. Kind regards Carol-Ann

Hello Jenny, I think you have a very good product there and it looks professional!!! What will you charge to make one like that? It sounds dreadful to have to pay soooo much for a bought one as Artisan pointed out, and by the time you get it here to South Africa, you have gone bunkrupt! I...

Which cutter is best? Hello, Thanks for your replies. So it sounds as if the wire cutter is the best. Presumably there is a website called 'Tortuga Soaps' who sells these cutters? I buy a lot of my ingredients from a store in New Zealand, and post to South Africa relatively fast, but they...

Hello, Could you please advise which soap cutter works the best - a wire cutter or a wooden box scraper/cutter? My aim is to have identical, straight, even, neat edges etc. At the moment I have a homemade one and I have to trim quite a bit before I am satisfied. Thanks Carol-Ann

Soap in fridge Hello all, Thanks for all your helpful tips. I am dying to ask this question. Does the fridge soap look any different from the normal wrapped one (without the oil oozing of course).? If it looks just as beautiful either way, then why don't we just put the soap in the fridge...

Good bar Hello, Although there was oil on the top of the soap, I actually did not have to cut it off - I just wiped it off carefully. The rest of the soap turned out to be a bit oily but surely the most beautiful soap I have made - the 3 different coloured layers one with fine chamomile etc...

Oozing Oil! Good day, Thanks for your mail and describing exactly what to do with the soap mold in the fridge etc. Is it safe to say I can put all molds in the fridge or not? I have noticed that all the oozing soaps I have made and there was another yesterday, had Sunflower oil in the...

Oil oozing from Honey soap Good day, Thanks for your reply. Then what should I do, just leave the blankets off or what do you suggest? The recipe says all the most fantastic things about the soap, but nothing about these problems which could be encountered. Kind regards Carol-Ann

Good day, I made a 'lovely' honey soap yesterday - thought it had too much coconut, so brought the percentage down to 20% as you said and added the balance to oilve and Palm. On opening the mould it was obvious that the recipe was far too oily. Oil oozing out of it. What went wrong? Recipe...

Good day, Castille and Bastille. These are new words to me but I am learning fast! One of my previous forum replies mentioned a Bastille soap with 2 oils only i.e. Olive at 75% and Castor at 25% and the other was 100% Olive for the Castille. I would like to know what colour would this...

Lye Discount - Carol-Ann Good morning, I agree it is a lot of oils - I want a luxurious nourishing moisturising and hard bar of soap. That recipe is called "Memememe Luxury Bar" distributed by 'Teach Soap.com" In the original there are even more oils , I don't have palm kernel oil which is...

Time to play Hello, Just a quick correction the calculator I put my recipes through is actually called 'Suds n Scents'. I must be going off my head! My apologies. Carol-Ann

Time to play Good day, Yes I also think what I want is more water in my recipe. I put all my recipes through the 'Soap n Suds' calculator and this is the recipe. Cocoa butter and Shea butter and Avocado all 5%, i.e. 45.36 gms each, Castor Oil 3%, i.e. 27.21 gms, Coconut 20%, i.e. 181.4 gms...

Good day, At the moment I am working on a 5% discount but heard somewhere that working at a 10 or 15% or even higher,with less lye would give you more time to do the colouring, fragrancing etc. Is that correct? I am really confused now because all recipes I have followed is usually 5%...

Good day, Please tell me whether if I work to a 10 or 15 or 20% discount I will have more time to work and do the finer things which I so badly want to do to the soap before I pour it into the moulds? Just recently I was told of working to a 40% discou nt - never heard of that before. I find...

Fragrance and seizing Thank you all you wonderful people. The best bit of advice is to add the fragrance to the oils before you add the lye - 2 replies mentioned that, so I will give it a try. I love a lot of fragrance in my soaps but because of the bad incident with OMH, I am so afraid it...

Good day, I am quite new to CP soap making and seem to learn something new each time I make a new recipe. However, my tried and trusted recipe seized on me after I added 'Oatmeal, Milk and Honey' fragrance oil. What a scramble!!! The soap looks great, a ginger colour, almost translucent -...