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Hey all, So recently I've taken to making salt bars - just before lockdown I found a lot of very, very cheap coconut oil on sale locally so it seemed like the right thing to do 😎 Now, I made a salt loaf for the first time around a year ago (80% CO, 15% OO, 5% Castor, with 50% of oil weight as...

Hi all! Just a simple question for those of you who use arrowroot in your lotion bars/body butters: How much do you prefer to use? I've had a look around and seen usage rates all the way from 1/16th tsp to 2 tbsp per 100g! I'll of course be having a play about myself - but what do you...

So naturally I forgot to update :rolleyes: standard, lol Buuuut after 2 days I was greeted with this: Boo and hiss >:( I'm wondering now if it isn't ash at all - looks more like the bloom you get on old chocolate! Thoughts? :(

Great stuff as always Dee & Mobjack - So my second attempt is: Again, 100% coconut oil at 20% superfat, so hopefully will heat up enough to gel and no excess lye Poured at a light-medium trace instead of the emulsion I poured at last time (would have gone thicker but it barely filled the...

I think they were in there for about 24 hours, I used 100% coconut so they'd be nice and hard (some of the moulds are quite intricate considering the size) is coconut considered quite prone to ashing? I'm honestly not sure what to think as they were completely covered in it as I took them out 🤔...

'ello all, hope you're having a great Easter ;) My gripe for the week - I have these little silicone ice cube trays I picked up cheap from a charity shop about a year ago with fun shapes, and wanted to use them to make CP embeds Now a year ago I had no problem. They came out great. It's a...

A few hours? Days? Weeks, even? Anyone had any experience CPOPing even after your batch has hardened? I've got some colours that might need rescuing with a short stint in the oven lol :D

Hi all! So I've got a CP soap planned for tomorrow that has some peppermint scented embeds throughout (I thought the soap dough I used was unscented but alas, I was wrong), so I could do with a blend that would work with the peppermint and not end up smelling like soap layered with toothpaste...

Please bear with my garbled question, I've not had my coffee yet but wanted to ask the question before I forget :D I've finally got some annatto seeds, and I have a buttery-yellow swirl planned for my next soap My question - if I added some infused olive oil to a portion of my batter...

Not nearly as bad as I thought it was gonna be! Already lost a fair amount of the scent unfortunately, but it still smells good if you get close enough haha I quite like the looks of the chunks that didn't quite break up when I added the colourant - it looks like bananas! Kinda wish I'd...

Slow trace recipe - yup (65% liquid oils!), though I may try this at some point with full olive oil as an experiment, to see if it's a bit easier to work with Soap cool - I should probably invest in a thermometer lol, but from what I can tell I'm fairly close to room temp Puree to oils - yup, I...

You hit the nail on the head there! I ended up cutting after 7 hours (!) and it was on the harder side of what I'd like to cut - blew my mind cause that recipe normally takes at least 48 hours to be hard enough to come out of the mould unscathed! I think you're right about tabletop HP - It's...

I wanted to have a go at a 'banana bread soap' like this one I found on my internet travels: http://bullesetmolecules.blogspot.com/2012/04/banana-bread-soap.html Used my basic high-olive recipe as I know cinnamon leaf oil can accelerate like hell, added about an ounce of banana puree blended...

Hi all, I'm the kind of soaper who is constantly forgetting to add their fragrance to their batch and ends up glopping back into the bowl to remix it in. It's chronic, I hate it :D Hard to forget the colourant though! So, I was thinking, instead of using water/oils from the batch to disperse...

Hi all, Thinking up some floral / fresh blends (I'm super stoked for spring to come rolling round, feels like it's been winter forever, amirite?) and thought this sounds like a nice blend - anyone got any ideas on the ratios? I know you're gonna say "just try it out and see" but unfortunately...

Hello all, I've done a lot of reading on soap dough, and had a couple of quesitons that I couldn't find the answers to on my internet adventures :D Fragrance - can I knead fragrance/essential oils into the dough on a project-by-project basis? From what I can see people either add fragrance to...

Hi all, So I went and splashed out on some unrefined cocoa butter for lotion bars cause I want that beautiful chocolatey scent But - disaster! I'm melting it, and melting it, and melting it in a double boiler for half an hour and there are still crystals. I fish some out as that doesn't seem...

Hi all, I came across this product: https://moodessentialoils.co.uk/products/comforting-essential-oil-set-vanilla-coconut-and-coffee And was under the impression that you couldn't really get essential oils from these plants. Or if you could, they were extremely expensive. Am I wrong? This...

Sorry, didn't explain myself properly after all! So I would put, for example: Saponified Plant Oils (Olive, Coconut, Shea, Castor) Not selling as of yet, just giving to friends and family

Hi all! I want to start doing some nice labels for my soaps, but getting everything onto such a small label is proving to be a bit tricky (I only do small bars so far) - I don't want to make the font too small to read! I've started putting things like "Essential oils (Lavender, Bergamot...