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I'm in New Zealand! Alas, I could have attended a conference in your city last week but I'd attended another conference the month before so didn't feel I could. But I understand you were relaxing in Bali so my trip would have been in vain anyway (apart from the important conference stuff ...) My...

Batch 8: 'Battle of the Greens' Twelve week update Apologies for my absence, life is rather full on at the moment, and even when I've had plans to make soap those have had to be overridden :( Also, the app isn't working for me currently and the website just overwrote the long linky message I...

I just can't even get my head around that that isn't edible ... Looks delicious, I mean .. delightful!

You'd only be helping her out, it's a service really! I wish I could help her out too... (Kidding, I got enough on my plate already, I just gotta make soap!) Can't wait to see what soapy goodness you create next!

Welcome, Brin. There are a few Kiwi's here, @KiwiMoose is the most famous and fantastic one :) Happy soaping!

Aww bless, at least you have a brilliant sense of humour @MGM! (Though usually you provide us superb results, like this one I just wanna eat!) Funnily enough, yellow oxide is super cheap here in Kiwiland as well so I have a double portion of it as well! I have used it to good effect though in...

I'm always impressed by your soaps, you produce such smooth HP soaps with light and beautiful swirls! Thank you for sharing!

Thanks for sharing these soaps, I love how crisp that pattern has come out in your Zany's Castille soap! I have CPOPed a lot of my soaps and 'top up' the temperature once or twice each time with no ill effects yet, but I haven't used many FOs. I sit the mould on a wooden chopping board, rather...

Wow, you are the perfect union of scientist and artist, reflecting and refining your design and techniques to so many satisfying conclusions .. I hope that one day I may be able to execute a soap with your patience, thought and skill! Thank you for sharing, I am in awe!

Batch #11: KiwiMoose's Soy Wax soap with Cacao butter and Calendula-infused Oil Yesterday I squeezed in a bit of time to bash out a batch of soap. I've had a jar with Calendula petals infusing in rice bran oil for a while now (7 weeks), sitting in a window that catches a lots of light, however...

It's been three weeks, feels like longer! I keep seeing all the wonderful soaps people are posting here and it makes me want to experiment further -- my soaps have been pretty basic so far, you can see what I've done so far here, and here is my latest: Calendula Infused Soap (with plain soap...

I made soap today (finally!) using the Calendula-infused RBO I've had sitting on the window sill for 7 weeks. Otherwise nothing fancy but good to get something in the mould again!

I am sad at the loss of your Daphne and Ylang Ylang soap, I remember the magical glycerine rivers creating heavenly halos, but this new soap is a cause for celebration! Congratulations, stunning work yet again!!

You are blazing through your soaping lessons, @Mobjack Bay! Keep up the brilliant work, and keep on sharing, it inspires me to push mine (a little) further too!

I use PVC non-slip mats for covering my soap airing racks and have not seen any ill effects so far (I'm 99% sure I saw PVC as an acceptable material for working with soap which was why I chose it), but @dibbles provides sound advice as always :) Can't wait to see what you create next!

It may not have gone to plan but looks like a nice result (to my poorly trained eye!) Sounds a good plan to give it a week before zap testing, hope it turns out nicely and you can get clean again after work!

Hallo @Aleja, a great educator on cosmetic chemistry is Susan Barclay Nichols of Swift Crafty Monkey. She has e-books available, but shares a great deal of information on her blog. A good starting page for information about shampoo bars is here and bath bombs here. You will need to subscribe to...

Welcome @Rembetissa! Congrats on making your first cold process soap, I hope you can share some photos of what you've been making sometime! There are some brilliant HP soapers here, great to have another (but keep up the CP as well!)

Aww, bless ya Dawn! That first green is supreme, and while the final colour has a tauntingly green cast to it (esp that far right bar, or maybe it's the lighting?) it ain't green. To be fair, neither are my green soaps, so we both learnt something! (One of my Greens is still hanging on by it's...

@Mobjack Bay turning out more beautiful soaps -- stunning!