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Monday at 10:07 PM 1. Future_Ghost - I’m game 2. Vicki C - I’ve never tried this but YES! 3. MrsZ - I don't know if I can pull it off, but I'd like to try! 4. The Phoenix - Whee!!! 5. Tara_H - got to squeeze this in! 6. The_Emerald_Chicken - Slightly intimidated, but down for an attempt! 7...

We have been cleaning/clearing out the basement readying for our kitchen renovation (was supposed to happen in May) and I am trying to sneak in my batch this month. I have a stove and fridge in the basement for soaping and that is becoming my kitchen for 12 weeks. We could grill if it ever...

@Vicki C Yes, I was stunned by how absolutely beautiful that soap was.

Sign up list: 1. Spowers - this is right up my alley - love 'unchallenges'! 2. KimW -awe man - With summer in full swing I was going to sit out July's, but can't resist a chance to lessen my load of soap shavings! 3. Phoenix - I have just the design in mind! 4. Tara_H - Confettipalooza! 5. Mrs...

Congratulations everyone and thank you @szaza for hosting such an inspiring challenge

When I was starting out and had my first batch go awry you were encouraging so I am sending the good vibes back. My soap turned out okay and yours will too!

Been there, done that!

I turn 60 later this year and I feel every minute of it. Just wait until your eyes are so bad you have to wear your glasses with a 10x power mirror to tweeze the chin hair.

I saw this discussion and I thought I was nuts, at least others around me think I am nuts. I am so sensitive to bedding. I am like the princess in the princess the pea. I have to sleep on ultra soft smooth sheets and I don't mind paying for them. Same with a duvet. I am a burrower and I...

Personally I enter my good, bad and fugly. To me it is all a learning experience. My entry has what I think are glycerin rivers or a reaction with the alcohol I sprayed the embeds with. Not sure what the curvy lighter colored lines are but I entered anyway. When I did my 12 months of entries...

In garden colors muddy is the new black!

I am an avid gardener and I thought about a slab with my lilies, Russian icing tip roses, butterflies and delphinium, but the secret ingredient had me stumped. Then I had an epiphany, TOMATOES🍅! I grow at least 20 varieties each year, I can salsa, whole tomatoes, freeze purée! They are my...

Lemon juice and potato juice shouldn't be added to MP. Sometime if you overheat when melting it it will harden very quickly. You need to keep the base under 150 degrees F, 65 degrees C. If you want a lemon smelling soap try adding Lemongrass Essential Oil. I am not sure about the safe...

Okay the entries so far are so nice! I unmolded mine today. It came out like the vision in my head but I definitely went in a different direction.

Yes, The GV is only 48oz. @RDak linked to something similar in large quantities.

Yes, my sister has hers attached to a pump. I just put mine on an old table.

The floor drain was right by the bottom of the stairs and would have been a major trip hazard so I set the dehumidifier high and let it drain into the utility sink.

I cure mine on basements racks, covered in cheesecloth. I run a dehumidifier (into a sink) to keep the humidity at 45%. When I need room on the racks I store the cured soap in shoe boxes inside a cupboard in the basement,

I keep a three ring binder with the soap recipes in binder sheets and loose leaf paper to date and note each batch's, FO, recipe, additives, colorants. The notes about the recipes I write on the recipe sheets themselves.

Give it a long cure time and it will get better. Just a hint, lard makes a great soap and it isn't expensive. You could do 40% lard, 23% coconut, 7% castor, and 30% OO and have a nice soap. Run it through a soap calculator. Walmart GV shortening with tallow and lard is a good option too.