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My aunt is a beautician and she will be cutting my hair either today or tomorrow. While she is cutting my hair I am going to talk to her about selling my CP soap. I am giving her a bar of soap so she can give it a test drive and she can tell customers what she thinks of it. Which should help...

I have some recipes I am wanting to double. Do I just double everything just as if I were cooking? Or should I do it through a lye calculator?

Thank you for the information. :D

I was wondering should the water that the lye is poured into should it be hot or cold? Can I also use water from my kitchen sink?

I created this recipe with the brableberry.com lye calculator and I was wondering will this be good/helpful for dry skin? Canola Oil 3 oz. Castor Oil 2 oz. Coconut Oil 8 oz. Lye 2.24 oz Liquid 4.95 oz

I am glad you confirmed this. I asked this question also in a different post here in on the cold process forum about the recommend water being the water that the lye is poured into. Now I know for a fact that my second batch will be a success.

You're right the recipe was not clear since I created it from a lye calculator. I thought I add to also add water to the soap mixture as well. I learned the hard way.

I used the soap calcultor from Brambleberrys.com and on the recipe I created it suggested for a liquid of 4.95 oz does that mean that is the amount of water I need to add my lye into?

I added the lye to the tap water and added that to the oils. Then I added rainwater to the lye and oils.

About 20 minutes.

I just tried to make my first soap batch. Let's just say it was a big disaster. I had all of the precautions taken down about lye safety. The first disaster was I breathed in some fumes by accident several times and coughed a little bit. I was sitting next to the back door with the door...

The two herb shops in my town sell handmade cold process soaps by an individual. So I got to thinking I could approach some other locally owned business to sell my melt & pour soap and so I was wondering what is the best approach I could use to get a locally owned business to sell my soap in...

I was just wondering is it safe to use my microwave again for food after melting my melt & pour soap in it? I am buying my supplies for the first time on the 1st and just wondered if this would be safe for food use.

Thank you!

I am going to Lowe's tomorrow to look at there Lye and was wondering if anyone has had good success with using lye from Lowe's for a soap recipe.