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There’s a company that does all kinds of how to videos and today they are doing cold process soap. It’s like a train wreck. I know I should turn it off and look away but here I am still watching it. They said you can use glass but didn’t give any kind of warning that glass can shatter. I know...

Can someone explain the difference between 5A and 5C for me? I know one says lotion and one says cream. I'm making lotion sticks, which for me I use mostly for hands but do occasionally use on my arms, legs, heels, etc. I would do the same thing if it were cream. If I were buying lotion in a...

Your picture says lye based. Just make sure the one you get is the right one

Mine has 100% Lye in yellow on the front but otherwise the label looks the same

I've used lye from Ace Hardware. I've never used that particular brand of olive oil so can't help you there, other than I don't see why you couldn't use it. I generally use the Costco brand of regular olive oil and haven't had any problems.

Want to hear the jumbled thoughts of my brain? Read on :) I want to be eco friendly so instead of making bars and putting them in tins, I went with making lotions "sticks" in the cardboard push up tubes. This all sounds good until it comes time to make them. If you pour the liquid in all at...

I just made my first sale yesterday. I've been making my lotion bars in those round push up containers. I guess you would call them lotion sticks? Anyway, a long-time friend and I recently started working at the same place. She's been kind of my tester, so I brought her a new recipe. She was...

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I’ve been cleaning up the area where I keep some of my soapy things and it gave me the motivation to infuse some oils that I’d used up. Because you get blue with indigo and pink with Himalayan rhubarb, I decided to try infusing the powders together (1:2 ratio) to see if I can get a purple-ish...

Mrs Soap & Clay did a couple of videos with them too. Here's one

if you use the soap calculator at the top of this forum, you can put in your mold measurements and it will calculate the amount of soap to make. I’m my experience, it works extremely well. I’ve read that coconut oil can be drying so I don’t use more than 20% in my soap and I use 5% super fat...

My largest batch to date, 40 bars. I bought the All-in-One Tall Skinny mold and had to use it asap 😁. The beer I used was from a local brewery so Mr Blue Moon agreed to stand in as the beer model. I added cocoa for the brown and ZO for the off white. The bottoms have darkened up now that they’ve...

I was so excited to be getting a new soap toy, I mean necessity, today only to find they sent the wrong one. I’ve emailed them but being as it’s the end of the day, I probably won’t hear anything until tomorrow. Poo happens, I know. I can’t help but still be disappointed that I won’t be making...

I sold a spinning wheel that I no longer use. What does that have to do with soap? It means I have extra funds to buy soapy things. There's only so much soap one can use so I'm now considering selling. The ones I have made so far are all different sizes so in case I do decide to sell, I ordered...

I bought a ticket to SoapCon :dance:

@Misschief I was one of those million! I should dig out my lucet again

I intended to make soap for the April straight lines challenge to accomplish two things at once, one being the challenge and the other to get a color chart of sorts so I'd know how each of my infused oils colors look. My original plan was to do some 1 cm lines, then tilt the mold on an angle...

Woah, I didn't realize it was $2300 for the big one! I save for conferences each year, and being as I haven't gone to one in 3 years, I have a bit saved up. No way am I spending that much on one though. I had to giggle a little when you said "yarn money". I've gone to both knitting and weaving...

I see there are two soap conferences coming up, HSCG and SoapCon. HSCG is 4 days and quite the expense, while SoapCon will be a little cheaper. There's also the "you get what you pay for" saying, that is more often than not true. I would love to hear reviews on each of them.