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Would you be willing to share some of that clay? I live about 45 minutes from you and I definitely can't use 50lbs! I'd love to buy a pound from you if you can spare it :) I love bentonite and I use it a lot in facial soaps.

I let my buck run with the does and have never noticed a "buck smell" in the milk when I drink it (raw) or when I use it in soap. And by buck STINKS! Milk shouldn't smell goaty unless it is old, or not chilled properly. If my milk has a smell, chances are my doe has mastitis. Are you sure...

Maybe the salt would cut the Castile slime, but it would have 0 lather. I'd not waste my time and money.

Yep, they turn out nice. I do alcohol & GM salt bars all the time.

At 0% SF, no, I don't think it would be a good soap. It might not be the worst soap ever, but I think you can do a whole lot better with the SF. I would not use it at 0%.

Couldn't that be said for all the additives we put in soaps, then?

I've always soaped at room temp and added the egg to a bit of oil from the pot, then added it back in to the big pot. Never had an issue with it cooking!

Emu oil everything!

Any reviews on Coconut Lime Verbena BBW type? Does it morph? What about lasting qualities?

I just bought some Coconut Lime Verbena for baby shower favors. I had never used a coconut FO before, but I knew that citrus were not long lasting. Now that I know coconut is also this way, I will wait to make the favors till the shower is a bit closer. How long does a coconut FO remain...

I wouldn't say that is extra milk. It's actually lacking a bit because powder is not the same as fresh. I've done a rebatch on the same soap 2 times, each time adding more fresh goat milk. I only ever use full amounts of real GM, so when this rebatch was done, it was a 3x milk bar. I never used...

Not to mention that if someone buys a sub-par bar from you, they are less likely to buy handmade soap again from someone who's been doing it for 10 years. You are giving the entire community a bad name by selling when you are not ready.

Having dairy goats that I milk myself and use the milk in the soap, I find that it's a bit deceiving to use powdered milk in a soap. Sure, it is technically goat milk, but I think it's a bit of a slap in the face to those who use real milk. If you're going to advertise it as goat milk soap, at...

x2! Having a farm, I go to the feed store and see that can of Pine Tar all the time. It's calling my name! I will try a small salt bar batch just out of curiosity. A friend of mine has psoriasis so I will give the batch to her to test once I'm done. Do we have a general consensus on...

I agree with the others. It looks suspect to me. Make sure you zap test it in that spot and on each cut bar.

I didn't remelt and whip yet. Had a big market last weekend so this took a backseat. We figured out that it was my stearic that was my problem. When I tried to add more e-wax at the end, I grabbed the stearic by mistake and poured a few grams before I realized it was not e-wax. I didn't think...

I'm just going to throw out the assumption that a pine tar salt soap would be impossible to mold, correct? I LOVE salt soap and make it exclusively. I have several customers asking about pine tar and I've said before that I didn't believe it would work well in a salt soap. Think it'd be...

It turns out fine. I do GM and wine all the time.

Sure, I will do that. Granted I'm going to be trying several batches but I think the ingredients will stay pretty much the same; just the quantities will change. I'm just so bummed! I have never had that problem with my Shea, which is why it caught me so off guard!

Darn! I've never had this issue before with my Shea. Then again, I've also never used such a high percentage. This is one of several test recipes, so no, it's not for sale. I need to figure out the best recipe and hold onto it for a few weeks before I'll be ready to sell it. The one with my...