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No they are not , check other answers about icing sugar, the same reason beekeepers don't feed it to bees

Add neatsfoot oil if you can find it , I find it brilliant for skin when in a tallow soap with a low cleansing number

I did try the banana peel in lye and to be honest noticed no difference apart from the lye turning brown

Being honest , there was no real problem , I just added 2 tablespoons of the himalayan rhubarb powder to the olive oil and heated in a crackpot for a few hours , then let the whole mix sit for a couple of days and then strained it. The colour really came out when the mix was added to lye

I use 190% proof for making tincture with mary jane

My first try with himalayan rhubarb

When I use BW, I keep it to a maximum of 2% of the oils used

Beeswax and honey have different points of being liquid ( I know honey is liquid) but I add the honey to the melted tallow and blitz it really well, I found stirring it didn't work for me, once mixed , I add the cooling beeswax and again give a good blitz, you have to work quickly as the wax...

I mix it with my beeswax and a little tallow , beeswax has a low point of being a solid and should mix without separation, I put the whole mix on jar and blitz it with hand held blitzer and I find that works

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Yep, mens Harley's big v twins 😃😃😃

Tomato soap

It almost went in the bin as it was a horrible colour when first made but I gave it a chance to see how it turned out, it was the same with the blueberry batch , it was the ugliest colour ever but 2 days later it had a blue look to it and wasn't so bad

I dont you any colours and the lye did have an effect on it but I was happy with the finished item . I have a lovely pink bar made with calamine and aloe which lightened to a lovely shade of pink

my attempt at tomato soap with real tomatoes

That's what I was thinking but I had to ask just incase it could be added

Hi , has anybody used gond katira in a soap or shampoo bar , the only recipes I can find for it are conditioners that have a shelf life of 1 week . Can this be added to a recipe without problems . Tia