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Who knows, maybe it was just a one time fluke! Thinking on it, my tallow is home rendered with salt, and while most of the salt is scraped off, I'm sure small amounts might make it into the batter, causing it to accelerate slightly. So it's entirely possible my experience with saturated fats...

There were some surprises when I whipped this batch up yesterday. I've always used Ivory soap on my face, and when I started soaping I really wanted to make a dupe at home. Granted, it's still very much in the mad scientist stage as this is batch #1 and I didn't even add a chelator, it was just...

The swirl on these is so great 👌🏻 what was your original plan? Because I would've totally planned the design to be like this the whole time!

What's that? Oh, just soap on the ceiling. 😂 I was using a Pringles can for a mold and I was using the lid it came with for the bottom. I poured in a little soap at thick trace and no leaks! I thought wow why has no one thought of this? Then I filled it up and I tried banging the mold on the...

It does look like an orchid blossom! You've convinced me to try a cyclone swirl, that really brought it together I think! I've actually been hesitant to even try Tennis Breaker mica because it is always so bold on camera and I've been worried about it throwing off the color balance of my soaps 😂

Well I use the low setting on my thrifted crockpot from the 80's, but I do what I can to work fast. I disperse my mica in oil in the bottom of little individual pitchers, which helps the color incorporate much faster because you don't have to worry about mica clumps! After mixing, it's just...

It's certified as cruelty free and eco-friendly. In the product description is where it went on about being great for cosmetics and soap, and I could find only one soap specific review and it was a M&P review that said it did well. It was originally bought by my spouse for epoxy resin so I can...

If there's a Big Lots near you, I'd check out their oil prices. I saw on a soap Facebook page that someone found coconut oil for a ridiculously good price there. I checked the one near me and while they didn't have Coconut Oil, they did have EV Olive Oil and I was delighted to find it for...

Well I'm not sure if I have a color morph with the gold mica I tried to use in my swirl , or if the brownish color is just how it looks in solid colored soap. I used orange mica from Brambleberry, gold mica from an Amazon supplier called RIYA, and the white is the soaps natural color. I've had...

It looks wonderful! They unmolded nicely, and it looks like the orange came out the right color after all! 🙌🏻

I was reading up on making translucent soap and it does seem like a rather difficult soap to really master. I was thinking maybe I should try making M&P first and work my way up to translucent, and I don't think I anticipated it would be similarly difficult, so thank you for the word of caution...

YouTube to the rescue, right? 🙏🏻 It definitely looks promising (she even does a great demo at the end!) have you by chance used this recipe before? It's okay if you haven't, just wondering

Your soaps look awesome! What percentage of beeswax did you use, if I may ask? I'm curious as someone who also got into soaping with the intent to incorporate beeswax! 🐝

I'm sorry I wasn't clear, I think I'm looking for a recipe I can make myself that includes solvents so that the soap can be easily remelted later. I don't know if that's something anyone here has really gotten into, but I'm aware that it might need to have special care as being cooked on a...

I'm looking to make a large batch of uncolored/unscented soap that will be used for Melt and Pour purposes later. I wanted to ask essentially for recipes or tips on what will make my soap really Melt and Pour friendly. :) Thanks!

So I soap very creatively as a hobby and sometimes you see a video of a pour that's so cool you can't wait to mimic it? Well I forgot that the video I watched they used a regular 4 bar flat mold so you pour on the face and not from the top like you do a loaf mold, so it looks nothing like what I...

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Today I was brainstorming how to include my 5 year old who is very excited about soap, in the soap making process. He has so far been excluded from cold process soap making because of safety. Well, he asked if he could cut the soap that I'd made, and since it was for our own personal use I said...

Dr. Bronners is great stuff! Definitely one of the inspirations I took from for making my own Castile! I haven't ventured into liquid or foam soaps yet but I believe most of those recipes will call for potassium hydroxide rather than lye, and you can use the search function in the forum to find...

If you're looking for other recipes (Which AliOop's recipe looks awesome, so totally understand if you're good) I've also had family members with Eczema who like my Castile soap (100% olive oil at 5% superfat) and my Coconut Milk soap (95% coconut oil, 5% castor oil, 20% superfat, and half of my...