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Gitche Gumee "The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down Of the big lake they call 'Gitche Gumee'"

Thanks soapers, Congratulations on selling, And on having guinea pigs. I would like to sell. I don't mind making the soap, but the rest of it sounds like the harder part of it. My soap was ugly, but I see a good soap as being the same as what someone told me once about a good wine. "It's a...

Thanks! I will look those up and get a net bag.

I gave soap to people for the first time-- Massage therapist - she got one bar each of the first three batches, I took a bamboo skewer and scribed the number of weeks to wait before she could use them. In retrospect I should have put a date...or the date they were made.... I also put the oil...

Follow up question about my rescued 100% olive oil soap above - the one that was goop the next day then I "rebatched" and let the oil get a little cooked, yes, there were lighter swirly streaks due to that...It seemed pretty hard, so I took a half bar (one bar broke in half when I cut it...the...

Thanks Soapers for all the feedback, I don't mind the long cure and also, at this point, if I rebatch anything it's OK if it turns into an uggo-I have not gotten colorful yet.

Thanks for the feedback on the water. Using the "lye concentration" is an easy change and while I don't mind waiting for good well cured soap, but I also don't want to make it take longer. So...it was not the oatmeal making it soft then? Any tips on working with oatmeal? I thought I might...

Thanks for clarifying on the lye concentration/oil temperature. I did not know it took a long time to trace-I did notice it seemed to have an oily look on the top that I kept trying to get mixed in. I will label the soap, date made and "6 mo. to a year". Thanks for the break down on what I did...

I am not sure my lye/water was correct Avocado 6.25% Olive 12.5% Sunflower 6.25% Shea 25% Coconut 50% 26.78 % Lye concentration - I don't know how I got this in the first place - I had to backwards calculate on soapcalc to get that number figured out. Understood on the CO.

Made some 100% olive oil soap. I did a water discount - 1.5 water to 1 lye - which I think is the opposite thing I should have done and I let the lye cool down before I mixed it withe the room temperature oil. Which I think I should not have done that either. Poured into a loaf mold, wrapped in...

The sodium hydroxide was new, to me, but I can't vouch for how old it was when it was sent to me. I will check to see if there is a date on it. I planned on letting the moisture evaporate and then continue to cure, but based on how soft it is I didn't know what it would do. It is like pinching a...

Technically, I did not leave the oil out. I only had the sunflower, olive and Avocado in at first. Mixed those until it looked like it was at trace and I was about to pour it, then I found out I had not added the coconut and shea at which point I added those and stirred it up some more. It came...

I made some oatmeal soap, the fourth batch of soap I have made. Avocado 2 oz. Olive 4 oz. Sunflower 2 oz. Shea 8 oz. Coconut 16 oz. Water 12.16 oz. Lye 4.78 oz. 2-3 tablespoons ground oatmeal, the flour type. This turned out relatively soft...