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I love Ellys Everyday! The only recipes I’ve made so far have been hers

That’s a good possibility! I have to double filter our water because the chlorine was making me sick, it probably is effecting my skin too!

What a cool experience! I think the Nerdy Farm Wife was the one who put the idea in my head 😂 her and Lovely Greens I have sensitive skin too and am prone to skin infections. I’m hoping by making my own soap I can add some things that help prevent the infections. I figure if the scent of EO’s...

Here’s an update on the soap! It ain’t pretty but it lathers well and leaves my hands super soft. All things considered, I’m thrilled with it! I learned a lot and will try this recipe again..with correct measurements. It also has me wanting to get into hot process soaping so good all around 😁

😂 I’m in the don’t give a hoot category too! Thank you so much for your replies everyone!!! 💕 I can’t reply to them all but have read and enjoyed each one!

Herbal infusions, EOs an natural colors is the route I want to go too ☺️

I’ve had that book in my cart for awhile, I guess it’s time to finally buy it! I read a sample of it and that’s where I learned about using ice instead of water for your lye. It made it seem less scary and helped me finally make my first soaps!

Thanks for the link! The soap I put into bar moulds actually hardened so I’ll at least have that 😂 The big loaf mould is slowly hardening too so there hope yet!

So after my second batch shenanigans and being reminded that you can’t trust all YouTube tutorials, I must ask, where did you all learn the art of soap making? I just found the Book Recommendation section of the forum so I’ll be pouring over that😂 grateful I found this community!

Thanks again for your help!

Thanks so much for all the help and tips! I did the zap test when I thought the soap was done and it was fine, I was just nervous about burning my tongue with lye 😂 I guess as long as you put your recipe through a soap calculator and measure everything accurately there would be no reason for it...

🤦🏻‍♀️ lesson learned 😅 so along those lines…all the YouTubers I have been watching on soap making use ph strips to test, but then researching today I learned ph testing isn’t really accurate. So how do you know when your soap is safe to use/not lye heavy?

Just wanted to say this happens to my hands too with store bought soap, and my Aunt’s hands, and we don’t know why. I have noticed if I wash my hands too frequently in a short period of time it happens. It seems like the soap doesn’t get completely rinsed off and then builds up on my hands and...

Thank you for the pep talk, I needed it!

So I tried the preheating the oven, turning it off, leaving the soap in overnight method. It didn’t make much of a difference. Then I moved on to the crockpot method which turned out to be good, when I took the bars out of the mold there was a bunch of water/oil underneath the bars. Once the...

Awesome! Thanks for the suggestion! I wonder if my seed starting mat would be warm enough 🤔

How did you guess? 🤣😂

Thanks for the info! Unfortunately it took me 3 days to realize what I did wrong or else I would’ve hot processed it 😅 I’ll give what @Ekuzo suggested a shot and then if that doesn’t work I’ll try the oven hot process method. I had never heard of that method, thanks for sharing!

Thanks so much for the suggestion! That’s definitely easier than rebatching it so I’ll give it a try! The bars that are just 3 in the mold turned white overnight and one of the round ones the edges are just starting to turn white so something is still happening 😅 Green is just the OO!

I made a batch of soap on Wednesday (only my 2nd ever) and I messed up 😅 I measured my water wrong and ended up adding probably 4 times what the recipe called for. That scale will be going in the garbage! Thankfully I measured the lye and my oils and butters with a different scale so I’m...