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I have done wet felting for soaps but this is my first try at needle felting on top of the wet felted soap. For the wet felting I used the felt batter I picked up. The brown wool on the end is the Camel Down Today I am making large felted dryer balls. There is plenty of the batting if anyone...

Hi! We have all heard of the benefits of essential oils. Adding essential oils to soaps make them smell "natural" and good. However, we also know that the scent of essential oils will evaporate over time in soaps. Let say after a few months when the scent of the essential oils has faded or...

Hi everyone, im just branching out and have started making miniature bath bullets (small bath bombs) and a very good seller at the moment is my Chamomile and CBD oil, im also making Bath melt bars with Calendula petals and CBD oil. I was wondering if anyone has ever tried making a M&P soap with...

I posted this information in another thread, but I'm placing the information here so it can be easily found. EDTA EDTA, created in 1935, is a persistant organic pollutant (or POP). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_organic_pollutant EDTA is not biodegradeable, is fossil-fuel based, is...

Hello! I am a casual soaper. I don’t really have plans to sell soap, only because I would want to sell a high quality product and what I have made so far... as my husband says, ‘I just want soap that suds on my hair and doesn’t feel like a cheese grater in my skin.’ So my products have been...

Soap painting "Winnie and Piglet" Wet on wet soap painting created for the SMF soap challenge 1920's theme, hosted by Saponista in November 2017

Hand cut salt bar (soap)

Carved (halloween) salt bar Coloured with activated charcoal and BP grade zinc oxide. Created for the carved soap challenge, hosted by toxikon in Sept 2018 https://www.soapmakingforum.com/posts/716513/ https://www.soapmakingforum.com/threads/sept-2018-smf-challenge-carved-soap-designs-entry-thread

"BlueStone" Andalusian Soap horse, carved for the SMF Stone Soap challenge, hosted by newbie in February 2019.

Those of you who sell your wares at markets, do you also sell other bath & body items? There are a couple other body care vendors at the market I sell at but they concentrate primarily on natural skin care (face creams, hand creams, body/facial sprays, serums, etc.) In my case, I sell my soaps...