soleseife

Double layered salt bar with two differnt mint: mint EO for the blue layer, menthol crystal for the white layer. Made over the last weekend. This is my first time making a salt bar and well...it doesn't look as nice as I wished. I used salt the same amount as my oil. The white layer turn out...

Just wanted to share a photo of my very ashy soleseife. In photo, top soap is after 4 week cure. Middle bar is cut in half. You can see the rind of ash. Bottom bar is after washing the bar. Has anyone experienced this amount of ash with their soleseife?

Back on the Beginner Forum to ask about my first soap issue that developed on my 2nd batch. Was adding some soaps to my cure box and rotating the soaps when I saw that 2 of the soleseife bars have developed a 'chip' where the piece could be removed straight off, without effort. One chip was...

Hi all! Trying to formulate a recipe for a client's special request custom batch - he wants a soap that looks like sushi rolls, with as-authentic-as-possible ingredients. I've always got avocado and rice bran oils and I've already sourced salmon oil, but I still need hard oils, even though...

Greetings all you master soapmakers. I'm a monk (Orthodox Christian) and have been soaping on and off for 9 years or so. I love experimenting with textures, colors, recipes and fragrances. We use FO's and EO's, natural pigments, pigments that are man-made (or what I like to call...

Soap dough creature created for the February 2018 Soap Dough challenge Soleseife soap, coloured with activated charcoal, coffee and clays

Soap dough creature created for the February 2018 Soap Dough challenge Soleseife soap, coloured with activated charcoal, coffee and clays

When making brine soap, what do you dissolve first in water: salt or NaOH? Thank you!