Bad Advice You Have Read on the Net about Soapmaking

[TessC]

There are a plethora of bad recipes as well. That's why those of us who've been around a while keep chanting the mantra "Run every recipe throug a lye calculator - no matter where it came from."

Ugh, some of the recipes are awful. :shock:

 

[Lindy]

I use BIG pyrex measuring cups for my lye mixtures. They are in the sink and I have my soap pot (SS) in the other sink for the pour and blending. I wash my pyrex oiut with a vinegar solution for clean-up. So far so good - but I don't trust anything and that's why I use my sinks for everything except the pour.... :?

 

[ChrissyB]

Nancy today has a blog attached to her vids. In one of her entries she says she has to go to the chemist to get some more celexa. I looked it up and I think it is a form of antidepressent. So I apologise for saying jokingly that she has mental problems, In all seriousness I think she might.
Without knowing the poor lady it was unfair of me to make that comment.
I think that the photos of her soap on etsy look lovely. And she obviously knows a lot about soapmaking. Maybe she just sort of "forgets' the safety issues. Or maybe she's always thrown caution to the wind and nothing has ever gone wrong, so why should she change now?
I am a little concerned that she has over 3000 movies on You Tube, an etsy store, a blog, her soapmaking, going to Germany,no wonder she doesn't get any housework done.
Maybe we should send her the link for the Fly Lady.

 

[madpiano]

Carebear really?
I had the impression that she was all by herself and really really bored and that's why she makes all these movies for YT.
I wonder what her kids think of her? (But I guess if they don't know anything about soapmaking, they wouldn't have a clue, would they?)
What bothers me, is if some kid has to research soapmaking, for school or something, so they look it up on you tube *which they do*, and there she is doing everything wrong, and she is doing it quite dangerously also.
And while some of her soap looks quite nice on etsy, would you like to buy soap off someone that keeps it in the same room as her worm laiden couch, what's to stop the cat from wiping it's worms on the soap? Or anything else she uses for her soapmaking?
Ewwww.

I can vouch for the fact that cats do not wipe their bums on soap. The FO actually makes them run a mile and eye it very suspiciously...Especially as soap could always mean bathtime....

 

[LJA]

xyxoxy - I have loved watching Nancy Today on YT, and while she is not always safe and doesn't measure her stuff properly most of the time - she is a really nice, funny, and she doesn't give off the impression that she knows it all - rather the exact opposite. She is pretty free spirited. So, while some people pick on her, her soapmaking ways don't bother me as much as the other lady I watch. I've never seen this one mix lye in a glass jar so I don't know if we're talking about the same person, but I just wanted to let you know it wasn't Nancy I was talking about.

Oh she's a hot mess, and I mean that in the best possible way. I love her and watch her every day. I'm totally not lying. EVERY. Day. Someone needs to give her a TV show. Total wackadoodle, and marches to her own drum. I love that. But you look up "good soul" in the dictionary, there is a picture of her. Everyone should check her out.

 

[Guest]

did you guys realize Nancy Today is an improv comedian? Go directly to her channel...and read....

 

[AshleyR]

did you guys realize Nancy Today is an improv comedian? Go directly to her channel...and read....

I think that is just the category she considers herself in because so many people find her funny. She isn't an actual comedian and it's pretty obvious in her videos that she isn't acting.

 

[carebear]

did you guys realize Nancy Today is an improv comedian? Go directly to her channel...and read....

uh... no. she isn't. not in the traditional sense of the term.

 

[ChrissyB]

No I'm pretty sure she's for real, in her own little world.

 

[IanT]

i dont know if it classifies as advice but anyone remember that dude saying he wanted to fly is lye in his ultra-light plane with no declarations over communities and stuff...lol, just to save on shipping..


yeahhh.... whoever told him he could do that..baaaad advice

 

[Guest]

I remember that thread , totally not legal here anyway .Lye can only be shipped ground .
Maybe that is why he never came back :wink:

Kitn

 

[ChrissyB]

Yep I remember that one.
You'd think the fuel for the plane would cost more than the shipping, wouldn't it? :roll:

 

[xyxoxy]

Yeah I was worried about him crash landing in water with a plane full of lye crystals... :shock:

 

[Guest]

Yeah I was worried about him crash landing in water with a plane full of lye crystals... :shock:

OMG never thought of that . Yikes !!

 

[LJA]

Yeah I was worried about him crash landing in water with a plane full of lye crystals... :shock:

OMG never thought of that . Yikes !!

OMG....He'd have to crash again in a vat of vinegar!

 

[Guest]

ROFLMAO LJA
Then he'd have to crash in fresh water again .

 

[IanT]

lol yeah if he crashed in my yard with that....he better hope he dont survive the landing... cause i got one of those big yellow suits i could wear to wade through the lye nastiness lol

 

[Inodoro Pereyra]

Well, I never knew the guy (I'm guessing he was here before I joined), but for what you guys are saying, you have to wonder how some people can survive to be old enough to type... :roll:

lol yeah if he crashed in my yard with that....he better hope he dont survive the landing... cause i got one of those big yellow suits i could wear to wade through the lye nastiness lol

If he crashed ANYWHERE with that, and survived the landing, he'd have a lot to worry about, besides your yellow suit...

 

[Guest]

You got that right Inodoro , he would have some explaining to do and then some :shock: .

 

[hem06]

I started off being shocked at NancyToday, now I think I lurvvvve her a little.

No, seriously. She is just the right amount of kooky. She makes me laugh.

Carrot earing made of baby carrots and paper clips?

I watch her all the time now.