Okay - you you start off in the beginner section, where no one who is selling should have to post too many questions. You state you have little experience, but are selling. That is a problem for a lot of us.
Then the main issue, the salt. I think that you took DeeAnna's comment wrongly. Someone might have said "you can't just throw any old thing in" which doesn't mean that you are randomly opening the cupboard and grabbing something. I try to reply in a way that assumes people mean things in a positive manner when possible, as we can't get the full gist from text on a screen. You called DeeAnna snarky without knowing if she was or not. You called me defensive when I was actually offended. It's not easy to get nuances via this medium so I try to give the benefit of the doubt.
Now, you consider your choice to be well researched and based on a solid premise. But it clearly isn't as it turns out it is wrong. I can read online that you should wash your hands before preparing food. I can also read that bleach is used for cleaning. From that, I could choose to use bleach on my hands and consider it well researched - although we know this is an extreme example as we know bleach is not correct to use there. But from reading two things online I could come to a false conclusion. If I then posted somewhere about it, people might well say "you can't just use a cleaning product willy-nilly"........
Even if I read that I should use bleach on my hands, I need to look at the source. One of the great things about a forum is that people can correct others. If I told you that you can use self raising flour instead of lye, plenty of people would post calling that out as utter bunkum. With many online sources you only have what one person has written, with little or no contra-advice.
There are a lot of people who benefit from the advice on this forum. Newbies and experienced soapers alike. People DO want to help, but I doubt that they will if they are unfairly attacked and/or advice is constantly ignored or thrown back in their faces and things of this nature.
No one here is paid to help others, it's done for the love of soaping and when there is someone who doesn't want help or wants it only in a certain way, then there are plenty of other ways that people can spend their time
Then the main issue, the salt. I think that you took DeeAnna's comment wrongly. Someone might have said "you can't just throw any old thing in" which doesn't mean that you are randomly opening the cupboard and grabbing something. I try to reply in a way that assumes people mean things in a positive manner when possible, as we can't get the full gist from text on a screen. You called DeeAnna snarky without knowing if she was or not. You called me defensive when I was actually offended. It's not easy to get nuances via this medium so I try to give the benefit of the doubt.
Now, you consider your choice to be well researched and based on a solid premise. But it clearly isn't as it turns out it is wrong. I can read online that you should wash your hands before preparing food. I can also read that bleach is used for cleaning. From that, I could choose to use bleach on my hands and consider it well researched - although we know this is an extreme example as we know bleach is not correct to use there. But from reading two things online I could come to a false conclusion. If I then posted somewhere about it, people might well say "you can't just use a cleaning product willy-nilly"........
Even if I read that I should use bleach on my hands, I need to look at the source. One of the great things about a forum is that people can correct others. If I told you that you can use self raising flour instead of lye, plenty of people would post calling that out as utter bunkum. With many online sources you only have what one person has written, with little or no contra-advice.
There are a lot of people who benefit from the advice on this forum. Newbies and experienced soapers alike. People DO want to help, but I doubt that they will if they are unfairly attacked and/or advice is constantly ignored or thrown back in their faces and things of this nature.
No one here is paid to help others, it's done for the love of soaping and when there is someone who doesn't want help or wants it only in a certain way, then there are plenty of other ways that people can spend their time
