marthakrusty
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Hi, I'm from Canada and am new to soaping. It all started when I was you-tubing for "homemade corned beef" (which I did make and tuned out wonderful) which led to making homemade laundry soap, which led to soap making, go figure!
Made my first batch of CP on Jan 26 with "I Can't Believe It's Not" as my oils (didn't think I should put the full name). This came about because my son (now 29 yrs old) hated butter and I was tired of it in my freezer. Did some calculations on the lye calculator and jumped in with both feet. Batch #2 Jan 28 (think I'm hooked) same oils and FO, just added oatmeal flour to the mix. Tried them both out today and got great lather and no zaps. Am very pleased.
Made liquid castile Feb 2. Went cloudy when diluted so not sure if it turned out. Added small amount of coconut soap shavings to the water lye mix and wonder if this caused the cloudiness. Soap shavings idea came from a you-tube video.
Getting into soaping didn't surprise my husband since I also love to knit, crochet, sew, cook, pretty much anything done by scratch or back to the basics.
Made my first batch of CP on Jan 26 with "I Can't Believe It's Not" as my oils (didn't think I should put the full name). This came about because my son (now 29 yrs old) hated butter and I was tired of it in my freezer. Did some calculations on the lye calculator and jumped in with both feet. Batch #2 Jan 28 (think I'm hooked) same oils and FO, just added oatmeal flour to the mix. Tried them both out today and got great lather and no zaps. Am very pleased.
Made liquid castile Feb 2. Went cloudy when diluted so not sure if it turned out. Added small amount of coconut soap shavings to the water lye mix and wonder if this caused the cloudiness. Soap shavings idea came from a you-tube video.
Getting into soaping didn't surprise my husband since I also love to knit, crochet, sew, cook, pretty much anything done by scratch or back to the basics.
