Skin texture from using homemade soap

[PatrickH]

PatrickH I do not want to rain on your parade but the post you made , and keep making do not have anyone, it does not contain any useful information. On internet is a lot of nonsense and no one read it , sorry

Thanks

 

[Dahila]

Thanks

No problem PatrickH any time :bunny:

 

[SunRiseArts]

Do you paint everyday? There might be paint residue that lingers with whatever soap you use after painting. I'm betting something like acrylic could cause a pretty noticeable residue with the right (wrong) soap.

Almost everyday, but I do not have as much time as I used to.

But I use oil paints. I find them more organic that acrylic, which comes from plastic. Just a personal preference.

Either oils or watercolors. But I do try (when I do not forget) to wear gloves when I paint. Between crafts, painting, and soaping, my pretty nails are gone. I modeled hair and nails for ads when I was in my 20s to make extra $$$.

 

[The Efficacious Gentleman]

In the spirit of this post being a possible time capsule for future generations to find - no one with this much soaping experience should even consider selling their soap. If you stumbled upon this thread, please do not think that it is cool to sell your soap before you really know what you are doing and what your soap will be like one year after you make it.

 

[PatrickH]

In the spirit of this post being a possible time capsule for future generations to find - no one with this much soaping experience should even consider selling their soap. If you stumbled upon this thread, please do not think that it is cool to sell your soap before you really know what you are doing and what your soap will be like one year after you make it.

Ffs.. I sell a bar to a friend and my neighbor for $2.. it's soap. Even if it wasn't the perfect soap, it's soap.. they want it. They want to help me test and give feedback. I explained all the details about it and how long they should let it cure for before using it and why.
I sell it to get my money back for the cost of ingredients.
It's just a bar of soap.. why would anyone's recipe be any different then mine if it has the same ingredients. If it's done properly, it's all the same except your cure time may be different.
I thought I was being so cool by selling my soap.. tell me master, how should I do each step before I can do something cool..
Gets really old being interrogated or scolded like you know all the details of everything I do. It's just soap.. it's yours that much better then mine?
Know all the details in all my recipes..
Not commenting on just this post, I'm feeling a negative vibe that carrys on into the next.. just because I haven't been making soap for 30 years.. I'm not building a rocket ship and trying to take it to the moon and back. It's like making cookies, but you can't eat them for 2 months..

 

[penelopejane]

Patrick,
People are trying to help you here.
In Australia if you give a cosmetic product away that's fine but when you sell a product you have entered a binding contract and you can be held responsible and people can sue you if there are repercussions from the usage of that product.

There have been MANY instances of people suing companies for unexpected reactions to soap - red skin, burnt skin etc etc.
These reactions might be from excess lye, unmixed lye or just a mucked up recipe.
They might be because someone one has particularly sensitive skin.
There is a good reason that soap is classified by the authorities as a cosmetic.
What matters most is that the advice you have been given is to save you from being sued.

If you don't want to listen that is fine but I don't think it is fair to berate people who are only trying to help you by giving you the benefit of their experience. Making soap is a craft and a science that I've learnt takes time to learn how to make and then even more time to perfect. It is annoying but that is the truth. There are no quick fixes, unfortunately, or I would have found them. Believe me I tried.

 

[Dahila]

Selling bad (uncured) soap for 2 dollars undercut others, and you may discourage a lot of people to use handmade soaps. We, people who have business, put a lot of work and learning to make products for sale,
This is very bad practice, what you do
Wait till someone gets skin irritation and you end in court. Selling will require the insurance and following the rules which are in place in USA and Canada
I bet you have no idea how to manually get the amount of lye, or any Sap values, You can not explain anything about "just soap"

 

[Arimara]

Selling bad (uncured) soap for 2 dollars undercut others, and you may discourage a lot of people to use handmade soaps. We, people who have business, put a lot of work and learning to make products for sale,
This is very bad practice, what you do
Wait till someone gets skin irritation and you end in court. Selling will require the insurance and following the rules which are in place in USA and Canada
I bet you have no idea how to manually get the amount of lye, or any Sap values, You can not explain anything about "just soap"

Let's leave him be to make his own stupid choices. We all have given him plenty of advice. and he's just getting defensive and shrugging it off. In the event he does get sued, It was just soap that he sold to his cousin's baby's mama's best friend.