Here are my Valentines Day soaps. I have issues with each of them, but I’ll keep it to myself for now 
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What soapy thing have you done today?
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I just went into olfactory overload yesterday and am still recovering. I had lots of FO's that I've been collecting that I decided I would test all at once rather than put them in my small batches of soap from time to time. I didn't realize that I would get such a headache from all of the scents as it is still lingering a bit this morning. They have been banished to the garage until they tone down a bit! If it wasn't around freezing here, they would be banished totally outside! Some are FO's that were recommended here, others were on sale and still others small samples that "sounded" interesting. I think I won't ever do that again! LOL Only one seized, several discolored, I am charting this and the smell for a bit...I don't usually keep soap around for more than 3-4 months so don't know if I'll get anything useful for anyone but me. My nose does not "smell" things the same as others...or at least OOB scents. Am trying to find a few scents that my daughter and I like. She may be my daughter but her nose does not have the same DNA! If I do the testing again I will stick to maybe a half dozen scents at once...25 was way too many. But a fun day and a learning one.
Mellicious
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Made Shampoo Bars today.
Matcha & Nettle Shampoo Bars for oily hair (Lavender and Tea tree EO)
No added colorant
Rooibos Shampoo Bars for dry, frizzy hair (Bergamot, Cedar wood, Patchouli and Rosemary EO)
Natural colorant: Alkanet root
Luxury ACV Shampoo Bars for all hair types (Sweet orange, neroli and Patchouli)
Natural colorant: Krappwurzel
Now I can’t wait to see what the colors are going to look like!
Matcha & Nettle Shampoo Bars for oily hair (Lavender and Tea tree EO)
No added colorant
Rooibos Shampoo Bars for dry, frizzy hair (Bergamot, Cedar wood, Patchouli and Rosemary EO)
Natural colorant: Alkanet root
Luxury ACV Shampoo Bars for all hair types (Sweet orange, neroli and Patchouli)
Natural colorant: Krappwurzel
Now I can’t wait to see what the colors are going to look like!
Oh please keep us updated! Would love to know what the soap looks and feels likeToday I rendered 4 kilos of Ostrich fat. Next week I will be making tiny batches of soap with it to give to the Ostrich farmer. I have no idea what the soap will be like but an interesting project
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Yes - you'd better keep them to yourself coz these look great!!Here are my Valentines Day soaps. I have issues with each of them, but I’ll keep it to myself for now
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I took pictures of my Lemon & Poppyseed soap... does that count?
OMG Yes! Especially when it looks so good! Hey - how do you get a lemon fragrance to stick?
This one has a combination of Sweet Orange EO and Yuzu FO. Lemon just doesn't stick well enough.
DKing
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ooooohhhh that is so pretty! I have not found a nice yellow like that yet. Gorgeous!
Beautiful! and YES! and who's yellow Mica is that?
I bought a tall and skinny mold to make soaps using the CP embed I made last week. Im sort of cross processing since its going into a HP loaf. My daughter is having her reception this summer and she wants soaps for the table gift. I making a white coconut milk soap with pink, blue, green, and purple pastel heart embeds. Just poured the first pink one.
Here are my Valentines Day soaps. I have issues with each of them, but I’ll keep it to myself for now
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These are Gorgeous!
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It's actually bath bomb colour that I ordered from Voyageur Soap & Candle, Yellow 5 Lake.
I have been looking at recipes and planning my next soaping. I need to make more shampoo bars for the family, and I am very interested in shaving soap.
Not really soapy but I made some sugar scrubs. Felt good. Haven’t made anything in quite some time. Got an order so had to jump in.
I'm waiting on an order for more castor oil, but measured out the last of what I had left and it was EXACTLY 50g! That's what i use in my 1 litre recipe - so here goes...
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Looks so yummy, are the poppy seeds throughout or only the right hand side ?
Thank you. They're only in the white side.
KeepItSimpleSoap
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Sunday I took an impromptu inventory of the soap that I have made, the lard that I have yet to render and the pile of wax from leftover holiday and emergency candles. To date I have made 6 two pound batches. I have at least that much more Lard. I have more weight than that in candle wax. The total number of bars of soap that I have made is 69. I opted to not make soap today. Instead I put some time into my old kitchen in my former dwelling. Getting rid of stuff that I know that I don't need because it didn't make it to my new kitchen (10 years ago, time flies). I did find a 1" or so hole next to my window AC unit that the house wrens have been using for an entry and exit point. persistent little boogers. They kind of remind me of the way little mice behave.
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You never know what you're going to get until you cut, eh? This time I got two hummingbirds!
sirtim100
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So nice they look almost spooky.
Love it love it love it! Knowing you, @KiwiMoose this was intentional and skillful -- and timed just perfectly after @KeepItSimpleSoap 's post!
I bought ingredients for homemade laundry soap, which is one of my New Years resolutions. I did end up buying a bar of Fels-Naptha because I'm too impatient to make soap and wait for the cure.
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