Secret-Beauty

Thank you all for the advices. Yes, I used OO for hardness, but I wanted to make the coconut soaps, with CO. It was all coconut . Fragrance, oil and milk.

Yes, maybe it is the Coconut oil. And I think I am kind of allergic, because the itchiness made me crazy. If it is the CO, I'm so sad. wanted to use it in all my soaps, as it is also a hardening agent. Maybe it's best to try the CO in other soaps also, to see the results?

Hy everybody. I have this problem, and I am strugling to figure it out for 2 days now. I;ve made a few days ago, Candybee's Coconut soap recipe. All measured as in the recipe. The soap wasn't lathering so well, and I Pm'd Candybee with this. I rebatched it, melting and adding some extra soap base. After few days, the lather seems to be a little bit better. But my main problem now, is that the soap is drying like crazy . I have this itchines also, and my hands look so bad.... First, I wasn't sure where is this problem from, but then, my husband told me that he washed himself with the coconut soap, and his hands looked exactly like mine. It's so strange, because using the base only with coconut fragrance, it's ok. I have a client crazy about the simple coconut soap. So I wanted to offer him a lovely soap, adding coconut oil, coconut milk, castor oil and glycerine. I must say that I am making lots of soaps with this base, using mostly colour and fragrances, and I have no problems like this one. Do you think that some of this ingredients, are bad? My only doubt is that I used Coconut oil for use in the kitchen. Maybe it isn't good for soaps ((( What do you think?

Hy girls. I am experimenting some problems lately with my M&P OO soaps. The recipe I have from the one who learned me to make soaps (making this recipe for over 10 years now), is: 30 ml of OO per kilo of soap. But I encountered a problem: the soap is braking apart, it looks fissured. Why can this be? Do you have any idea? Maybe the quality of the OO?

I'm bumpbing this thread again. I think this is one of the most interesting for M&P. I'm kind of new in M&P, still reading a lot, making lots of safe soaps (with given recipes), but wanting to make some great nourishing soaps. I would like to ask the old experienced ones, how do they "play" with lotions in M&P? PA said something about using 1-2 T per pound, making a creamy lather. Other opinions, please? Thanks.

Hy everybody. I was wondering.......about hot paprika in soap. In M&P soap. Can I use it, or it's irritating for skin? Maybe it's better to choose normal paprika (not hot), but what quantities? I want to make a soap that's good for flab.

Yes, when the soap isn;t cool enough, all the additives sit on the bottom.

Sounds nuts to me also. I am never peeling anything off.

I made once a bar of honey and beeswax - and strange thing, the bar was quite soft......Even with the beeswax in it.

I also think that the ingredients are so, so important for a soap.

What's cotton candy?

Hy. I would like to ask you something: when I used Kaolin in soap, it seems that it;s drying a lot. Did this happen with you?

Great ideea I think!

Great job with this exfoliant!

I put the confetti in, and then pour the extra soap at 50 F.