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    CP high superfat Soaps including pine tar soap, Deodorant, Beard Oil, Beard Wax,Trad-Ir Instruments.

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  1. The master lists are now and have been here on Craftserver, (well not like right HERE-HERE, but here in this subforum). I'd strongly suggest that you check out ALL of the beautifully collated and pinned topics/threads at the top of this sub which I've linked for you below. https://www.craftserver.com/forum/28-fragrance-discussion/ Anywho... Yeah, so I HTH. Slainte! Sponiebr THE Executor of BAD Ideas and Sundry Services
  2. Yep! I've gone ROUGE! (Let's face it, it's not gonna be a shock to anyone that I've gone off campus...) ANYWHO... I just LOVE typing SO MUCH that I've started a list on the Craftserver FB group of FO suppliers. Just MY personal favorites. Maybe y'all could add YOUR favorite suppliers too? Cheers! Sponiebr The EXecutor of BAD ideAs and Sundry serviceS
  3. Yanno, I've got a LOT of soap that I never wrapped and it ALL has this powdery white coating on it. In MY opinion soda ash can only form when there is active lye exposed to air. So if your soap is cured when you cut it there's little chance that you will form soda ash on the bars. To keep the tops from ashing up I spray, nay... I SOAK the ever-love'n piss outta the tops of my soaps with IPA and then lay on a sheet of plastic wrap onto the top WHILE it's soaking wet. That seals the plastic wrap to the top of the soap and the soap mold and I leave the loaf set at least 24 hours before I unmold and cut. Anywho... That lovely white powder coating that I still get on my soaps after a year or so is stearic acid that's been brought to the surface as the FO kinda gasses off, or at least that's my working theory... Sponiebr The Executor of Bad Ideas and Sundry Services
  4. And then there was that one time, at band camp, when your scales went Bahoobies up and you ended up having to use all that soap as weed killer... Sponiebr THE Executor of car repairs, no, wait... BAD IDEAS! (that's it!) Bad Ideas and Sundry Services....
  5. Jayzus... Y'all having to resort to FRUIT to get predictable candles... I jist... CAIN'T even! Sponiebr, THE (Yup, STILL) Executor of BAD (horrible, you can't EVEN IMAGINE) Ideas and Sundry Services
  6. Doesn't "scum" = "volume"? I mean... it KINDA does, doesn't it?
  7. Even KOH? I thought the ionic whatevermafutitzcalled from the potassium was supposed to be GOOD for hair? As the French would say: No? Damn... I've got 8 frigg'n POUNDS of KOH now. 😕 Ok so WHAT syndet would be the ideal? SLS? CB? TSP? (sorry... BAD SPONIE!!!!!)
  8. Jear Desus... The things we do for love. So my GF has very fine, wavy, frizzy hair and she is horribly frustrated with it. I am a soapmaker, BUT I am apparantly ALSO a masochist. Why do you ask? Well... I MAY have volunteered myself for making shampoo... I don't want to use those syndets though. My theororetical plan is that I should take my normal soap formulation (I'm talking fats here) and run it through soapcalc for 0% SF and calculate how much KOH I need... Make up my KOH solution with my normal ridiculous amount of silk added to it. Use my normal HTFHP method BUT substitute my sugar for glycerin, and skip my normal SL additive. Then post cook add in a 8-10% SF mix of SOMETHING... (Jojoba and Tocopheryl acetate, and olive oil? I dunno...) and something that smells like her normal scent choices. Dump it in a bucket add in my distilled water, cover, and rot it for some heretofore undetermined amount of time. Stir it up, dilute as required, test it on my own widdle noggin. IF all goes well, bottle it up, put a bow on it and hand it over with a lacivious grin.... How close to approximately correct am I? Halp! Please: 😃 Sponiebr The Executor of Bad Ideas and Sundry Services
  9. Thanks and Please... (In whatever order you need them) So as luck would have it my GF is in love with B&BW's Golden Sunflower... which OF COURSE is a discontinued scent. Ok so to MY nose (and I have a HELLUVA gifted nose) it smells like Baja Cactus Blossom and Coconut something r'nuther MAYBE Serendipity and Baja Cactus... with just a hint of citrus? That's all FINE and GREAT but I HATE blending FO to create scents. Does anyone know of a Dupe of Golden Sunflower? I tried NG's sunflower and it AIN'T even close. HALP! Sponiebr The Executor of Bad Ideas and Sundry Services (dammit!)
  10. Welp! The unthinkable finally got me. But a little backstory first... I was in a soaping group that had... (how shall I say this?) some "disquiet souls" amongst it's membership. Me being a man did nothing to help that situation. I'm not at all shy about admitting the fact that as a man I am unequivocally and (sometimes) irreparably aclueistic about certain things, especially things explicitly feminine in nature. So one fine day a post was made regarding using human breast milk as an additive for soap. This curdled my grits upon seeing it. (STAHP! come on... I'm a DUDE...) I wasn't deterred from investigating this idea however. I approached it from a rational and practical perspective. Use it like you would any fresh milk. It's OBVIOUS. HOWEVER, I thought (AT THAT TIME) it was a bit.... uh... let's call it "wasteful", e.g. that the baby fuel would be better used and more appreciated by the baby. I mean any additional benefits the milk would have would just be denatured by the soaping process and even if they weren't it wouldn't have much (if any) benefit about the exterior of the aforementioned baby. Unfortunately for me I had a momentary lapse of reason, forgetting WHERE I was at, and voiced my thoughts in writing. The "disquieted souls" turned upon me in much the same way that the residents of a formicary turn upon a baby bird dropped upon their roof. Needless to say, my confusion was NOT appreciated. I didn't stay past the 5th day to hear anymore opinions about my character. Fast forward to present day. I've often thought about that incident and have cone to some interesting conclusions about making human breast milk soap. I suppose it could be, if nothing else, an incredibly short lived chance for the mother to do something special for their child that they could never do again. In that stream of thought I think the concept quite beautiful. Karma apparantly caught wind of my musings and so I was approached to make human breast milk soap. I was quite surprised by my experience using this rare additive. The first thing I noticed was that human breast milk is some BUTTERY STUFF. I mean the bags* were literally slippery with fat content. (*plastic bags of the zip seal variety, just to be clear) According to my web research human milk is also fairly high in sugar content. Both of these things are excellent additives to soap. Anyway I added the thawed milk directly to chilled lye solution (I premake my lye solution with silk and sugar already added) and let it work it's differences out with the lye before soaping. Upshot was it soaped PERFECTLY. It cut like a dream. It's probably the most mild and one nicest soaps I think I've ever made. Yet again, the answers that have previously eluded me come to light if given enough time. In other news I've been "busy" as of late but thus time I'm ACTUALLY busy with what I've been wanting to be busy with... Thank God. (and I mean every word of that last sentence.) I've got another post to make pursuant to my busyness. Slainte, Sponiebr The Executor of Bad Ideas and Sundry Services
  11. Welcome to the Chandler's paradise. Sponiebr (AKA: NOT a Chandler) The Executor of Bad Ideas, Soapmaking, and Sundry Services
  12. Finger's crossed... Along those lines there DOES seem to be a market saturation point FAR FAR below what I had envisioned. Still... pretty cool idea. (and you're right, it's about time.)
  13. The GOOD news to this newfound (again) drifting without a moral compass, is that I'm gonna get on the POPULAR HYPE wagon and make some money. I just dropped $200 on a SINGLE additive. Sponiebr The Executor of Bad Ideas and Sundry Services
  14. I use it when Tussah gets to be too much to replace. It works fine. I can't tell any functional difference really, except that the lye solution isn't as "muddied". I think I got mine on some deal off of Amazon or Etsy for like 8 ounces for $16 or some kind of unbelievable deal. That's how I buy MOST of my soap making materials though. I wait until there's a ridiculous deal and then I cash in on it in a major way. So I just had to calculate my rate of use at .5g per 100ml of water or 5g per liter of LIQUID ONLY. (That's not actual total solution that's only the water portion of the solution). I chop up the total fiber for the entire batch into 1/4" long snips and wet it completely with the solution, frequently running my SB in the water with the fine silk choppings so that it gets ALL of the air out and gets EVERY FIBER wet with water BEFORE I start adding my lye to the solution. (My water is fridge cold when I start this process too.) I find that adding the silk to the water BEFORE adding the lye cuts ALL stink / hack-up-a-lung potential from the equation and leaves nothing but a really nice floral sweet scent to the lye solution. You HAVE TO get it all dissolved though before you leave it to rest. The lye AND the silk have BOTH got to be in solution BEFORE you stop with the stirring. Also, if you like to add sugar to your solution you need to make sure you add and completely dissolve ALL of your sugar into the water solution BEFORE you add the silk and then the lye. If you try to add granulated sugar AFTER your lye solution has been made the sugar will just clump up and sink to the bottom of the solution. If you want to add in sugar AFTER the lye solution is made (with the dissolved silk fiber) you have to dissolve the sugar into a small amount of water and then add that water to the lye solution. If you add ANY water to the lye solution it WILL heat up, and it will heat up even more if it contains anything but water. EDIT: So I looked it up and it wasn't 8 ounces it was 4.4 ounces (precisely 100g.) at $16.99 of really EXCELLENT mulberry silk tops. I think I found one tiny nit in the whole bag. Good deal for a pinch hit, not earth shattering though. https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B089G7XXBH/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Cheers, Sponiebr The Executor of Bad Ideas and Sundry Services.
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