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So I'm actually MAKING some damned soap! ('bout frigg'n time too! ) I'm making some sort of i-dunno-whatsit-orange-ish scented sump'n-or-other... Anywho, for the first time EVER... (ever!) I'm using tussah silk in the lye water. I strained it, and I would not have normally associated lye water with ANYTHING that was nice, but that worm spit smells GOOD!!! It has this delicate almost jasmine fragrance to it. I was really shocked. I strained it out and I pulled some stuff out that appeared to be protein and I'm wondering if that wasn't a waste... Whatever! PRESSING ON! Other revelations encountered today are: HOLY SMOKE! You CAN disperse mica in WATER!!! o.O My life is like a roller coaster right now! Totally exhilarating heady fun! (Yes, I know I'm a SICK sonnamabectch....but WEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!! ) o.O Back to the CROCK POT IGOR!!!! -Sponiebr

Houston!? Hello? Jyas... I tink we have a wiener... OK! So I've listened to you! o.O (mark thee well this day and this time...) It'll be soap specific, but here's one label... About Bad Idea Soaps: This soap, (yes, this one in your hand), is hand made to be as gentle and luxuriant as I can make it using: lye, aloe vera juice, tallow, palm oil, olive oil, coconut oil, castor oil, yogurt, cane sugar, glycerine, sodium lactate, fragrance oil blend, and natural mineral & mineral oxide colorants. The concept behind all of my "bad ideas" is that if you know what a "bad idea" is then doing the opposite of that should prove to be a "good idea". I think you'll find that my soap is a VERY GOOD idea! "May no bubble stick to your butt!" Bern Sponenburgh Work? No work? o.O It's in bubblegum 6 point. I've tried almost all of the fonts on AVERY and that one seems to be the easiest to read and not look clinical. -SPONIEBR

@TallTayl Just WONDERFUL!!!! In the immortal words of Paris Hilton: "that's hot." Thank you:) Sponiebr

I'm selling by the bar, and I still need the weight? That's easy enough to put at the bottom. Yeah, I've been putting it off, what with the pine trees, cars, divorce, blah, blah, blah... I really DO need to get her book. Next order from Amazon! I actually got the idea for that blurb up there from her website. I wanted to try and go for a blanket blurb that would give basically everything I use in my soaps BUT wasn't specific to any particular bar of soap... That way I would have the latitude to adjust my formulations as I needed... Once I get a master formulation, (which I'm pretty darned close to, I've already got one for CP), this won't be such a big deal. I'm just kinda loath to print a bunch of labels because in THIS batch I'm using 7% canola oil because I ran out of OO... YKWIM? Or is that just blasphemy? Also, and this is just an ethics question, You know those pretty round soaps I did? Well, they are PHENOMENAL, just really nice soaps, but they've got some discoloration, and I can't tell if it's DOS or not. Should I refrain from selling them? I'm gonna hold them for now and see if that discoloration spreads but I wanted all y'all's opinion on it. I was also gonna shoot for $5/ ea 3-4 oz bar... (at least for what I have right now) Slainte, Sponiebr

Oh HALP ME! SAVE ME!!! OH halp... o.O Yep. I need a good save'n... So I'm at the Chiropractor's the other day and basically it ends up with they want some of my soap in trade for "spendy money", some folks call "spendy money" "green backs", still other'ns call it "cash", yes, there's a great many names fer it, but the short side of that hog is that you kin git other'n stuff with it cause peoples is always willing t'trade ya stuff fer it. And they oughnta give it to me fer my soaps. o.O They also wanna know whut's IN the soap... I don't COTTON to that too much, but I told'm I'd run it by the council... Y'all ever heard of that? Peoples want'n to trade "spendy money" fer soap AND THEN want'n to know WHUT'S innit? Bee-zar is whut that is... Bee-zahr.... Anywho thisy here's whut I got worked up only it don't fit right on my used postage stamps, so I gotta start peel'n beer lables offa bottles to git bigger lables so's it'll fit right... IT'S A DAMN CON'SPIRACY I tells ya! About Bad Idea Soaps: All of my soaps are made to be as gentle and luxuriant as I can make them using saponified oils of tallow, palm, olive, coconut, castor, shea butter, canola, avocado, soybean, cocoa butter, and lard. To improve a particular quality of a soap I will occasionally add some special ingredients such as coconut milk, goat's milk, hemp milk, buttermilk, yogurt, sour cream, crème fraîche, pine tar, beeswax, mineral oil, jojoba oil, glycerine, sodium lactate, salt, various natural clays, and oatmeal or oat flour. My scents are all from either pure essential oils or bath and body safe fragrance oil blends, and my colorants are sourced from natural vegetables, minerals, and mineral oxides. The sole concept behind all of my "bad ideas" is that if you know what a "bad idea" is then the opposite of that should prove to be a "good idea", and I think you'll find that my soap is a VERY GOOD idea. "May no bubble stick to your butt!" Bern Sponenburgh Whudya thank? I really don't know about the font... I'm probably going to have to print this as a card and hand it along with the soap. I dunno. HALEP!!!! OH HALP!!!! -Sponiebr: a Lower form of Florida swamp Squid.

Yep, that's what I originally went out to buy, and I ended up with a placemat... Which MAY or may NOT have been an accident.... "I'llllll neeeeever te-eeeelllll...." o.O

You TOO? Oh,wow... I'm glad I'm not alone... I was wondering what to do with all the shavings, and considering my newly appointed "hobby" of mechanic it occurs to me that making up some hand cleaner might be prudent. So I'll likely be mixing the mess o'shave'n's up with some mineral spirits and making "Goop/Go-Jo/Napalm" for my use in car repairs. -Sponiebr

What ARE these 50 pound pails? What ARE they made of, stainless steel? They must be TERRIBLY heavy after you get them filled up... It's been one of those intriguing days, which is interesting in itself because I'm getting a head cold... I thank I knead sum mir robysustun... o.O (That's the ticket Sponie! More Robitussin... Go get'm tiger! ) Sponiebr: the (READER'S CHOICE!!! fill in the blank:)___________________________

WHAAAAA? You DON'T have a DRILL!!!? I mean like, at ALL? o.o I spent a fair amount of time in far east Europe where EVERYTHING was hand tools and I had a drill, and though I don't OWN a drill now, I have access to several! Come now... You simply MUST get a drill! All the COOL kids have drills... Your life will change DRAMATICALLY when you realize the amount of things there are to screw in this world... Oh and a drill makes doing lobotomies SO much easier, and those make people easier to live with... You GOTTA get a drill! Oh, and a weed eater... and a LIVE chicken!!! and some PEACH PRESERVES!!!! Oh we'll have a FINE old time!!! -Sponiebr

Does this stuff require a Vanillin stabilizer? If so, do you get it from CC as well? I think some nice vanilla brown sugar OMH would be quite a nice little addition... -Sponiebr: The SICKO...

Well, I'm not a M&P guy, buuuuuuuuut... I would go with the highly whipped M&P and I would cast them separately (You might even be able to pipe them, if you got it thick enough) Then use some melt and pour to glue the 2 bits together. Kelly's the piped soap queen. @KrazeKelly might I beg of your dos centavos? (The castile in that seems weird to me for some reason, but I reiterate I'm not the M&P guy...) Sponiebr: (yeah, yeah: bad Ideas... Blah, blah, blah...)

^ Internet Explorer user right there folks! Behold! Don't let yourself become the next victim! Harden your internet butt with CHROME! (I'm just play'n here... But seriously, IE sux.) Edited to add: "I am using Chrome. I'll take a look at that." Whoops! Didn't see that... I'm in Linux Mint and I had an issue with Chrome just yesterday as well... Had to change the ownership and grouping of one of the config files. I think that FF has probably surpassed Chrome for the time being... I'm confident Chrome will catch up;) (I'm a Linux user with a Netflix account I HAVE to use Chrome, [not Chromium, real Chrome baby!) Are you using Windows? Sponiebr: The Executor of Bad Ideas and Sundry Services.

Tsk, tsk... Not GLUTEN FREE.... They really could have had a winner there... I also wonder HOW they got sucrose without using carbon...

"Positive ions are generated by electrical devices, by scented candles, by walking across carpet, and even by heating/cooling systems. They are a fact of life, but they can carry everything from dust to pollen to toxic mold, so it is important to reduce them. Indoor air typically has a higher concentration of positive ions. This is where negatively charged ions come in. They bind together and have a heavier molecular weight so they are no longer floating around the air." Say... Mamaness O'well Since they're so big and heavy, that means ANYWHERE WE ARE we're standing in nothing but negativity!!!! WHY doesn't somebody just get out there and filter these damned positive particles out? Maybe use a butterfly net? Butterfly nets are fun. That ONE statement I quoted made EVERYTHING she typed a complete waste of time. You gotta wonder if it actually hurts to be at her level of affliction... Remember: Arrogance and ignorance will never endure for Wisdom will raze them with swift and utter finality, but stupid is Fo-ev-ah!

What TT said. Verbatim. Also for me, CP gives me the time to do artistic swirls, but also like Jcandleattic said both have their pros and cons... I don't use M&P for anything, though I might consider it for some sort of soap glue hot glue... I'm *personally* starting to like HP even better than CP because I'm getting almost the same results in less time and with less of a cleanup hassle... HP also uses MUCH less FO as well, which is good for me because I'm a cheap bastard. YMWV, Sponiebr

@moonshine Along the same lines of developing sensitivities from constant exposure... (Obviously I'm interested in both developing sensitivities, and exposure... but I digress) I used to be just fine around dogs and cats having had them in the house for years, but after being away from them for even as little as a 2 week vacation I found that when I was exposed to them I developed a bad histaminic response, puffy face, itchy skin, watering eyes, cough... Yeah, I got allergic to them. Several of my friends who are in the bagpipe industry, (yes you read that correctly... I used the plural of friend, denoting multiples...) developed allergies to some of the exotic hardwoods that they were turning. It is interesting to note that these hardwoods are highly resinous species, many of which also bear latex... (Don't confuse that with latex bears... They are TOTALLY different...) ANYWAY!!! I shouldn't think it any sort of surprise that people develop sensitivities to FO's and EO's... However, to state that burning candles would be harmful to your health... I dunno 'bout that... (though, clearly a paraffin candle wouldn't be good for you...) Maybe Wellness mama needs a nice big warm cuppa ayahuasca to clear her thinking... (I betcha she uses pure-organic-non-GMO-all-natural-non-nuclear-proliferation-cold-pressed-VIRGIN coconut oil as the only ingredient for her secret life wellness and spiritual colonic formula, I'm just say'n...) Sponiebr, bad ideas, etc... OH! And interior decoration consultant!!!

Oh! All y'all is talk'n 'bout TREEHUGGERS... (Whale hail! Y'didncha jist SAY SO!) Damned treehuggers... And then there's them turtle copulaters... (That's not what we REALLY call'm but I'm being nice...) Anyways these nuts go running up and down the beach all night long, and all year long putting up little "sanctuary" "ZONES" with all kinds of death threats posted on them. Then during the day they guard them. Don't get me wrong, I like the sea turtles and all... I even don't have too much of a problem with asking folks that actually line ON the beach to turn off their porch lights during nesting season... I don't even mind the little stake beds with the police line crime scene tape blowing off into the ocean, (not real thrilled 'bout that last part, but whatever if the turtles like the pretty ribbon that's all that matters...) No... No problems with that, cause I really DO like them little goofy flippy floppy windup car looking baby sea turtles. They're cute. Naw my problem is that those nut jobs do this year long, and specifically target peak traffic events claiming nests... Brazenly going up to houses and DEMANDING that ALL OF THE LIGHTS INSIDE THE HOUSE BE COMPLETELY OFF year round or else the ENTIRE house sealed up in such a manner as to block ALL light from emanating from the house. Yeah, houses that have been there for 50-60 years... Have to "comply" with the local asstrap chapter of face being accused of felonious acts against endangered animals... Shooting out peoples windows and lights... THAT PISSES ME OFF. But now they're after chandlers too? BLOODY'ELL!!!!! Well! I'll not 'ave tha!!!! So... Bird... Yer say'n that you CAN have TOO many candles burning at one time? (I'm just trying to make sure I actually understand what yer say'n here...) Too many "might" not be good for your health? Well, DAMN! This just ruins EVERYTHING!!! I mean, I always just disregarded the complaints "uh... I don't think I feel so good..." as just, y'know nervous excitement... But now I read this! So It looks like I'll have to re-tool (re-illuminate?) my erm....den? with those stupid LED battery operated candles... THAT'S gonna be EXPENSIVE! We're also not going to have the benefit of the the heat from the candles anymore... Well this just SUX!!!! Date night ambiance is definitely gonna suffer... Sponiebr: The Executor of Bad Ideas and Sundry Services.

OMG!!!!! This *really freaks me out* (lookitme! I'm freaked out!) I really can say that I've never even HEARD of this!!! This is a RARE occurrence when ANYONE can catch me off guard like that. Well... What good am I if I can't take a sucker punch once in a while? So... I'll just bear the shame and ask... What IS a "crunchy" person? (I AM assuming that "crunchy people" is plural and the singular form would be "crunchy person", but as I have NO farking idea as to what this is I very well may be wrong...) Sponiebr: take'n one for the team cuz I'm tough like that... PS: Do they come in original and extra crispy? Y'know what... SKIP IT... I want Popeye's... .<<

I also use straight clear ammonia to scrub up some of my stuff. If you REALLY want to get in there and strip the oils out (I haven't tried this yet, but I don't foresee a problem with it) acetone strips vegetable and animal fats like a BOSS. I use acetone regularly for really stripping out items that I'm polishing. (coins, jewelry, etc...) I would only use acetone as a wipe though, and not really very much at that, because the silicone will most likely absorb the acetone. I'll see if I can't get my mitts on a silicone mold and try the acetone concept sometime in the near future. Here's MY experience with silicone and wax. I think I've stated this before, but I'm not a chandler, but a bubble head, even so I have cause to pour wax billets from time to time. What I have found is at least as far as with paraffin the wax actually soaks THROUGH the silicone and leaves a white powder like residue on the OUTSIDE and inside of my thinner silicone molds. This is NOT optimal for my soaps. I generally flex and brush off the white residue and then fill the cavities with boiling water. That seems to get the powder out. I think really, what would be more effective would be a solvent that dissolves your wax... but be forewarned that soaking silicone in certain hydrocarbon and aromatic solvents can soften, swell, and deform silicone, (benzene and naphtha come to mind), which is why you can't use silicone tubing for fuel lines in small engines. If you're using soy wax, well, acetone might be the better bet for you, paraffin's nemesis would be odorless mineral spirits... You will have to at LEAST warm these molds up after you've cleaned them to make sure any solvent that soaks into them evaporates out. HTH YMWV, Sponiebr: the Executor of Bad Ideas and Sundry Services P.S.: I just did a google search on the paraffin and LO!!!!! Paraffin wax cleaner turned up a US Patent Office abstract for acetone and kerosene as being a superior paraffin wax cleaner...) https://www.google.com/patents/US2741596 Definitely worth a read, though I would still go with the odorless mineral spirits, (this patent has problems as I see it because acetone is infinitely soluble in water. Ugh... wet acetone is SUCH a pain, and it stinks like a bad hangover fart too...)

That's bloody brilliant!

I fill my empty space inside with Dove Dark Chocolate, and... video games... It doesn't really help, but I still do it... Don't judge me...

I can verify that. I've had it spread across multiple bars in especially if touching each other. Specifically in any instance where a bar was touching another bar there is a yellow spot forming at the point where they were touching. Probably from not being able to dry properly. The smell isn't too bad right now. Honestly, on most of the bars the DOS wouldn't be noticeable as far as smell is concerned, it's more of a cosmetic issue. Still I can't have that kind of negativity in my life. Ain't nobody got time for dat! Thanks people! It's GOOD to know I'm not actually cursed, 'cause y'never know... o.O Spponiebr

Oh... WHOA!!! Just found this totally by accident Gemlite sells 50% solution premixed Lye! They have some very interesting additives actually... And they send lucky charms bowls from the early 80's... (BTW: free cereal bowls are not listed under their "specials" tab...

That's GOTTA be it! Hmmm... Frosted lucky charms, they're magically delicious! You know those damned kids are always after Lucky's Pot o'Gold! Say! There's another clue! Pot o'Gold! What's a pot by any other name but.... a bowl! So we have Pot, o'Gold Bowl and some "Secret" wrapping papers concealing oils... Secret huh? Strong enough for a nut but made for an elf? Kinda trippy, if you ask me. Hm... trippy. Bowl.... (scratches head...) I say we ask tall Alice... (she's 10 feet tall you know) (Keep playing along people...) Well, Alice just keeps muttering something about feed your head.... o.O Lucky Charms is food... Magically Delicious food... o.O Magic food... (scratches head...) feed your... O.O (BLINKS) THAT'S IT! They sent you some Acapulco Gold aka POT for your Bowl so you can "feed" your HEAD! They sell incense oils, they're a head shop! DUH! It was there ALL ALONG! Oh it makes perfect sense now!!!! (Yes, you're welcome... I know that was some heavy mental lifting but that's what I'm here for.) Have a safe trip, see ya next bong! Sponiebr: the guy that you're glad you're not...