Carrie

Yes! She does. Ask around, they'll step up and tell you, I'm sure.

It will be a little more superfatted than you were planning. If you use the lye calc at the-sage.com you don't need to make it 100%. It caculates on the total amount of oils not percentages.

http://www.thesage.com/calcs/lyecalc2.php

When I make guest size bars I use my log mold and then cut the log down the center and use the slots in a misty creek type mold to cut them 1/2" thick.

Becs, Becky at Just Scent. She bans people just because of what boards they post on not because of any real problems with them or their orders.

Did Becs take over WSP?

Rebatch. Mix the missing lye with at least an equal amount of water and add it to the re-batch. It may be a little soft because of all the extra water.

Good Luck.

I use 415 soy with my 4627/Soy blend, by the way.

Try a blend of 4627/soy at 75/25. That combo should get you a great HT.

I use toenail clippers. The opening between the cutters is large enough for most wicks and they make a clean cut without messing up the wax.

MissMary, the orders from the Co-op shipped almost a week after I emailed the spreadsheet. When there were missing items in the first co-op, they were mailed within a few days of notification. In the second co-op, the missing item wasn't shipped for at least 2 weeks.

I never did receive a shipping notice, I had to email twice to get a routing number.

I always have problems with room temperature oils and lye. I get false trace every time.

I don't know but did you see that oregontrails has a new red that stays red in CP?

I didn't have any witch hazel. I was cleaning and organizing the shop and found the SLSA and the Citric Acid and decided to make them on a whim.

I'll pick some up today. and try again.

Thanks for the offer MA, but DS would be the one to use them. I don't like baths, showers only for me.

The dumb bombs didn't harden up. They are just as soft as when I made them.

8-gran-ones, the recipe I used was:

24oz baking soda

16oz citric acid

4oz SLSA

3tsp FO

mica

It was dry, dry, dry so I added about a tablespoon of olive oil.

It was very easy to make the mix, next time I'll add some milk powder.

I need to get a sifter, I have chunks of soda in the mix.

Foaming bath powder. However, I suck at making foaming bath bombs. Good thing the only difference is the shape.

Just thought you'd like to know.

When I changed my recipe to 10% castor the soaps stayed mushy/soft for a couple of weeks before getting hard. When I changed back to 5% castor, they hardened up right away.

IMO, any company that wouldn't refund immediately for shipping and re-mail the FO's after receiving proof of your loss isn't worth doing business with. Will you send me a pm with the name of the company?

I bought a kitchen aid at Tuesday Morning and paid $199.00. Then I saw them soon after that at Amazon for $199 for the Red One with free shipping. I jumped on that one and took the black one back...LOL

You can only use paypal balance or transfer, as far as I know. I've never seen an option to change the payment type.

Unless I'm making a castille type soap I use lard at at least 25%-35%. There is no lard smell in the finished soap, ever.

Mason is the type/brand of jar as apposed to Coke is a trademarked advertising symbol.

MissMary, around where I live, 80% of mason jars are used for personal canning and are not resold.

There are palm kernal flakes and palm kernal oil. Both are very white but one is in flake form and one is solid. The oil would be about as hard as coconut oil, if I remember correctly. They are the same and have the same SAP.

Is yours white and hard?

Lye really isn't as scary as people think. Be safe, be aware and be educated. You'll be fine.

This statement "and even with that don't you need homemade soap with lye" isn't correct. Homemade soap, unless done incorrectly, doesn't have lye in it. It is made with lye but when the chemical process of saponification is complete, there is no more lye. It is soap, not lye and fat, just soap, basically.

I believe Bramble Berry sells soap that's ready for rebatch. There are many crafters that rebatch gorgeous soap.

Search the soap gallery for some of eugenia's posts. She can make a great soap by rebatching.

welcome!!

(lard is absolutely fabulous in soap - I'm been swapping in lard for palm and am thrilled with the results!)

I agree with CB, once I tried lard, I never used palm again.

Welcome