Carrie

I use wick pins from the outside and a level. Before I pour I make sure the mold is perfectly level. I haven't had a problem.

Finally finished the last of the products in the swap.

TexasBrat I like the pink sugar smell, very nice. It had nice bubbles and lather, not drying at all.

mysticglow I love this bar of soap. The scent was pretty mild but that was fitting for the scent. However, this is the first time I've used an OO Soap. Wow, I could feel the difference immediately. I'm definately saving this recipe to try soon.

Lorrie I really like the scent of your bar and it stayed on for a while after the shower. No dryness and good lather and bubbles.

KJBell Very mild scent. I really like the feel of lard soaps.

Krystal Kreations I really like this combo of lavender and chamomile. Where did you get it, or did you mix it? Nice lather, not drying.

Blue Skies I had some trouble getting this soap to lather or bubble. I was nice on the skin, just almost no bubbles. The scent was nice and it wasn't a bit drying. I am looking at the bar right now and it is so shiny. It's dark right now and the only light is from the monitor and this bar is totaly shiny. Kinda neat.

There, done. Wow. Sorry it took so long to get all these done.

Now I need to finish the last batch of votives from the summer swap, oops.

When are you gonna do another babbasu coop shutter? Ya'll have everyone talked into using it, now make it available. LOL

Thanks for the link. I beleive Agbanga has an office in Seattle, shipping should be decent. You might call and ask for a sample.

Also, I don't know the name of the company that took over TDF butters, but when the dish comes up, that's where I saw it. Or email TDF, they'll tell you.

HTH

http://www.candletech.com/forums/showthread.php?t=2905

This is a picture of eugenia's forhead after she burned it with lye.

Be Careful!!!

Hey Gerrie,

I got some from Keystone also. I got smileys and flowers. They are much larger than I thought they'd be. They seem too big to hang from the mirror in the car. I also ordered some of the sheets to play with making my own designs.

I heard they stopped selling butters and another supplier in the same area is handling thier butters now. I also heard the prices are a little higher.

My dream mold is a log mold that I can swirl in, then put the inserts in, like a kelsei, but log. I would also be able to change it from 2 to 4 to 6 lbs easily and it doesn't need to be lined.

That's my dream mold. I bet it doesn't help you though. Personally I like log molds, I like the shape of the soap that comes out of them. I also like that cutter that was like an egg slicer. All the wires and it cuts logs all at one time. But again, I'm dreaming.

I looked at it but don't know enough about soaping to just know when a recipe is good or not. That's why I didn't respond. give it time, it's only been posted for an hour. There aren't as many soapers here as at the Dish, sometimes it can take a little while to get someone experienced to see your post.

Patience Grasshopper:p

I just bought some from Kangaroo Blue.

http://www.kangarooblue.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=204&zenid=5ea7861f6afc3835092b02527b3da50a

HTH

I always check mine for zap when I cut it. Sometimes there is a tiny zap and that goes away in a few days. Only once did I get a big zap, yikes.

Congratulations, BTW. Edited to add that.

I went to the store and bought sheer curtains then melted the beeswax and strained thru the curtain material. I folded the material 3 times, so 8 thickness. I had to strain it 2 times to get most of the gook out of it.

Good luck, it was a sticky gooey mess when I did it.

Try this page. Lots of samplings

http://www.sks-bottle.com/340c/SampleIndex.html

Oh man! 3 weeks?

http://www.todieforsoap.com/

hth

I have a hunch that it had something to do with heating the FO with the heat gun.:embarasse

You're kidding, right? Next time just warm it in a bowl of warm water and don't forget to loosen the lid a bit.

Sounds like a good deal.

I don't think it's Pomace but I just bought Olive oil at Sam's Club 169oz. (10lb9oz) for $20.99. I thought that was a pretty good price compared to the grocery store.

Wow! We don't have any Sam's Club's around here, only Costco. I haven't seen any deals like that. Way to go.

Want my newbie, maybe not good advise?

I have rebatched 3 times. The first time I did it exactly like I was told. I didn't add any water. The soap was like marshmallow cream when it was melted and I hated the end result when it was unmolded. Threw it away.

The next rebatch I added distilled water. I don't know how much, I just kept adding water to the melted soap and using the SB until it was like medium trace. It was a beautiful rebatch, it looks and feels just like regular CP, only better looking than the original ugly bar.

My third rebatch was 3 days ago. My SB was at my moms so I used a whisk. I don't advise a whisk. I got suds and more suds. It was ugly. I finally got it un-chunky and poured it into muffin pans. I put it in the freezer the next day to get the soap out and it wasn't coming out. I ended up having to pry it out and now they are not only ugly with dried out suds on the top, there are holes in the sides from the knife I used to pry them out of the mold.

If you have learned anything from this it should be not to take my advise on rebatching anything.

HTH

Carrie

For those in the Northwest, I bought the OO Pomace at Yokes Pac N'Save. Top shelf in the bulk isle.

I went to a a local grocery store chain I almost never go to today. I found Olive Pomace in gallon tins for $13.26 a gallon. I bought some because I hadn't been able to find it anywhere else. I got home and looked online for prices. Soapers Choice is $13.72 for 7 lbs and WSP was $18.60 for 7.5 lbs. I think I found a pretty good deal.

Maybe the rumor was started by someone who was selling the warmers that melt from the top, the ones with lights?

Not an expert here! If you've decided it isn't lye then I would cut a thin layer off the soap and see if the white spots come back.

Is Kimberly the only one who can fix it?

specks of the paper maybe? Is there dust in your curing area, or a fan that could blowing stuff around?

These are great. I'm still waiting to burn the gourd you gave me. I love it.