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Great articles, I too am still on the fence about soy. I sell it, as people do like it, but I think I'll always be a paraffiin girl at heart. Thanks for the info!!

Holy, thems some fine lookin soaps!! Loving the blue swirly one.

Wow, those all look great, but I really love that Arctic Raspberry, fantastic swirl on that one!!

Hi all, need a bit of quick help if you could. I found a recipe for cucumber soap I want to try and am having a hard time figuring out how much water to substitue with the cukes. Do you simply replace equal amounts of water with cucumber puree? Say I take 8 oz. of water away, do I then add 8 oz. cukes? The reason I ask is because the recipe I found it too big, I can figure out how to reduce it in soapcalc but when I run it through the calculator it gives me the full water amount. This will be my first time replacing water with something else, just cant seem to get my head aound it yet. Thanks for any help!!

Ohh that looks just luscious....I love mango....I think I see it in my future

At first I was afraid of how it would smell, got kind of funky smelling as I poured it, but your right it did cure out and smells quite nice now, wholesome is a good way to put it.

Wow...thats some crazy cool looking soap there, very pretty!!!

Here are the cut pics, I'm most pleased with the color now, turned out better than I was imagining. I think I will make this again, will just make sure to freeze my gm first next time.

Thanks guys, it didn't smell scorched to me. I mixed my lye and oils, added the gm at a really light trace and mixed some more. When I added the honey it started to change colors. I don't mind the color, think it's kind of honeyish, just thought it was wierd all of a sudden.

I just started soap not that long ago, this is my 4th batch. No scent, no dye, just has ground oatmeal, goat's milk, and of course honey. Quick question...what causes the funky color? I thought I read that the milk can cause the orange color, but I added it when my lye water was fairly cool, only 4 oz. milk in the whole batch. Just curious. Thanks for looking.

I have been searching high and low for lye locally, finally found some at my local hardwear store, by Rooto Corp. The lable says " Crystals of Household %100Lye Drain Opener". Just wanted to know if anyone else uses this brand? Is it ok? I looked online at the Rooto corp. website for an MSDS on this and can't find it. Just wanted to make sure before I use it. Thanks for the help

I really have no room to talk as I have yet to make soap, however I would have to disagree...natural soap is awesome if done properly. All you have to do is check out the B&B gallery to see that. I think some of the cutesy 3D molded soaps are just kind of tacky looking myself. They look like they were made to sit in a bowl and look pretty and collect dust. I'd rather share my shower or bath with a great bar of natural soap than a foo foo looking bar of m&p. Just my opinion tho.

My hubby just did my pots for me too last week. I am equally as excited , I tell ya I could just kiss whoever came up with that idea

ohhhhh purdy!! Good luck with the drilling, hope they make it

I love this scent, its not really herbal more of a fresh clean scent to me. I have had a slight issue with is smelling kind of fuel-y at times in paraffin, but otherwise I really enjoy it.