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Hello all, some may remember a few months back my posting about using coconut oil as the main oil for soap bars. After receiving many helpful posts from the community, I decided to try and can truthfully say I'm glad that I did. It was suggested to take 20% sf ( I had read earlier on another forum that coconut oil was to harsh and shouldn't be used as the main oil for soaping.) I used my first bar of the soap when cured at 6 weeks and found that at first, it felt odd on my hands, little harsh, but creamy with small bubbles. Then at 8 weeks of curing, the soap felt really creamy and cleansing with small bubbles; no harshness. I feel that an 8 week cure for this soap works best for me and I do like the feel of the soap, it will be one of my main soap making recipes from now on.

I ordered 10 one oz samples of fo from NG, their minimum according to UPS is 10/lb, so I think what Filmore charged you was definitely over the limit

Very pretty as usual.

Shame we can't smell them sitting at the monitor

Sounds interesting

Thank you everyone for your replies, I'm going to make another batch using this mold again, so I'll just have to see what happens. Might try an all OO recipe and note the results----------- actaully didn't want to have to freeze before unmolding tho thats what I ended up doing

I poured a 3 lb batch of cp soap into a round pvc pipe sprayed with cooking spray and lined with freezer paper and then insulated. After 12 hours or so, I took the insulation off and let the soap sit in the mold for about 3 days as it was still fairly soft. I ended up freezing the soap about and hour before I could finally push it out of the mold. Does anyone have a better method that they use? I may end up using pringles and peeling the sides away instead. Thought about using crisco to grease the inside of the mold and not lining with freezer paper. Any thoughts, please? Thank you in adance

Very pretty, they'd sure look great on my mantle

Thanks for the reviews GailC and number2of 7, your descriptions are great. I've ordered from Cierra sometime ago, I do remember great customer service, think I'll have to put in an order

Thank you, that makes sense, I use both waxes, but it gets a little tedious when I do want to use soy because I don't have a lot fo's that are guaranteed to work with it.

This has probably been addressed on the board, I apologize in advance if it has been. Are there some FO 's that work in soy wax or paraffin only or just the fact that one oil may work better in soy or paraffin than another? As long as I've been making candles, I never questioned that until now and I've always tested regardless.

Some online shopping, maybe. Then experimenting with a cp soap recipe and pouring into my pvc pipe mold. AND catching the Christmas movies that've been around this year since Halloween

beautiful soaps

Thank you for posting. A lot of helpful info, never did I think about the wattage on the warmers having an affect on tarts. I'm just now trying to make them, I have a scentsy and one BHG i got from Walmart, both plug in the wall, I'm testing a paraffin pillar/gb 464 blend. The tarts have cured a week and smell strong, but tested in the BHG warmer, 15 watt bulb, and one square melt, the ht wasn't that great, so guess I'll try 2 squares and go from there, they smell so strong in the clamshell tho.

Thanks guys for all of the replies, gives one a lot to choose from

Love your soaps

Thats it, thank you

Wow, good for you, thats just unreal

Not long at all, it seems

i use different containers also, but I usually test before a final candle is made in that container,especially if I am giving as gift

Wishing you luck, if I understand right, they havene't made wicks with lead in them in years, so one has wonder where their info is coming from. I personally don't have a preference, I use both waxes and can find good features in both of them, some people don't have enough to do in their day I guess. Keep us posted please, I'd love to see a video of your broadcast just in case

Maybe they didn't realize that they meant candles OR they really are in the dark

Yes, I just dont think its worth the trouble, I'm using htp in a large glass (very heavy weight) star shaped container now, its doing fine

I've ordered wicking from them but nothing else, I would like to try Filmore Containers for the Christmas Wreath Fo , if I have the name of the oil right, its one thats supposed to close to a BB dupe?