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I've used: heavy duty cardboard boxes shoe boxes wooden craft boxes pvc pipe

I started with M&P (2 batches) and got totally hooked on soaping. For me CP is challenging in that you have to pay close attention to what you are doing and it is also a great creative outlet at the same time.

For your oils and butters that you can't get locally check out Oils by Nature or Columbus Foods online.

Me too.

The very idea of putting deer pee on myself makes me ill. From what I understand you definitely don't want to get near bear country smelling like that either.

Either way you go, it all sounds rather disgusting in my opinion.

They did mention doe something as working. However, it wasn't pee. They definitely didn't believe soap was the trick though.

I mentioned Hunter's/Fisherman's soap to some serious hunting/fishing friends yesterday to get their opinion. I didn't think they were going to stop laughing at me.

Please give me your opinions on these recipes. TIA. cleansing/mechanic bar with pumice Coco 76 - 10% Palm - 15% PKO - 30% Crisco - 40% Olive - 5% Hard-48% Clean - 25% Cond - 46% Bub-25% Creamy-22% cheap but usable (mainly for learning swirls) Crisco-40% coco 76-15% Palm-15% PKO-15% Castor-5% Olive-10% Hard-42 clean-19 cond-53 Bub-24 creamy-27 Thanks again.

From one newbie to another, when you run across something new always take good notes.

I'm interested.

The lye was my major concern. Thanks for your help.

Didn't use fo or dye in half of it. The other half I did and almost wound up with soap on a stick - I was literally slamming and smooshing into the mold - a new experience. I guess this is one of the things that definitely keeps soaping fun and challenging!

The recipe has traced a little fast in previous batches, but not nearly this fast. I was extremely careful - used a checklist as it went in the pot and measured in grams.

I just changed over to a local lye supplier that also handles alot of cp supplies. My lye water turned pale yellow. I have never had that happen before. The lye is the only change in this recipe everything else is the same brand as before. This batch also traced ALOT faster than it has before. Any comments anyone? TIA