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This is such a great idea thank you! From now on when I make pancakes I'm going to play a little bit first. LOL

Search Google Video for hand milled soap and there's a few video tutorials on there. I saw one not long ago and the woman puts shredded cp soap into zip locks on stove and goes through the process in the video. http://video.google.com/videosearch?hl=en&q=hand+milled+soap+&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wv

Walmart SuperCenter foodstores here have the Armour brand in both pound size and a larger sized bucket as well.

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Post # 2 in tutorial....

Take a small bowl and add 3 TBS of olive oil. Microwave until warm, a minute or less. Add 3 tsp of dried parsley. If you have a food processor or grinder, you can grind it first. Stir, cover and place in a sunny window until tomorrow. We will be using the parsley oil to color our soap.

Do that the day before, then when she gets to the adding color part, you use that mixture.

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When the oils go from clear to opaque (the soap will be thin), pour some into a measuring cup or bowl for coloring. I poured about one third of the soap into a measuring cup after about 5 minutes of the whisk. If you want to, you can use the stick blender if you feel you are not making progress. I did not. If you do, use it in short blasts, hand stirring with the stick blender in between.

I did this recipe and didn't strain the dyed oil. Just make sure you make the parsley liuke powder in a grinder if you have one. Coffee grinder works well.

Thank you! I just measured an 8 oz ball jar I found. I forgot I had it. LOL It was like 2 1/2 inches and I can get those from Ace Hardware locally so I sent in that size to them, and the 3 inch for my Madison jars. I can't wait to try these wick holders. They look so cool! LOL

Thanks Satin Ducky!

I think that would make a great smell remover on hands. I know they say that tomato gets out skunk smell, so it would do wonders for the skin too I'd think. In the bottle, it looks yummy!

Beautiful soaps!

Yeah it makes me think of a baby shower or something. Very pretty!

It could be the color? I don't buy much in the way of baby blue anything. It's a beautiful candle. It can't be the design thing. Has to be the color.

I love the colors! Very pretty design!

I won the egg hunt day 1 and one of the prizes was some WickCenteringTool products. Well they contacted me and said if I don't do pillars, I can get more of the container tools instead in sizes I'd need. Now I do only 1 container so far which is 3 inch diameter. I don't know any other containers but I know wicking over 3 inches is harder. My question would be, what other sizes would be a good investment to mention in what they should send me? Like what's an average mason jar diameter for instance? Like ones you'd get from Walmart.

Love the swirls and bet they smell great too!

Fun and pretty!

Your soaps are beautiful!

Wonder if we could use like some powdered sugar free drink mix to add to ground castile to give the flavor? It wouldn't go bad right? No eo on hand and low on funds, so just wondering. LOL

Beautiful soaps!!! Love the pink and purple one the most!

That look reminds me of like the angry clown bars.

Thanks for sharing your recipe Soapfreak!

We go through a ton of toothpaste here and it would be great if I could convince everyone to use this stuff. Worth a try!

Great looking impression the stamp leaves! Beautiful soaps too!

I love them all but especially love the middle one! Beautiful!

OMG I love it!!!

Very cool patterns you have going on there. Trippy for sure!

I love them all but really love the last one! Beautiful!

Very nice texture!