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Wow Fairy, Leave it to me to pick such an unusual recipe huh. Maybe something good will come out of this for all of us!! Connie

Well don't know what happened had a huge reply all typed and PAGE NOT DISPLAYED lost it for me. Won't be trying till at least next week. Son getting married Sat. Will be gone till Sunday then work all day Monday. Have small bottle of Walnut oil from grocer, if it does not impart something wonderful to finished product I don't care how much we use. I have combination skin-very dry face in cold weather. I'm not dead set on this recipe-only copied it exactly as I found it on another site. Had all oils but Meadowfoam & Soybean so thought I could try it. Have done 2 successful CP batches (really like my coffee soap) and one flopped(recipe from MMS I believe). Eugenia said the recipe wasn't too good to begin with-no cleansing properties. Which brings me to the next question since you are being so nice-if I grate and rebatch that flopped batch can I add coconut oil at that point to give it some lather or is it just to late? I messed with SOOZ a few weeks ago and was not having luck figuring it out. Usually pretty good at that type of stuff but just didn't get the directions. I really want to learn it though. After the wedding I should have more time to play with it. Well don't forget me, I may be on sporadically for the next three days what with traveling (2 1/2 hour drive) to and from wedding and getting the whole thing pulled off. Maybe I can try this next week if we get the bugs worked out. Thanks so much to you all for helping, I truly appreciate it. Connie OH and I would like to make 15-18 bars of this if you think it's a good recipe.

Hi, I found this recipe and would like some input from you seasoned soapers. Does it look like a good recipe? (Still haven't had time to figure out SOOZ yet, hopefully next week). Also what could I sub for Meadowfoam & Soybean-don't have those? What is sodium lactate and its use? Can I leave that out??I haven't been brave enough to try any milk yet. Do you suppose the coconut milk will cause me probs? Thanks All;) Olive oil 9 oz Coconut oil 14.4 oz Palm Kernel oil 10 oz Cocoa Butter 9 oz Grapeseed oil 6 oz Walnut oil 5 oz Palm oil 4.1 oz Meadowfoam oil 4 oz Castor oil 4 oz Soybean oil 2.5 oz Almond oil, sweet 2 oz NaOH (5% lye discount) 11.13 oz Liquid 24 oz*Note: My liquid amount consisted of water 10.1 oz and 13.9 oz of canned coconut milk. At the end of the "cook" just before molding, I added: Sodium lactate 2.5 oz Ultramarine 1/2 teaspoon (approx. 2-3 ml) premixed into, FO 1.5 oz

Money up front for sure. Read Sally Kate's post !! Can't trust people these days sad to say. Glo

I'm with the other poster. You should go now and HI in Jan. Sure this is difficult for you with Mom working there and all. Do ya ever wonder why other people have to make life so difficult? Glo

What does SAO stand for? Glo

I have BCN witches brew and it's an earthy- woodsy scent. Someone at a show called it patchouli. I've never smelled patchouli so I don't know. GLO

My son uses orange creamsicle from Early American Candle Supply. Smells exactly like the ice cream bar. His soy in this are out of this world!! Prices aren't too bad at EAC either.

Robin is correct. My son uses the hex advertised as 11 oz. We sell them as a 9 oz candle.

I've been searching for that jar for a couple of months. Only thing I can find is already filled with a candle. Called Pumpkin & Squash Jar by A Cheerful Giver.

Thanks much, I'll play with it later in week. Gotta go back to work tomorrow. Chill out may begin in 2 1/2 weeks and one day. LOL. First kiddo to get married and he's doing it 2 1/2 hours away. Worried how to transport my cookie cakes when & if I get them done. We're usually packed like sardines when we go to his place as it is.

Trying to figure out SOOZ. Got the oils in but running into trouble with water. Did recipe as I repeated to you Eugenia. Oils= 79.4 ounces. Is the diff the water? How do I add the water to calculator? Or am I to figure the % of the oils rather than put in the ounces (hope not-mathmatically challenged at times).Brain dead today:) The instructions are not helpful to me for some reason. GLO Pretty much what I said above. When you put in oils are you putting in amount in ounces of each oil used or do you need to figure percent of each oil from of the total oils in recipe? How do you put the water in? Is it part of the total ounces in recipe along with the oil or is it separate? Water as % of oils:confused: ???? Am I to put in lye amt or does it figure for me? I total my oils to 79.4 and when I compute it says I need 20.6% more. I understand 79.4 and 20.6=100%, but I don't know where I'm to get 20.6% more. % of lye of water & lye, water lye ratio? Do I figure these? This is based on my crappy recipe in previous post. Just trying to see if I can plug in #'s an get same answers as you Eugenia. Then I'll know I'm using calculator correctly. I think I'm rambling, sorry- having a bad day here. Should be baking cookies for son's wedding in 2 1/2 weeks but I'm a major procrastinator and the stress is going to get me!!! Didn't really feel like baking so I played with soap instead and the evil fairies were here to put me in my place. Who will they visit next!!!! Thanks for your patience.

No I didn't leave any room in can. I'm feeling more and more soap challenged as this day goes on. Sooz has me stumped:confused: I'm not usually this dumb. Must have been the soap fumes as the volcano cooked on the oven floor.LOL

Trying to figure out SOOZ. Got the oils in but running into trouble with water. Did recipe as I repeated to you Eugenia. Oils= 79.4 ounces. Is the diff the water? How do I add the water to calculator? Or am I to figure the % of the oils rather than put in the ounces (hope not-mathmatically challenged at times).Brain dead today:) The instructions are not helpful to me for some reason. GLO

I was beginning to wonder about the recipe myself. I used to make a very basic soap years ago and never had a flopped batch like this one. I wondered as soon as I washed my hands from cleaning up and got no lather about the lack of coconut oil in recipe. I'm just beginning again so definitely consider myself a newbie to this type of soapmaking. This was my second batch(diff recipe). I didn't realize crisco wasn't soybean. I read somewhere else that it was, checked my label and just as you said SB & CS. Would the cottonseed cause some problems? What exactly is hydrogenated soybean then? A supermarket item? I just did a LONNNGGG round trip to WSP and didn't get soybean. Not sure about the slime only used small amt Fo in 1/2 the batch, all seems oily. May have to check out how to rebatch-haven't tried that yet. Can I add new oils like coconut in a rebatch? I used crisco in first batch of soap, it did call for veg shortnening. I also realized small batches would be better till I find out how the recipes turn out. Can you halve recipes? Sorry for the book and thank you all for you wonderful suggestions. Connie

Yep, except for the color and my soap is very oily we have a matching pair. I thought about taking a pic but was too ashamed. LOL. Any ideas of why my perfectly traced batch went haywire during CPOP? Wish I'd have CPOPED half and cured half for a comparison. Maybe I tried a sucko recipe or my subbing RBO sucked??? Guess everyone is working today, I was beginning to think I have another of my boring problems and no one was going to talk to me. Seems I rarely get many replies to my posts. I feel unloved:( Oh well I went ahead and tried coffee soap anyway, so far so good. Looks like a nice thick beef gravy with lots of black pepper right now. Time will tell.

Gee, between you and Ducky I feel like a failure. Your firsts are so beautiful. Hope I grow up just like you two some day. LOL. Was thinking of posting my pic but think I'll skip it now, maybe I should just post the washcloths I knitted to go with the soap-they did turn out good!! Connie:D

Wow that looks great. Everyone is so adventurous doing swirls first time around. I still can't decide how to color mine let alone try to swirl!! LOL. Tried paprika for a nice orange and got a blah tan Go figure. Awesome soap!!

I unmolded the "soap". Its quite soft, not mushy just very oily and soft. No lather to speak of. The side not touching the mold is kind of bubbly looking. Had a definite "boil over' in the pringles cans. Looks like lava rolling down a volcano. I put the lids back on maybe that had something to do with that?? Thought it would work instead of saran as I had seen someone say their saran had melted. Used freezer paper on the rest. I used a few silicone molds sprayed with a little PAM.I'm bummed, it looked so good before I put it in the oven. I haven't tried to get it out of the pringles cans yet. Do you just try to open the bottom and push it out?? I'm hoping it will improve a little if I cure it a while. Don't suppose the lather will improve though right?? Here is the recipe I used-from MMS: Oatmeal Cinnamon Soap: 7.8 Castor Oil 12.4 OO(subbed Rice Bran-saw that Robin used it). 12 Safflower 38 Hyd. Soybean(crisco) 9.2 lard 30 H2O 10.08 Lye 8 ground oatmeal 1T cinnamon I don't have a scale for the.00's I'm usually pretty good at approximating. Left 1/2 soap as is and added OMH about 1/2 oz to the remainder(from WSP). I wanted to do coffee soap today-maybe I should skip the CPOP part?? Any advise greatly appreciated. Connie

I did my first cpop soap tpday. Cinnamon oatmeal. Hope it is doing what it should. It looked great when I poured it, then I put it in oven at 170 for 2 hours covered with freezer paper. I've peeked (maybe I shouldn't have opened oven?). I did 2 pringles cans and the soap grew. It overflowed the can. The flat molds look kind of mushy and bubbly on top. Is this how it looks till it cures up? Recipe had crisco, rice bran (subbed this for olive),safflower,lard and castor as main ingredients. Any ideas if I have soap or a mess? At least what is on the oven floor will be put to good use!! Connie

Wow a 10.00 booth fee. That sure doesn't happen in my neck of the woods. Sounds like our usual take for the day is similar (son & I sell together, I never make as much as he does, he does the container end of the biz), but our booth fees are minimum of 40.00 (rarely) and usually more like 100.00 to 150.00 (sometimes for 2 days). The really good shows can cost around 700.00 for 3 days. All the people we have met in the circut seem to make much more than us lowely chandlers. 700-1500.00 for shows we make 400-500.00 for. Figure in gas and all the other expenses and it's not much. My son pays for most everything at this point cause I just started and wanted to see if my stuff is even going to sell. Hope the fall shows are better.

So cute Paulette. Love them, Connie

Another question about lining a mold. I got those bread pans, circle, star etc. for long tubes of bread-how would you line the star, or would you spray it with Pam or something?? Connie

Are you OK? We haven't heard an update since your first post. I'm picturing you all shriveled up from the sunburn. Please tell us you are all moisturized and hydrated from some of our suggestions.

Made my first Cp soap with veg oils on Sunday and suddenly realized OO is going to be very $$. Have to try your sugestions. Connie