Buttsmom

They look great!!!

Very cool looking and not at all what I pictured by the name

I have been experimenting with a few different recipes with HP and none of my bars seem very hard. Some have been around a week or more. They aren't super soft, but I can still make an impression when I press hard on them. And most of them want to crack right across the center of the bar when you give it a little bend. Here's the recipe I used I thought had the best #'s. Hardness 44 Cleansing 19 Conditioning 51 Bubbly 24 Creamy 29 Iodine 54 INS 165 Coconut Oil 76 20% Castor Oil 5% Lard 50% Olive Oil 25% Superfat @ 7% Goat Milk 12.1 oz Lye 4.6 oz. Any ideas?

If I wait long 5 weeks is there any benefit to HP over CP then? I did them all in HP because I want to know if I'm going to like them now, not a month from now when I would have to start over and wait another month on my 2nd try and so on. I switched to the sunflower because I ran out of of olive and had the sunflower here. I will get more olive and try a bigger batch. What dimensions would I want a box/mold for 3 lbs?

No I'm not new to homemade soap, just mine:) I have used CP/HP from others and have been using melt and pour a lot. Here's the different recipes I have used all in 1 lb batches, since I don't want to make big batches of something I'm not going to like. 45% olive oil 25% lard 25% coconut oil 5% castor oil 30% olive oil 40% lard 25% coconut oil 5% castor oil 25% olive oil 40% lard 25% coconut oil 10% castor oil 25% sunflower oil 50% lard 20% coconut oil 5% castor oil 30% sunflower oil 50% lard 15% coconut oil 5% castor oil

Is coconut oil the only oil that can be drying? I have made 6 batches of Goat's Milk HP and so far everyone of them leaves my skin feeling dry afterwards. I have read not to use too much coconut oil and I have used from 25% down to 15%. All have been super fatted at 7%. In the first few batches I used coconut oil, castor oil, lard and olive oil. Once I ran out of olive oil I started using sunflower oil in the remaining batches.

I have a batch in right now that has been in for an hr and half, think next batch I will try it on high.

Hope it is feeling better today.

Thanks everyone. I will keep doing it on low. And just live with the brown, because vanilla is my favorite.

#1: What temp do you have your crock pot on when you make it? I've been making mine on low and it seems to take forever and it never folds over on itself. #2 In the last batch I made I used a vanilla (can't remember which one) and it turned my soap a dark brown color, I'm perfectly fine with that, but it leaves the dark brown color on the shelf in my shower too. Is that normal when a vanilla darkens the soap?

I did make it just like that last night, while not so bad I won't personally use it up in the shower, I did see where it needed changed. When I made it my GM was slushy/frozen from being in the fridge for a few hrs. I also kept the container I was mixing the gm and lye in an ice bath while I mixed it. Going to try changing the oils next batch.

Thanks I tried it with just adding the whiskey right after I had the lye mixture and oils combined. It didn't turn out bad, but I think the smell is too light, so I was thinking I would try burning it off next time. I also think when I use the whiskey the guy actually makes it will smell different too, right now I'm just practicing with a cheap bottle from the store.

I'm going to try this HP, thoughts on it? 12 oz lard 4 oz Coconut oil 5.28 oz Goat's Milk 2.45 oz Lye

I had a customer come in where I work today and he had been talking to one of the ladies that gets soap from me and he wanted to know if I could make him a Goat's Milk soap with whiskey in it. I have no idea, so I told him I would have to check. So can I?

Thanks, can you recommend a supplier for them?

I have a batch of lotion here I need to put in containers, what does everyone recommend?

Thanks, I do actually have a scale and I did convert the recipe before I made it, just forgot when I copied and pasted it from the site. Thanks for the tip about the 3 days, I didn't know that. I will try and be patient and wait for the final verdict on this one. Can I make it without a brittle oil? From the reading I did I don't have anything that would fall under that.

My lips are chapped, so I decided to try making lip balm. I don't like what I made, first it's too waxy( I hate that in a lip balm) and 2nd I don't think it did anything for my lips. What gives the lib balm the waxy feeling, is it just the wax you use, the oils, combo of all? This is the recipe I got on line and tried. 1 Tablespoon Mango Butter 2 Tablespoons Sunflower Oil 1 Tablespoon Olive Oil 1 Tablespoon plus 1 teaspoon Beeswax A few drops of Vitamin E Oil I want to try again with what I have here, but not sure what to try so I don't end up with another batch I'm not going to use. What I have: Mango Butter Shea Butter Beeswax Olive Oil Coconut Oil Grapeseed Oil Sunflower Oil Recommendations?

Not a candle, but I do make a soap I can't stand the smell of. I first made it hoping the smell would be better in soap then OOB, but it wasn't. I gave the first batch I made to a couple friends, because I was just going to throw it away. Well guess what, everyone that smells it loves it and asked me to make more.

Very cool!!!

I'm enjoying M&P soap, but think I'm ready to try making CP soap. Anyone have a small simple GM recipe to try for a newbie? I'd like to make a batch in my silicone bread pan, I don't want to make a big batch since I have to wait for a month to know if it turns out. I have actual GM milk to use in it. Oh and I would like it to be palm free, I googled and every recipe I found had palm in it. Thanks.

Thanks for your very thorough reply. I like the idea of a smaller batch for testing and will try that. I will adjust the FO's and Vit E to the correct % of the batch size I end up making. (It was early this morning and I wasn't calculating right before work) I'm working on putting a shopping cart together right now, what would be a couple good oils to try? And thanks for the tip on the containers, that was my plan to make them in little molds to try out first, but figured I would get ideas for containers later if it works out so I don't have to come back and perter you all again.

Thanks, where do you get your tubes at?

I've been doing a lot of reading on lotion bars(among other things) and I think that is what I'll try next. This is what I have come up with from the different posts I read and would like some feedback on it. 2 oz. White Beeswax Pastilles 1 oz. Shea Butter 1 oz. Mango Butter 2 oz. Castor Oil .5 oz FO .5 oz Vit E 2 tea. Cornstarch Would also appreciate any ideas on best containers to use.

They all sound interesting. Do you have any favorite recipes you would be willing to share?