Sponiebr Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 Howdy all y'all. I'm brand new to this forum and hopefully I'm in the right place. I make CP soap, just functional stuff for me, and well those around me tend to guilt me out of some of my stock as well. (Who am I kidding?) I totally let them "guilt me" into pilfering my stock, 'cause I like making soap, and I like that they like my soap. Right now I'm fixing to get myself psyched up to make a batch of pine tar and peppermint soap for myself. I probably should double that batch this time, because that's the ONE soap that I don't have a lot of fun making, (can you say soap on a SB?). Past: I grew up on a farm in the middle of nowhere it was an abandoned orange grove that froze to the ground. We made soap from lard, and free/almost free mixed fat scraps from the butchers that I would wet render in the Florida summer heat out by the chicken coops... I'll say this: I don't use lard for soap anymore. The soap I made when I was growing up, it wasn't "nice" soap, it was just very functional soap that was used for cleaning and laundry and was most likely lye heavy. The stuff I make now is MUCH nicer soap. I haven't really every played with mica or oxides, but I'm hoping that is going to change soon. We also made candles growing up, but that was really more my sister's thing. I've done that as well. Just hand dipped candles (paraffin and stearic acid), maybe colored with a few left over crayons from those silly 3 packs of crayons that were given out at Halloween. I also did an ice cube hot cast candle once. The candle turned out fine, but it's a stupid and long story, and I didn't make any more. Oooh, Bagpipes... I play those, kinda and a few other musical instruments, (I play at them anyway). I made my best friend an uilleann practice set for his birthday (those are those bellows blown beautiful sounding Irish bag pipes). I'm a craftsman so I also make other stuff, just all kinds of stuff. I'm 41 divorced, currently married, and unfortunately, about to be divorced again very soon, much to my chagrin. I do have a child from my first marriage. I have to work for a living and I have to do that work at night. You'll probably pick up on this pretty soon, but in case I have fooled you thus far, I should probably let you know I can be, ever so sightly, (not that it's always a bad thing), long winded... I am NOT an expert on soap or basically anything on this forum and that is why I'm here, to learn. So just like in the beginning of Moby Dick, "Call me Ishmael", only it's, it's spelled "Sponie", (not Moby Dick... Ishmael...) Slainte, Sponie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jcandleattic Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 Welcome Sponie. Looks like I have a fellow Irish member!! YAY There is an awesome tutorial on Pine Tar soaps in the SOTM area, and she seems to keep hers fluid and not have it seize, if that helps at all. I look forward to seeing your posts. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TallTayl Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 Glad you found us Sponie 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sponiebr Posted August 20, 2016 Author Share Posted August 20, 2016 1 hour ago, Jcandleattic said: Welcome Sponie. Looks like I have a fellow Irish member!! YAY There is an awesome tutorial on Pine Tar soaps in the SOTM area, and she seems to keep hers fluid and not have it seize, if that helps at all. I look forward to seeing your posts. Cool! I'll check it out. Yeah I'm Irish/Scottish/Dutch/Mutt... I resigned myself long ago to just go with 3/4 Celt and Dutch (and I mention mostly Irish). LOL! I also play bodhrán, whistles(all) and I make and play my own version of the traverse low D flute. (I designed a few nifty improvements. ) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jcandleattic Posted August 20, 2016 Share Posted August 20, 2016 9 minutes ago, Sponiebr said: Cool! I'll check it out. Yeah I'm Irish/Scottish/Dutch/Mutt... I resigned myself long ago to just go with 3/4 Celt and Dutch (and I mention mostly Irish). LOL! I also play bodhrán, whistles(all) and I make and play my own version of the traverse low D flute. (I designed a few nifty improvements. ) I'm 50/50 Irish/German, but claim mostly the Irish side. My grandma spoke fluid Gaelic, but because it's considered incredibly rude to speak it around those who didn't, she rarely spoke it with us. I used to be able to hold a conversation with her when I was a kid, but haven't spoken it in years and can only remember a little bit without having to look certain things up. I speak no German at all except kazoontight (no idea how to spell it either! LOL) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sponiebr Posted August 20, 2016 Author Share Posted August 20, 2016 39 minutes ago, TallTayl said: Glad you found us Sponie I'm glad I had someone kind enough to point me here. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scented Posted September 11, 2016 Share Posted September 11, 2016 Welcome to the board Sponie! Sorry I'm late in greeting you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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