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It's horrible threads like this that have had me making soap the last couple days. Little batches and nothing I wish to show off but still at it. Love BYC!

Darn it, now I MUST make some oatmeal soap with all the lovely bars I see. I am also planning to build a wooden mold and bar slicer. I have some tuning pins left over from when I made door harps and some old banjo strings to make the cutting wires. Must clean up the shop and get to it!

Quote: Beautiful round bars you have there! I must start eating chips more often so I can have some Pringle's cans! I made some bars using a bit of beet juice in the lye water and they came out the most wonderful yellow (added beet juice while lye was still hot- hence it changed from red to...

Ahh you're right! I need to keep that crockpot to infuse herbs! I plan to try infusing thyme. Do I ever love thyme! And might try basil too just to see if it holds up. Could you infuse canola oil rather than olive oil? Or any oil that you'll use in the soap? I love olive oil soap but I'm going...

I've done hot process soap in a crockpot successfully but this thread led to me making my first batch of cold process blender soap. OMG *throws out the crockpot* so much easier! I made a batch of laundry soap, I wanted it really harsh and stuff but the soap turned out wonderful. Nice, good...