Soap Makers Help! - Page 559

I've had good behavior with Lilac both from Sweetcakes and the Scentworks, at least as far as accelleration. The thing I hate about lilac is that lilac fo's tend to discolor towards yellow. I want nice purple soap, not the dingy gray that results from purple plus yellow.

MullersLaneFarm ~ You asked a question on another thread regarding goat milk soap being either poured or cold/hot pressed.  I like goat's milk soap and am curious about your question, whether it makes a difference to the consumer.

I know nothing about making soap...have enough hobbies, but I do buy it!!  haaaa

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Originally Posted by hannakat 

 

 being either poured or cold/hot pressed. 

It was about if the soap was made using a Melt & Pour base or if it was real soap made using hot or cold process.

They are two totally differently things with most of the M&P being a Syn Det (synthetic detergent) and hot or cold process being real soap made using base oils, then combined with lye dispersed in a liquid.  

Some milk soaps are made using milk as all of the liquid to dissolve and disperse the lye.  Other milk soaps will use a % of the liquid as milk and others yet use powdered milk.

Thought everyone would find this hilarious....for Easter we went camping in our motorhome and I always take a project for me and the kids to do. It was glycerin soap this time....made a HUGE mess and took 2 hrs to clean up lol. good thing it was soap just had to scrub and scrub and scrub lol. We got about 4 dozen funny looking soaps now...they all couldn't stop laughing about it here lol. This will supercede the exploding yams disaster from Thanksgiving a few yrs back now ...but thats another story altogether ROFL.

LOL!  At least you all had fun and that's what counts!

Sounds like a good time, CMommy!!!

Guess what, ya'll?  I just scored 100 pounds of Palm Oil for FREE!!!! 

Very cool, Itsy.

I feel the same way when we get our pigs processed every year and our customers don't want the leaf fat .... I get it all!  Let me tell you, there is a lot of lard from 6 old style Berkshire hogs!!

That's cool, Cyndi!  I need to learn how to refine animal fat..... hmm.........

On another topic - Anyone know of a company that would print me professional glossy soap wrappers?  I'm not talking about bands or boxes - I mean the full wrapper like you would see on an individual Ivory bar.

I've been searching all over the place and contacted a few corporations, but I don't know if they would work with someone small like me.

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Originally Posted by itsy 

That's cool, Cyndi!  I need to learn how to refine animal fat..... hmm.........

 

 

Can't help with the glossy wrappers, but can for rendering.  See my rendering page for the way I do it.