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Soap makers Soap SWAP!
Curious, what kind of difference do ya notice using veggie shortening as opposed to lard? -
Soap makers Soap SWAP!
Hiyall, First, thank you for your well wishes ... so very much! Next, prayers are always appreciated and welcome. Right now we need the doctors to be able to find out what is wrong in my back. For almost a year now nobody can find it and it's getting worse. The surgery is for a spinal... -
Post your FIRST EGG pics!
We got our first eggs from our first chickens today! It seems like it took FOREVER for them to show! Now to figure out who is laying what ... hehehehe Shot from the phone camera I also need to get them to lay the eggs in the nest boxes and not on the floor!- Don
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Soap makers Soap SWAP!
Hi folks, I'm afraid I'm going to have to have you take me off the list for the swap. Things aren't going well with my back, I probably wont be making any for a while. My sincere apologies. Hopefully this implant will go well and I'll be back to it soon. Best of luck to y'all! Peace... Don -
Soap makers Soap SWAP!
ok ... so long as nobody has high hopes from mine, you can count me in. Peace! Don -
Soap Makers Help!
I hope I'm not re-posting a question that was already asked, but... If you could recommend one book on making soap, and JUST one, which would it be? And, if ya wanna throw it in there, why would you recommend it? Kinda like, the GENERAL consensus about chicken books is to get Storey's Guide to... -
Soap Makers Help!
Wow Morgaine, those are some AWESOME lookin soaps!!! Ya know, all this hoopla about digital scales has me lookin into how soaps were made before all that. When my grandma wouldn't even use a balance beam type. I still wanna get one because consistency is a great thing ... but it just makes me... -
Soap Makers Help!
Quote: Can you calibrate your scale?? or maybe it's time to pony up and get a digital I'll end up getting a digital I'm sure ... unless I can find a nice balance beam somewhere. LOL -
Soap Makers Help!
OK, so it appears that my molds are going to work ... once I can get my recipe issues figured out. So here's what I did: I went to Lowes and got a 10 foot length of pvc rain gutter stock and 4 snap-on OUTSIDE fit end caps w/gaskets. (They have inside fit ones, I don't think I'd care for them.)... -
Soap Makers Help!
Quote: LOVE LOVE LOVE the chocolate soaps! Those look so nice!!! Dont get me wrong, they both look really nice ... but those chocolate's just look so smoooooooooth. Hehehehehe -
Soap Makers Help!
Quote: Ya know, I'd like too but the breakfast soaps are more like breakfast jells. I think I'll probably end up having to scrap them. I do have the ones from the silicone molds but my lovely bride wanted scents and all I could find was fragrance, not oils. So the flower soaps are a vanilla... -
Soap Makers Help!
Quote: This is very strange. I just made a second batch yesterday and it appears to be doing the same thing. Was very slow to trace as well. Although no ingredients have changed from the first couple batches. I'm gonna have to try that method of adding coffee. Since my wife manages a... -
Soap Makers Help!
Quote: Hey there Cyndi... That was the last one from me that I saw also ... but not the last one I posted. Perhaps I hit the wrong button and didn't actually post it .. who knows. I'll just blame it on Mad Cow and move on. Hehehehe Yep, with a stick blender ... it was really strange. Usually...
