EDUCATIONAL INCUBATION & HATCHING CHAT THREAD, w/ Sally Sunshine Shipped Eggs

[hippiestink]

sounds wonderful!!
I need to share with you on FB what we do with the kids, we will again this year, I havent done last year as I wasnt up to it. Its a countdown to Christmas wall, filled with daily treats and activities, from making icecream to giving thanks and so much more!! you will love starting the tradition up with your new one when they get about three!

so are nubs

I'm so excited to begin building traditions with Honeybee.

@hippiestink ugh I cant find that post, you said you DONT add stearic Acid?

Never have. Personally just adding salt to the lye water and doing CPOP gets a bar hard enough to unmold cleanly.

 

[daxigait]

I have a recipe for goat soap, but I was curious since you said yours lasts a long time. @Sally Sunshine

 

[daxigait]

I shot my buddy's .270 once. JUST once! That was plenty for me. Wasn't the recoil so much as the noise. GEEESH!
You know you can sight in a rifle, any rifle, with just 2 shots.
BTW, if anyone needs any ammo, Sportsmans Guide has a pretty good price on it right now. Just ordered 2 boxes of Remington .243

Still beats the choice which was a noisy hard kicking 30 06

 

[hippiestink]

So we went in for the 38 week visit, and a few things.

Tested positive for Strep B, so I get antibiotics when I go into labor. Also I'll probably need the immunoglobulin shot because Husband is O+ and I'm O-.

Also, my amniotic fluid is borderline, so tomorrow I go in for a fetal monitoring and if the fluid gets lower then they're going to induce me. Fingers crossed that I make it to the 15th.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

For me I like to keep my soap recipes VERY simple. At most I tend to use three oils in various ways: beef tallow, olive oil, and coconut oil. My base recipe is either 100% olive oil or 100% tallow, though you'll get best beginner results from a combination of olive oil and coconut oil. Case in point, the recipe I have for the Dead Sea mud soap:

200g coconut oil
300g olive oil
74.28g sodium hydroxide lye
165g water

And then I just add whatever fragrance or colorants I want. Figure out what is available to you cheaply and create recipes based on that! Brambleberry/Soap Queen is a fantastic resource for absolute newbies.



Personally I adore NOW Foods essential oils, Authentic Oil Co., Brambleberry, and Mystic Moments essential oils. Those are the best 4 brands I've used for the price.

@daxigait

your awesome! Thanks so much!
see I did learn something and you confirmed it! plus more crap on the label makes it look too .... hmmm processed? commercial? I do take notes from you, thanks so much for all the help!

This is what I have and don't plan on getting anything else.... (as far as oils)
Beef tallow
olive oil
(always have cooking oils, canola & soybean)
Coconut oil
Almond oil

oh...
Castor for suds
and Shea butter for SF
(beeswax & stearic acid too)

I am ordering sodium lactate soon, since I make milk soap it seems its best to have a preservative in it?

 

[hippiestink]

your awesome! Thanks so much!
see I did learn something and you confirmed it! plus more crap on the label makes it look too .... hmmm processed? commercial? I do take notes from you, thanks so much for all the help!

This is what I have and don't plan on getting anything else.... (as far as oils)
Beef tallow
olive oil
(always have cooking oils, canola & soybean)
Coconut oil
Almond oil

oh...
Castor for suds
and Shea butter for SF
(beeswax & stearic acid too)

I am ordering sodium lactate soon, since I make milk soap it seems its best to have a preservative in it?

Lactate will do the same thing as stearic but typically cold and hot process soap doesn't really need a preservative. The Ph is so low in soap that the ingredients normally don't go bad. HOWEVER, it's always a good idea to have a preservative if you aren't sure! I use preservatives if I add something like fruit or veggie puree to a soap.

All those oils are solid oils to keep on hand! I usually have rapeseed/canola oil, coconut oil, olive oil, sunflower seed oil, and tallow on hand because they're cheap.

 

[daxigait]

I get caught up, and everyone is gone.

 

[Sally Sunshine]

So we went in for the 38 week visit, and a few things.

Tested positive for Strep B, so I get antibiotics when I go into labor. Also I'll probably need the immunoglobulin shot because Husband is O+ and I'm O-.

Also, my amniotic fluid is borderline, so tomorrow I go in for a fetal monitoring and if the fluid gets lower then they're going to induce me. Fingers crossed that I make it to the 15th.

I tested positive too, thank goodness not a big deal!
what does the immune shot due?
hmm I don't like the fluid level, you should have plenty, is there anything you can do? I pray you go till you need to! I was three weeks early with Dustyn and he was a mess at birth, he was right at the stage where his growth boomed and his lungs didn't, so his lungs ruptured, pushed his lil heart over into the side and man, what a time that was. But he is with us Thank God for that!! he is a miracle baby for sure!!

 

[daxigait]

So we went in for the 38 week visit, and a few things.

Tested positive for Strep B, so I get antibiotics when I go into labor. Also I'll probably need the immunoglobulin shot because Husband is O+ and I'm O-.

Also, my amniotic fluid is borderline, so tomorrow I go in for a fetal monitoring and if the fluid gets lower then they're going to induce me. Fingers crossed that I make it to the 15th.

Wow. I can't wait to

 

[kwhites634]

Still beats the choice which was a noisy hard kicking 30 06

I really like that .243 of mine. My .30/.30 doesn't kick too bad, but the .243 doesn't kick at all by comparison, and I don't believe it's as loud. With a 100 gr. bullet, it's a great varmint rifle, but will still stop a deer in it's tracks with a well placed shot. I'm not a trophy hunter, so if I can I'll aim for the head shot. They either drop on the spot, or run off w/o a scratch, but none of this tracking a sporadic blood trail required.