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pitbullmomma said:
It does, it smells up the whole house. :)

Making soap is difficult, yes. It is a LOT of math and science. If you don't know what you are doing, you can burn your eyes out, or your skin. You are working with lye. Your calculations have to be exact, you have to have a gram scale, you have to have the proper protective equipment.

When I make soap, my kitchen looks a bit like something out of Breaking Bad, lol!

I've been making my own soap for about 25+ years. I used to sell it. Belonged to a group called Michigan Soapmakers--we used to have yearly conventions/get togethers. Now, I just do it to keep my own stash going, and to give as the occasional gift. It's pretty time-consuming, even for a small 3 pound batch (my usual).
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But you can also do melt and pour which is easy and less dangerous!
 
TexasSam said:
The roads are getting icy here and people are sliding around bunch of amateurs
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One things for sure icy roads don't care if its 2 wheel drive or 4 wheel. Slick is slick!
We have tons of overconfident idiots here too.

TexasSam said:
You don't know taters
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Can that be our new code for "don't know chit"??
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CapricornFarm said:
Mostly just fun making soap. I used to make it. The clear type is fun you can put stuff in it.
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The clear type is melt and pour (M&P). There's no danger to that, you just melt down the base and add your color/fragrance/additives. It's fun and easy and you can pretty creative with it.

The kind I make is CP, or cold process (actually, I do a variation of this, called CPOP--CP "oven process"--to cure it faster). That is the old-school from scratch way of making soap, with lye and oils (I use vegetable only, others may use lard or tallow). It's all- or mostly-natural (as opposed to MP) and is fantastic for your skin, if done right.
 
21hens-incharge said:
I have heard of tallow soap. It sounded like as good way for me to screw up BAD.
I will marvel at those who can do it and imagine the great smells instead.
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I don't do tallow since I'm veg. Saponified tallow is what most store soap is made from, which is the fat from behind a cow's kidneys. That always grossed me out, slathering that stuff on your face, but to each his own! Talow does make the hardest soap, but my recipe that I've created is pretty hard for an all-veggie soap.

I use olive oil, canola, coconut oil, palm, and shea butter in mine. Some people use lard, which is pig fat. I've gotten a lot of lard soaps in swaps, but they have always smelled nasty to me, I can totally smell that pig/meat scent in them.

Maybe now that I'll soon be jobless (or subbing, or doing whatever!) I can get back into the soap and candlemaking thing a bit more, again. It was never really a moneymaker though, just more of a subsidized hobby...
 

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