Soap Makers Help!

[chiknwhisperer]

The bars actually aren't very big at all I just zoomed in so you could see better. They are about 2 inches tall and 4 wide I think. Give or take. I want to make chamomille and lemon tea soap tonight but I need to check and see if I have enough stuff to make it with. Absoloutley hooked. ( I know I spelled it wrong lol ) I really want to get good at this so that I can sell them and have money to pay for my supplies since I'm a stay at home mom. DH thinks I'm doing well though. Thanks for not laughing

 

[chiknwhisperer]

How do you use glycerine? I keep seeing people use it but I don't know how you would.

 

[cheeptrick]

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http://www.pioneerthinking.com/glycerin.html NOTE the sweating properties of glycerin!! The same problem I had with my layered red frankencense/myrrh and goatsmilk soap.

This article is great...all about glycerin!!

 

[redhead83402]

Thank you for that list, cheeptrick! I wonder if chlorophyll can be found locally ~ perhaps health-food stores might have it?

chiknwhisper ~ those bars look like my first bars! Let's not call them ~ugly~, instead, we can use the politically correct term of ~rustic~. ;-D

BB ~ Those rosemary & lavender bars are beautiful!

NP & MP ~ we would all love to see some of your bars as well!! I am hoping some of you have some well-cured bars, so that I can see what that would look like. How do we know they are done? Just the taste test?
~Red

 

[CrimsonRose]

Wow!!! I just spend the whole day reading this thread and I'm itching to run out and buy supplies... Thanks so much for the wonderful info everyone!!! Hopefully tomorrow I will be able to go shopping and find all the stuff I need...

 

[redhead83402]

hehehehe ~ another addict! And so it goes ~ just like the dang chickens...lol.. you'd think we BYCer's are all a bunch of OCDer's ~
;-D
~Red

 

[CrimsonRose]

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Hubby says I have ADHD since I typically have a dozen projects running all at once... LMBO

As for the chickens I started with quail (just wanted eggs and a small bird that was easy to care for) well after they hatched grew up and layed their first egg I had to have chickens as well... LMBO I have 2 homemade bators up and running one full of quail eggs and the other to soon be jammed packed full of chicken eggs...

but all that will take days before they hatch so in the mean time I figured I could make soap to keep me busy...

Now trying to figure out a way to convence hubby to let me turn is old shed into a goat barn it's small and would be the perfect size!!! (I need the goats for the milk in my soap... ha ha ha)

My kids want goats so bad... I will probably try to get the dwarf goats because I hear they are easier to care for???

 

[chiknwhisperer]

My DH didn't want me makiin' soap at first. Then I started talking goats and wouldn't stop lol. That was a HUGE NO from him. So then I asked again if I could order lye and make soap. It was either that I run out and get a goat. I am now making soap and lovin' it. But I am still gonna get a goat

I found goat mold at Camden Grey that I want to get.

I'll look all innocent when he goes to wash up and has a goat lookin back at him

Although he is now an enabler to my chicken addiction LMBO. I was looking at what I am going to order and he asked why I don't by a leghorn or the brown egg layer special

He will live to regret those words

 

[cockadoodlemom]

chiknwhisperer ~ those are beautiful rustic bars

My dh keeps trying to cut them perfect and I keep telling him I don't want them perfect cause I like them screaming I'm home made. I am addictied to soap making

Edited to add: We use a cheese cutter which is a very thin wire.

 

[chiknwhisperer]

lol I'll have to use the cheese cutter idea if all else fails hehe. I ordered eucalyptus ( sp ) eo, fine pumice, and lol 7 pounds of castor oil

I asked my DH when he got in from work this morning if he ever thought he would hear me tell him that I ordered 7 lbs of castor oil

I'm hoping it will take a while for me to run out of it. I love making soap