Confetti soap is made by chopping or grating colorful soap into small pieces, chilling them, spraying them with rubbing alcohol, and setting them into
My first batch of soap papers tore into wet shreds because I kept brushing back over the same spot. I have been making soap for about eleven years, and
Titanium dioxide is the white mineral pigment soapers use to whiten a bar, opacify it, and build a clean base for pastels. You disperse about a teaspoon
Trace was the one word that confused me for my entire first year of soapmaking, and the batch that finally taught it to me was a swirl I ruined by over-blending.
Make coffee soap by stirring used coffee grounds into your batter at trace, about 1 tablespoon per pound of oils, for exfoliation and odor removal, and
Oatmeal honey soap is cold process soap with two additives stirred in at trace: finely ground oats at about a tablespoon per pound of oils for a soothing
My first batch of soap jellies looked adorable in their flower molds and turned into soapy puddles by morning. I have been making soap for about eleven
Cube soap is made two ways. The simple route is pouring melt and pour or cold process soap into cube molds, or cutting a loaf into cubes, which is an easy
Butter soap making means building a bar around shea, cocoa, or mango butter for a rich, conditioning wash, used at about 15 percent of your oils or less.
A customer once asked me to make her an antibacterial soap to replace the triclosan wash she had used for years, and the whole conversation turned into