My soap shelf holds more books than any other craft I practice, and the spines tell the story of every mistake I made learning. I have been making soap
You render the raw fat first, melting it low and slow to strip out the connective tissue, blood, and water, then treat the clean tallow or lard like any
Making soap for gifts is a scheduling problem before it is a craft one: melt-and-pour bars are ready the same day, while cold process needs four to six
My first soap kit was a bargain all-in-one set that shorted me on nearly everything that mattered. I have been making soap for about eleven years now
Soap bubbles because it is a surfactant: its molecules lower water’s surface tension and wrap around pockets of air to form the thin walls of bubbles.
Rock soap is glycerin melt-and-pour base, tinted with mineral mica and either carved into faceted gems or dipped in layers into a geode, so the finished
My first from-scratch liquid soap zapped my tongue after four hours in the crockpot, and I could not figure out why until I reread the label on my lye.
Use castor oil at about 5 percent of your oils, with a workable range of 2 to 10 percent. It does not make bubbles on its own, which surprises most beginners;
Felted soap is a bar wrapped in two or three thin layers of pure wool roving, then rubbed under hot water until the wool mats into a snug, scrubby skin.
My first exfoliating melt and pour bar came out with every poppy seed packed in a gritty layer at the bottom and a blank slab on top. I have made hundreds