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
Use neem oil at about 5 to 10 percent of your oils for a skin bar, and up to 15 percent for a therapeutic or pet bar. It brings real antibacterial and
Making soap from scraps means grating your leftover slivers, melting them low and slow with a splash of liquid until they congeal into a mashed-potato
The bar that taught me the most about soap colorants came out the color of wet cement when I had poured it a bright sky blue. I keep a labeled tray of