My nephew was seven the first time we made soap together, and he still calls the little star shaped bars we poured that afternoon his invention.
Making black soap usually means African black soap, a traditional West African soap that gets both its dark color and its alkali from roasted plant ash
Every good swirl comes down to one thing: keeping the batter thin and fluid long enough to move it. Pour your colors at emulsion or thin trace, before
The first batch of hot process soap I cooked climbed out of the crockpot like rising dough and slid toward the edge of the counter before I caught it with a spatula.
Which oats you choose decides everything about an oatmeal bar. Colloidal oatmeal is ground so fine it dissolves, giving a silky, soothing bar for sensitive
A recipe written for cold process does not carry over cleanly to hot process, and the reason is water. Hot process cooks the soap, and some of the water
You poured a loaf, it cured, and now you have to cut it. How many bars will it give, and what will each one weigh? Cut too thick and you get fewer, heavier
Soap recipes are shared in percentages because percentages travel between batch sizes without changing the soap. But you cannot weigh a percentage.
Sodium lactate for a harder bar, clay for slip, oats for a gentle scrub, a spoon of honey for label appeal. Additives make a soap recipe your own, but
You know what a batch of soap costs you in oils and lye, but that is not the number you need. What you need is the cost of a single bar, and then a price