by Daisy | Mar 23, 2009 | Crafts, Soap Making
**I have toyed with taking this recipe off the site. It is problematic. Originally, I thought I had used KOH, but I was mistaken. Since I thought I was using KOH, I used way too much lye(3.375 oz), but the dilution process seemed to eliminate that. I use this...
by Daisy | Mar 2, 2009 | Crafts, Soap Making
The theme for this month’s Giveaway is gardening. I wanted to include a homemade soap for the gardener and came up with this one. It’s handmilled from my base soap of olive, coconut and castor oils and superfatted with almond butter for a bit of extra...
by Daisy | Feb 16, 2009 | Crafts, Soap Making
Last week, TL acquainted you with the perils of remilling homemade soap. In that article, she mentions that ‘tallow’ soap is easier to rebatch. Well guess what’s the first ingredient in Ivory Soap? Sodium Tallowate. Which mean saponified (soapified,...
by Daisy | Feb 9, 2009 | Crafts, Soap Making
When I first became interested in soapmaking, I checked out several books on the subject from the library. One of them was full of recipes for handmilled soap, aka remilled soap.You chose a base recipe, made the soap, shredded it, melted it, and added fragrances and...
by Daisy | Jan 26, 2009 | Crafts, Soap Making
Whether you do melt-n-pour, cold process, hot process, or hand-milled, when it comes to soap sophistication, packaging is where it’s at.What if someone just handed you three bare bars of Dove as a present? Happy Birthday! Lame.But what if they...
by Daisy | Jan 12, 2009 | Crafts, Soap Making
This was part of the Christmas gifts for some of my relatives. Lavender-Rosemary Soap. I used the All-Vegetable, No Coconut or Palm recipe on Kathy Miller’s page (scroll WAY down.) 1. Sprinkle the lye crystals into the measured amount of water for the recipe....
