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I had always used liquid until i made my own clothes soap, i prefer the dry-is easier to store and not as messy--i didn't like the slimeyness of the liquid--but that might be do to the use of using our own homemade GM soap. It is so easy to keep a Tablespoon measure in the bucket, no drips...

sew cute!! love it

I got a soap done like that a year ago in a soap swap, she also patted the top with bubble wrap and then put a glass bee in it. beautiful--hey ever whipped soap or piped it with cake decorating tips :)

ohhh I went to your website tamlynn--they are soo cute!

the I spy bags have been around for several years. you can make sports bags, dance bags, anything your heart desires. A popular I spy bag is the Alpabet bag where you put 26 little items in the bag, an item for each letter--ex a little apple for the letter A, then the child finds each item...

yes they are individual silverware trays-but we just discovered that Walmart no longer has them, so we will have to go another route. EO's are for fragrance.

oh and for the 2 oz bar molds, we use the Rubbermaid utility trays-they last for several hundred batches.

We have a small Walmart also-but we can get coconut oil there, but we live in Sunflower country, but can't get sunflower oil anywhere. We use lard for hardness and now instead of coconut oil we happen to get a box of palm kernal flakes which makes a very hard bar that has nice lather. so...

I have a friend who is a Master Spinner, she took a 4 or 5 year course from Canada. She spins some fibers as is-such as Angora. But I did wash and card sheep fleece with her. She might have changed her technique, I have been busy and she has been very busy. What she did is take big...

EO's need to skin safe and unless I knew they were skin safe, I would not use them and there is a difference. You could look the brand name up online if you could find them, if not, I would not use them. There are many FO's and EO's that don't work in CP either that we can use in HP. I...

when I started, I used plain water and basic soap recipe. The hot process/oven process we now use for the darker and basic soap took 8 to 10 tries before we got it right. after several years, we still use a thermomoter and use the taste/zap test. Temps weren't right maybe. I know that honey...

I bought books and books maybe 15 to 16 years ago after I got my first dairy goats-never did anything because the books were overwhelming, wish I had jumped in then:/, but oh well. Soap is going good now-- we always have people that only buy the small bars for gifts and think it is too...

Here is the recipe that we started with http://dairygoatinfo.com/index.php/topic,17.0.html we use all goats milk for the liquid. Yes anything with vanilla with darken the soap. Our dragons blood turns very dark--like a chocolate brown. Something to consider is to keep a notebook and keep track...

oh we sell the 2 oz bars for $2 or 3 for $5; 4 oz $4 or 3 for $10.00. most of the people buy jsut one 6 oz bar cause it lasts a long time but they are $6 or 2 for$12. Little old ladies love to buy the 2 oz bars 3 for $5 for gifts and love to try all the fragrances. they can buy 12 bars...

this is very interesting. We starting making soap for sale 2 1/2 yrs ago and it keeps us very busy. We make goats milk soap from what they call the Walmart recipe, kinda tweaked it a bit, we got a box of palm kernal flakes so we use that now instead of coconut oil, until it is gone and then...