I'm making soap using the recipe on the back of this lye I bought. It's very exciting.
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Very interesting. Let us know how it turns out. Be sure to let it age/season before using it. even a small pocket of unmixed lye in your soap will ruin your day.
Will do. The lye bottle said to let it rest for 10-14 days before actually using it.
Man, I'm buying french black liquid soap or big cubes of Marseille olive soap and thought that's pretty far fetched...and you jumped straight to making the soap itself👀😅❤️ #soap
We're gonna see. They're solidifying pretty well, but they may turn out terrible who knows? It says "award winning" soap on the lye bottle and I'm sure I did my math right to cut the recipe down.
But I definitely need to do the whole mixing process outside next time. I just dissolved the lye outside, but there are still fumes when mixing into the fat.
Wow. I'm very curious. I never made soap, because I'm really afraid to have lye and fumes around kids. This looks great.
Now turn into a fully matured female and add some rosemary and just a few drops of lemongrass essential oil😂
And a ribbon!!
I swear you will grow a vagene if you proceed with these interests 🫢🤭🤭🤭
When I tried to learn to make soap I became frustrated that most soap "making books were actually soap milling (adding things to existing soap like flowers,oils,etc). I'd start to read the directions and most started with "take your bar of soap and chop it up".
Yea, that's just too easy and stupid. We want real stuff!
I was surprised you can mostly buy premade mix, basically just pour it out and make it harden. Will do it with kids, so we avoid lye, but still - that's not the real stuff!😀