Crock Pot Transparent Soap
8 oz castor oil
5 oz coconut oil
2.5 oz Stearic acid
1 oz olive oil
14 oz. lard
4 oz Lye
8 oz water
(read instructions below for when to add the following ingredients)
8 oz sugar
3 oz boiling water
13 oz of 70% ethanol alcohol (vodka will work)
3 oz glycerin
Measure oils and put into crock pot to melt. Mix [...]

Why Make Ungelled Soap?
Less heat build up in your soap mold means that the more fragile, or volatile elements of your expensive essential oils, do not get lost to the intense heat that gel stage creates. Did you know the internal temperature of a batch of soap in full gel stage can exceed 220 degrees? [...]

The Discounted Water Cold Process soap making method is frequently referred to simply as DWCP.
Most soap formulations give you a lye weight, and that is a hard and fast, unchanged amount based on the type and quantity of oils your formulation is using. Each time you change the amount of the oils, and often even [...]

Until you are familiar with your crock pot, only fill it half full with total soap mixture. Your soap will rise and swell during the crock pot cooking process, and you want to have enough room to contain it all. Any crock pot will do, but I recommend one that will let you remove the [...]

Look what I found in my garden today! Brad & I did a garden clean up to prepare for our 2010 Spring Garden. In September I harvested the last of the carrots, except for some stray seedlings that had not grown due to my planting the carrots too close together. I thought for sure these [...]

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