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 [...]

If you make soap, than chances are you have a stash of fragrant, but empty amber glass bottles. Here is a way to clean and deodorize them so that you can use them for fragrance oils that arrive in HDPE plastic bottles.
What you will need:
Dawn Dish Detergent, coarse salt (kosher, sea salt, even regular table [...]

I found the most amazing website today while I was taking a break at Great Wolf Lodge. Hubby and son were racing about the 3rd and 4th floors of the facility finishing a LONG game of MagiQuest. My son was determined to battle that dragon before we left too!
As I was surfing the net, I [...]