Thread: Making my own soap.

Well I will be trying all of the different ways you guys suggested. I will be making some more on tuesday or wednesday. I would like I can send some to you when its cured if you PM me and tell me how decent of a lather lather it makes and performs as a shave soap. I will keep it unscented so that if you use it and don't like the scents that I like or are allergic to it then there will be no problems. Again not selling just looking for feedback and constructive criticism.

I guess we all are here in order to look for feedback and constructive criticism, or at least this is how I see this forum: a place where we can share opinions and ideas while growing up all together.
It would be very interesting to try one of your soaps and if you believe I could be a tester, count me in. No problem in case you want to add your scents: I don't think they would kill me.
Moreover, in order to get a reliable test, I guess you should let us know the list of the ingredients you will use for your soap/cream, not necessarily the quantity of each element as I understand this could be an information you want to keep undisclosed.

Oh I wouldn't care about disclosing the ingredients. I do not plan on selling it. As far as the scents go, if you don't care then I will add some. I will be trying to do a leather and pipe tobacco scent but that will be an experiment and if I feel like it doesn't turn out well then I will do a different smell maybe vanilla and clove as I like that combo alot too.

cosperryan, I've been following this thread with interest, and have also followed the links throughout to other sites to get a feel for what is needed, as I plan to try my hand at making my own soap as well. That, and I've already purchased a jar of coconut oil at the supermarket for future use.

One recommendation on a place to purchase your scents would be The Perfumer's Apprentice. I thought of mentioning this one specifically for you since you mentioned a pipe tobacco and leather scent. The leather I'm not 100% sure they have, but I know they have Tobacco Absolute, which is in several popular tobacco scented soaps.

I use an electronic cigarette (and have since 2008) and have made many of my own liquids using flavor concentrates (which they also offer) purchased from there, and the service was top notch up to the last time I ordered. Their list of EO's and FO's for scents is pretty extensive, though I dunno how they compare price-wise to others. I haven't really looked because I was planning on ordering form them regardless since I've had such good experiences with them.

If you happen to come across some other good places for EO's and FO's, let me know... or any places selling stearic acid and potassium hydroxide for cheap, too. So far, I've really only been able to look on Amazon and a few other sites but haven't found super great pricing.

Also, definitely keep us in the loop with how your experiment goes! I'm always down to hear of others success!

Originally Posted by crouton976

cosperryan, I've been following this thread with interest, and have also followed the links throughout to other sites to get a feel for what is needed, as I plan to try my hand at making my own soap as well. That, and I've already purchased a jar of coconut oil at the supermarket for future use.

One recommendation on a place to purchase your scents would be The Perfumer's Apprentice. I thought of mentioning this one specifically for you since you mentioned a pipe tobacco and leather scent. The leather I'm not 100% sure they have, but I know they have Tobacco Absolute, which is in several popular tobacco scented soaps.

I use an electronic cigarette (and have since 2008) and have made many of my own liquids using flavor concentrates (which they also offer) purchased from there, and the service was top notch up to the last time I ordered. Their list of EO's and FO's for scents is pretty extensive, though I dunno how they compare price-wise to others. I haven't really looked because I was planning on ordering form them regardless since I've had such good experiences with them.

If you happen to come across some other good places for EO's and FO's, let me know... or any places selling stearic acid and potassium hydroxide for cheap, too. So far, I've really only been able to look on Amazon and a few other sites but haven't found super great pricing.

Also, definitely keep us in the loop with how your experiment goes! I'm always down to hear of others success!

Well I went to one of the links some one else posted (saveonscents.com) and they were pretty cheap and had EO's and FO's that were just ridiculous i.e. baby diaper and puppy breath. Also at brambleberry.com they have a leather scent that I bought and it is pretty good. I am looking for a cavendish smell for the pipe tobacco. I am going to be making some soap tomorrow and I will be doing three. One melt and pour that I am comfortable with and feel that I get really good results with, one cold process and one hot process. The melt and pour only takes a few hours before being ready for use, but the other ones will have to cure before I can post the results. I will compare the two process soaps to my melt and pour. If I do the process soaps right then they should better than the melt and pour, right/hopefully?

Yeah, cause you know... everyone likes puppy breath shave soap.

I'll definitely check those two out, thank you sir!

Originally Posted by bridger

I made shaving soap first. now I'm thinking about branching out into regular soap.

Is that your post on a soap forum w/all the cool pics?

Originally Posted by RJD

Is that your post on a soap forum w/all the cool pics?

the only soap pic I've posted is this one:

This is a GREAT thread...but reminds me of that movie "Ronin", where you never find out "what's in the box".

Bridger, et. al., could you all please post some recipes?