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Packaging Homemade Soap for Sale

This is a guide about packaging homemade soap. Whether it's for a bazaar or a boutique shop downtown, if you are making soap to sell, how you package it is important. Make a great first impression by packaging your homemade soap right.

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Can I Rebatch Soap Chips in a Microwave?

Can I use a microwave to rebatch soap chips?

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Legal Considerations Regarding Ingredients in Selling Homemade Detergent

Is it illegal to use store bought soap in the homemade detergent that I plan to sell at craft shows?

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Making Soap Using Melt and Pour

I have been making soap using "melt and pour" soap with some success. But the only thing at the moment that I cannot master is when I tried to add oatmeal to make an exfoliating soap. The oats sink to the bottom.

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Reusing Leftover Soap Pieces

Can I melt pieces of soap into big bars of soap in the microwave? Thank you.

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Choosing and Testing Ingredients for Making Soap

How can I apply sugar, milk, beer, and honey to soap recipes? How can I test to know that finished home-made soap is good for the body?

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Making Soap on a Rope With Purchased Bars

Does anyone know how to put rope on a bar of soap to make "soap on a rope"?

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Use Leftover Soap To Make Homemade Laundry Soap

Using dish soap for laundry soap is cheaper, but making your own from Ivory soap bars, washing soda (not baking soda), and borax, is extremely cheap and very easy to make.

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Body Scrub Recipes

Using all those sticky or expensive ingredients for a facial scrub or body stimulator are unnecessary. No need to make special purchases of sea salt, honey, sugar and/or olive oil to do the best job. Trust yourself!

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Using Leftover Soap Pieces

When bars of hand soap are almost finished, getting the small remnants to stick together properly can be a pain, and they certainly do not look quite right for use in the guest bathroom.

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Making Liquid Soap from Leftover Bar Soap

How do I make liquid soap out of slivers of bar soap?

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Recipe for Goat Milk Soap Without Lye

I am looking for a goat milk soap recipe that does not use lye. I will be using fresh goat's milk, so I cannot use the melt and pour bases because they tell me that I can not add fresh goat's milk. Thank you in advance for any help.

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Soap Making Information

I'm very new to soap making, but I have an interest. I bought a book today that was full of information that scared the crap out of me. It talked a lot about 50 gallon drums of some concoction or other.

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Trouble Gathering Cotton Gauze Material with Serger

I have a Pfaff Coverlock 4862 serger. I also have the gathering foot that does well on lightweight denim or other material. It won't gather on a cotton gauze material. I have the pressure foot tension as far as it will go, and still no gathers. Any help would be appreciated.

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Storing Soap Made from Leftover Soap Pieces

After making bars of soap from pieces, how should they be stored?

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Making Soap Without Lye

I was reading information about making soap products someone had posted on ThriftyFun. Is it possible to make nice soap i.e., glycerin without using lye? As I have never tried to make soap, I wondered if it there was a way to do this. Many thanks. Helen xx

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Soap Making

I've found that all soap products have continued to rise in price for many years, so I started making my own. I was so afraid of using Red Devil Lye that it took me a long time to get enough courage to do my first batch of bath and beauty bars.

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Hand Soap Recipes Without Lye

I am looking for hand soap recipes that do not require lye.

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Recipe for Homemade Sugar Soap

Does anyone have a recipe for sugar soap (cleaning product)?

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Where Can I Get Glycerin?

Where can I buy glycerin for homemade bubble bath?

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Slicing Glycerin Soap

Does anyone have advice on how to slice glycerin soap without crumbling it? My daughter is trying to make soap loafs and then slice them into bars.

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Oil Free Soap Recipe

I am looking for an old fashioned soap recipe using lye and lard but no oil. Many recipes I Googled had olive or other oils. I misplaced a simple recipe I had using only lye and lard. Thanks for any replies I receive.

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Tips For Making Soap

Are there any soap makers out there? Would you like to share some tips to those wanting to learn to make soap?

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Soapmaking Recipes

Are there any soap makers out there that want to share a few recipes?

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Raw Silk Soap Recipe

Does anyone have a basic soap making recipe, using raw silk?

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Frog Pond Soap

Frog Pond SoapHere's a unique craft for kids that I make. It's called "frog soap pond". It's made with glycerin. Then you just add the frog toys to the top with some type of adhesive.