Bubbles & Numbers: A Guide to Calculating Lye, Percentages, and Discounts Can you calculate a recipe by hand or do you rely on a lye calculator?  Lye calculators have made formulating and calculating a recipe easy. ...

How to Make Cold Process Beer Soap    Why beer soap?  Because it’s fun, unique, different, a conversation started, but maybe most importantly, because it adds some extra goodness to your bar of soap!  Using alternative...

What are Balms, Whipped Butters, Scrubs, and Bath Salts? Balms are a heavy duty moisturizer. They are made up of oils, butters and beeswax. They lack water, unlike lotions. Because they lack water they have a...

What are Bath Fizzies? Bath fizzies, also known as bath bombs, are balls that when dropped into the tub will fizz and moisturize. You need two essential ingredients to make bath fizzies: citric acid (for the...

Creating Gradients: The Math    Creating Gradients in cold process soap takes a little bit of planning (and some math), but the end results can be absolutely gorgeous!  Handout: This comprehensive handout explains how to create four different...

How to Make Dual Lye Shave Soap    What is a dual lye shave soap? A dual lye shaving soap uses both Potassium Hydroxide (KOH) and Sodium Hydroxide (NaOH).  The combination creates a “solid” but soft bar of soap...