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I Made Soap Today!!!

I made Milk And Honey Soap by Racheal Levitan. I got the recipe and lots of information from Miller's Homemade Soap Pages . I was able to do this recipe with my current kitchen scale. I was also able to find the ingredients locally, even the lye. I bought it at Lowe's. It is called Roebic Heavy Duty Chrystal Drain Opener and from what I understand it is 100% lye. (PLEASE, IF YOU DECIDE TO USE LYE, READ UP ON SOAPMIKING AND MAKE SURE YOU FOLLOW THE SAFETY PRECAUTIONS!) 

If I had read about how tricky it can be to work with sugar and honey in a soap recipe before I found this one, I might have been to afraid to try it. So far, so good though. I guess I'll know more tomorrow!

My camera has dead batteries again so I don't have any pictures of the process. I will try to post some shots of the bars later. I made my own molds and I will try to take some pictures of them too.

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07:06, Saturday, February 16, 2008 .. Posted by Shari

I recognize you from the t2ck board. So glad you could make your soap.

Thanks!

01:10, Monday, February 18, 2008 .. Posted by tondalynn

I visited your blog and I can almost smell that bread. It is making me hungry...