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Re: soapmaking



my sister and i tried to make soap... it was fun and some of them came
out really nice (not before we had to sacrifice a aluminium pot to the
soap-making gods tho ;-) ! that was VERY dumb - use stainless steel or
even better - a plastic bucket.

the recipe included cautic soda (is that lye?), olive oil, cocnut oil,
vegetable lard, and then we added essetial oils and other goodies
(bran, oatmeal, chopped up herbs and spices).

one of the nicest soaps we made was cinnamon (with essential oil and
actual groud cinnamon) - it's very hard (it doesn't "melt" on the
sink), one that didn't work out was where we out lots of chopped up
lavendar (it didn't settle and is "soap-dust")

if anyone wants the specifics of the recipe you can e-amil me..
tinag@bsw.co.za
South Africa