It is always a good idea to shrink wrap your freshly made melt and pour soaps as soon as they are done and dry.
In humid areas, the high glycerin content in your soap will pull moisture out of the air and collect on the soap. The soap will look like its sweating. So, if you wrap them up air tight, this takes care of that problem.
Pam

you purchase your soap
Submitted by Soapcrafters on Tue, 04/21/2009 - 10:53.
If you purchase your soap making fragrance at SoapCrafters.com then usually it is one teaspoon per pound of soap. The lesser expensive fragrances are usually 1/2 ounce per pound of soap. It should say on the fragrance description when you click on the fragrance name.

FYI: 6 teaspoons = 1 ounce
1 teaspoon = .1666 ounce

I,personally, find it easier to weigh all my FO/EO by weight, not volume.I bought a litle stamp scale at the office supply store ( around $25). MUCH more accurate.

No, you wouldn't get good results for this because M&P does not take additives like that very well.
If you want to add your own goat's milk instead of using the premade goat's milk soap, you should use our shredded soaps, which are in the category of "Soap Noodles Soaps." You would be able to add a cup of milk to each pound of soap to that and get great results.
Pam

Hello,

I am learning to make soap and am using the M&P for some of the first batches (White Glycerin) and would like to add our own goat's milk to it... is that possible?? I get confused with the scratch recipes and just wanting an easy way to make goat milk soap using our milk.. Any help would be wonderful...Becky

soap base/fragrance
Submitted by RodinBigD on Mon, 04/20/2009 - 22:01.
trying to learn soap making,and was wondering how much fragrance to add to to the soap base?

Most fragrance oil/essential oil will take up to one oz of fragrance oil/essential per pound of mp base. Most suppliers will make a suggestion on their website about the usage. Sometimes, its just trial & error.
good luck!

Submitted by amunare2 on Wed, 10/14/2009 - 16:08.
The glycerin I am working with to make soap is brown. Is there any good method to clear up the glycerin?
Thanks! Anne

I have never had a mp base colored brown. If you are talking about a finished soap, the brown coloring could be from the fragrance. Any vanilla in a fragrance will turn the soap brown. It could take anywhere from a couple of hours to a week to a month.
hope this helps.

It is brown??
Hmm, I have never heard of any of the brands being brown.
Well, I guess you could add some white colorant (titanium dioxide). We have some in our water powdered colorant section.

The glycerin I am working with to make soap is brown. Is there any good method to clear up the glycerin?
Thanks! Anne

Here at Soap Crafters we use an 8" chef's knife, we also use a 2 handled knife. That is the handiest because you put your hands on each end and push down.

If you're making lots of soap, you could just put it into a deep fat fryer type of thing. Or a wax melter. Just keep the temp low. But if you just want to do a pound of two at a time, you'll need a large knife to cut it.

I need some ideas on how others are breaking the soap up when it comes in such a large block? Thank you.

Hi Debbie,
Fragrance oils hold up better in soap making but there is no way to repel bugs with fragrances, so you have to use essential oils. There are a lot of them that reportedly repel bugs. Citronella is the big one, Eucalyptus, Peppermint,Bergamot, Geranium, Lavender, Sweet Orange. But the most important ones would be Citronella and Lavender. Whatever blend you make up, use 1-2 teaspoons per pound of soap. Get the soap as cooled off as you can before mixing them in. Heat makes essential oils evaporate really easily.
Pam

This is my first time to try soap making, I have purchased the Goats M & P from your company and I'm excited to get started. I want to make a bug repellant soap. Is it best to use the EO or FO? and other than Cintranella what other frangrances will repell? Thank you, Debbie

It could be a few different reasons. One is the fragrance you used contains DPG which will cause a powdery type substance to grow on soaps. The other is the melt and pour base you're using. Just a manufacturing issue. Some company's products do that and some do not. No, the white should be exactly the same as the clear. Did you use a different fragrance in the white, perhaps?

Just starting to make m& p soap this year. I made a batch of melt & pour about a month ago. As soon as it was ready I wraped in cello bag & sealed w/sealer. Now I see that it is starting to crystalize. Why is that happening? I also made a few bars of soap using white m & p base, it is nt crystalizing, does it make a difference?

If you purchase your soap making fragrance at SoapCrafters.com then usually it is one teaspoon per pound of soap. The lesser expensive fragrances are usually 1/2 ounce per pound of soap. It should say on the fragrance description when you click on the fragrance name.

trying to learn soap making,and was wondering how much fragrance to add to to the soap base?

You could get away with adding maybe a teaspoon per pounds or so. Some people like to toss in a bit of shea butter to melt and pour soap.

Can I add a vegetable oil to the Goats Milk melt and pour base? Thanks, Terri