Teach Soap

I've recently discovered a local organic market (yay!) that has a large selection of whole herbs and powders such as blueberry powder, coconut powder, anise, etc. How do you know which are okay to use in MP? And why is it that MP soap never requires a preservative when edibles/botanicals like this are added?

Thank you, everyone!

I would do some research on the web. Usually, powders are ok, but fresh fruits or vegetables will rot. There are also threads on it right here in the forum. I'm sure if you search for it, you will find it.

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Irena
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Thanks soapbuddy. Do you have any go-to sources for this kind of info? You can find information on quite literally anything online, but since anyone can make a website, my trouble is finding which sources are trustworthy,

Here's a link to a thread on some mp additives:
viewtopic.php?f=6&t=1985

I wish there was a website or book that listed the safe things that you can add to mp, but I think there's just too many to list and way too many different opinions on what's okay to add.

When looking for some new recipes to play with, here's a few places I look over:
http://www.chasenfratz.com/soaprecipes/#oils_and_herbs
Here's an old friend of mine's site.
http://www.halderman.net/cgi-bin/showrecipe.pl?mp
http://www.soapnuts.com/nutsmprecipes.html
http://www.fromnaturewithlove.com/recip ... ategory=11

Keep in mind that not all the recipes are good ones.

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