Our resident soap making guru at Teach Soap is Anne-Marie Faiola. Anne-Marie is a true soap making artist with 13 years of soap crafting under her belt. We hope the frequently asked questions and answers provided here will enhance your soapmaking experience. For additional inspiration, be sure to visit the Teach Soap Forums.
•I’m a new soap maker and recently left pounds of glycerin melt and pour and shea butter melt and pour in my car trunk, which of course made for frozen soap. Is there anything I can do about this?
•I had some really pretty blackberry seeds that I sprinkled on top of some CP Blackberry Sage soap …after the soap heated up and gelled, most of the seeds had sunk into the top of the soap and are now dark and icky.
•Does Beeswax make CP soap harder?
•What would cause a batch of soap to erupt while in the soap mold?
•Can you make good quality soap using the cold method without Palm Oil (i.e. is there an envionmentally sound alternative to using palm)?
•Does anyone have a Melt and Pour soap recipe for a soap thats good for psoriasis/eczema?
•What will make cold process soaps freeze or set up too soon? And can cold process soaps be molded into different shapes?
•I made a batch of lotion using beeswax, but the oil and water separates. Is there any way to save my lotion?
•I have a large quantity of glycerin byproduct from my husband’s biodiesel projects. I am interested in making soap with it. Can you give me some easy soap recipes that I can use my glycerin in?
•I am looking for cold process natural dog soap recipe that will be good for dry skin. Can you help? I have searched the internet, and cannot find one.
•I seem to be having trouble with some scents dissipating from my soap after just a few weeks, particularly citrus EO’s. Can you tell me what I can use to anchor lemon, lime, orange, and mango fragrances?
•Which oils can you use to make potpourri ? Which colorants can you use to color salt?
