Nancy Today: Lubricate the tube molds for the soap batch (soap 92)

[romancwriter2]

where do you get your milk?  so far I haven't seen any animals at Nancywood except cats......and do you keep bees?

[NancyToday]

@romancwriter2 I trade soap for goatsmilk from a woman who raises goats. No, no more animals. I've done the 250 market hogs per year, the turkeys, the chickens, the goats, the sheep, the rabbits. I'm finished with feeding the raccoons and owls!

[LiLtinee]

When you rebatch, does the scent of the original soap disappear or stay with the soap?

Dena

[NancyToday]

it depends. Sometimes it stays, sometimes it goes. i don't know what it depends ON though!

[ashleyandlee]

I've learned that adding honey or a bit of sugar to your soaps will help with a bubbly lather! I made a sugar solution of 2 parts sugar and 1 part water, brought it to a boil so it became a syrup, and have been adding it to my soaps 1 tbsp. per 2 lb batch. I think it works!

[NancyToday]

Thank you so much!

[ashleyandlee]

No problem! I am still pretty new at this too but I find that you can't get much info out of anyone online. Soapmakers can be pretty stingy with their information, but I guess I understand why! Oh well... how are we gonna learn without helping eachother?