Shaping & Waiting: What Soapmaking is Teaching Me About Taking My Time
Lately, the lesson that keeps resurfacing for me is this: I am usually better off than I think I am.
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Meg Grimm
- Jan 17, 2020
- 3 min
Am I a Soaper Yet?
I knew I only had enough supplies left for one more batch. Soapmaking is all fun and games until the supplies run out.
Meg Grimm
- Oct 13, 2019
- 8 min
Chemistry of Soap: Salt + Fat = Bath Time
What we know of as soap is known in chemistry as a fatty acid salt. Salt + Fat. How does the newly created fatty acid salt, soap, clean us?
Meg Grimm
- Sep 5, 2019
- 5 min
Try and Try Again!
It was the right color. It seemed the right consistency and texture. Not bad for my first batch of homemade soap!
Meg Grimm
- Jun 6, 2019
- 5 min
Pouring In
Goat's Milk Soap Batch #1 is curing in the cupboard, and this is what I learned.
First, I apparently can't read a scale...
Meg Grimm
- May 16, 2019
- 6 min
First Came the Goat, Then Came the Milk...
I had noticed that my own dry skin seemed to heal instantly with one use of the soap, but I wondered if it could help poor Jazper, too.
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