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For a cheap solution, you can't go wrong with an omega boar. If you want to spend a bit more (not much more though), the ultimate is a TGN finest, 22mm is cheap and the bigger they are the more you pay, but 22mm is an awesome knot. I'm pretty sure you can get a cheap matching handle off of...

That is really interesting. I'm having problems with the milling right now, the tooling isn't coping as well as I had hoped. Have a few ideas so hopefully I will have sorted it by tomorrow

Sharon, I bow to your greater soap making wisdom!

love tabac - one of the best soaps there is!

That is the most likely answer, but surely if you let the soap cool before the fragrance flash point then no evaporation should take place anyway? Mind you, if you are working in bigger batches (I assume you work in large batches Sharon, seeing as you sell your soap) maybe it is harder to get...

Yes, that is right. This is something I could do, but I am not quite sure how it means you can get away with using less fragrance. If I could, it would be nice, as fragrances for me are by far and away the most expensive ingredient. If it is worth keeping the process, then I can look into this...

fair enough, but there may be a difference in the way we manufacture our round soaps. do you pour each one individually? I make them as a large log and cut them. the shrinkage in the middle is quite large, enough to cause a fair amount of waste. ( I used to get in trouble from my bosses when i...

it certainly could do! depending on the tooling used, it can either be used to mash the soap down to a fairly small thickness (0.3mm right now, trials to go smaller will be coming soon), or compress it into the moulds to try and push out air bubbles and make the soap as dense as possible. The...

Sharon, that is interesting. I'm the same, from the moment it comes off the heat to getting it in the mould is extremely frantic! I agree with you on the glycerine aspect too - from my research and experiments it makes the lather more suitable for shaving. Therefore, the only thing I can...

From my research, you seem pretty much spot on. However, I do not know about you, but i put extra glycerine in my soaps, so I do not really know why I would want to remove it after? Maybe it's the removal of the glycerine that makes the soap harder? I'm beginning to thin that maybe my process...

Kind words indeed - thanks! I agree, it would be cool to have it clanging and banging and be some kind of super machine, but i'm going to have to disappoint you. It's a very simple, quiet, hand operated (and slow) process. Mind you, I have a spare 1.3litre motorbike engine just laying around...

Ok ladies and gents, who wants an update? The first milling trial just took place. Only made a small batch of soap, just to see if it would actually go through the machine, but it did so quickly, easily, and smoothly. Tomorrow, a slightly larger batch will go through three times and will be...

they look like they could be used with just a quick hone. i personally like patina on them, but each to their own

As above! freezing them will help if you want to go OTT, but storing them in airtight containers and in the dry will all be just as good.

The holiday was amazing thanks (apart from being stung by a jelly fish, and threatened by locals, but in ways that was kind of fun too). I didn't see any AS I'm afraid though. Still waiting on some parts for the milling machine some TIG welding gas to arrive, but once they do a large trial...

Had to bin my C&E sienna. Wonderful smell but the lather was crap! I've liked every other soap I have tried including some famous and some artisan. Mind you, I don't like occurs one Cade cream. Although I hear the soap is really good. A lot of the time I don't like a scent, but I stumble across...

Have to admit - a member on here sent me some bay rum and spice trade and they are bloody good! hope the scents don't change!

Love it dude! I found some la Toja but that's it. Thanks for the kind words.

Love it!

Had a nasty reaction to MWF and assumed it was the lanolin in it, but now I've been making my own soaps with lanolin I don't have issues. Not sure if it is something else in the MWF or what, but I find the lanolin gives a lovely feel to your skin post shave. Glycerin helps too.