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I have chosen melt and pour soaps as the main part of my business as I like all the great designs etc that can be done with them. However I am a little intrigued by cold process soaps and the feeling of superiority they seem to give off.
I am put off however by the actual process of making them, well, the Lye to be precise. It scares me a little.
I was looking again last night at a tutorial for making Cp soap and several times on the page, the writer made clear that the reader should read all they could about the safe hndling of lye and precautions etc. Then, later on on the page, she posted the link below.

Well, if I was apprehensive before, I am pure terrified now, as a mother - this scares the h*ll out of me.

http://www.teachsoap.com/lyeburn.html

This is a lesson I hope I will never forget if I ever summoned the courage to make the stuff. With the injuries caused by lye, I am greatful that we need to obtain the safety assessments in order to sell what we make. It worries me however that some will sell uncertified soaps.

We are just putting together our very popular courses for next year.

Why not come on one?

Basic safety measures are all that is needed when using NAOH - just as when using a chip pan:)

makeitbig wrote:I have chosen melt and pour soaps as the main part of my business as I like all the great designs etc that can be done with them. However I am a little intrigued by cold process soaps and the feeling of superiority they seem to give off.
I am put off however by the actual process of making them, well, the Lye to be precise. It scares me a little.
I was looking again last night at a tutorial for making Cp soap and several times on the page, the writer made clear that the reader should read all they could about the safe hndling of lye and precautions etc. Then, later on on the page, she posted the link below.

Well, if I was apprehensive before, I am pure terrified now, as a mother - this scares the h*ll out of me.

http://www.teachsoap.com/lyeburn.html

This is a lesson I hope I will never forget if I ever summoned the courage to make the stuff. With the injuries caused by lye, I am greatful that we need to obtain the safety assessments in order to sell what we make. It worries me however that some will sell uncertified soaps.

Shoot me if you like, but really!! that woman had a narrow escape and she should have known better.

If you put that story in context, how many kids pull boiling pans of chip fat off cookers, or boiling kettles off worktops.. I know I don't have kids, but it isn't rocket science to work on the basis that you keep children and animals away from the dangerous stuff... and if that's not practical then don't do the dangerous stuff!

While a nice bar of soap is a fun and practical thing, the process can be dangerous. Folk would scream blue murder about "Health and Safety" if a large petrochemical company allowed unprotected people in to unsafe areas and then these same folk make soap at home in a domestic kitchen with semi naked toddlers crawling around??

Send the woman to prison and put the child in care!

Yes, I agree, I don't allow my 7 year old in the kitchen period - if she was in the UK, the social services would have been called in as standard for that accident. However, all people don't think like that. When we moved into our house there ws an extension built on the back and the old wooden patio doors were and are still in situ between what was the back room - hence the doors leading to the garden then, but now leding to nother room. With them being old glass as poosed to the stuff that comes in the UPVC, I was worried by it as 2 of my children were younger, 2 and 6. So I told my landlady I wanted to put boards over them. She sid I couldn't - so I told her I wanted safety glass film on all the central door and two full length windows either side. She agreed and paid for it to be * professionlly.
When the bloke came to fit the stuff, as he worked he said 'so what happend then?' I asked him what he meant. He replied that he only ever got called in to fit sfety glass film after an accident, usually with a child. I told him it was a precaution, he was so shocked and he shook my hand. My turn to be shocked.
Its a shame, but people don't always think first.

Sorry Jane - forgot to reply to your bit - where are you based?

I ama self confessed GOM by the way!

(grumpy old man!)

makeitbig wrote:Sorry Jane - forgot to reply to your bit - where are you based?

Nr Loughborough - Leicestershire

sparkysdad wrote:I ama self confessed GOM by the way!

(grumpy old man!)

What you!!

Never;)

Just Soaps wrote:

makeitbig wrote:Sorry Jane - forgot to reply to your bit - where are you based?

Nr Loughborough - Leicestershire

Will look and see how far it is by train.