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Recipes & tutorials Cold process · Hot process · Melt & pour

Six weeks from
oil to bar

You pour in twenty minutes. Then you wait — and the bar you cut on day one is not the bar you use on day forty-two. Recipes, swirls, and honest failures from a rack that's never empty.

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Fresh off the rack

Every recipe shows its oil formulation up front, so you know how the bar will behave before you read a word.

Never made a bar

Three weekends is the whole distance between reading about soap and handing someone something you made.

i

Melt and pour, no lye

A finished bar in an hour. It teaches you moulds, colour and scent without the part everyone is frightened of.

Start here
ii

Meet the lye

Safety gear, the calculator, and what trace actually looks like. Read this before you open the container.

Safety guide
iii

Your first cold process loaf

Three oils, one simple swirl, six weeks of waiting. This is the batch you will keep coming back to.

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One letter, every Sunday

A recipe, and what went wrong with it

One tested batch, one honest failure, and a photo of whatever is on the rack that week.