Hi Jasmine and welcome to the forum

Thanks everybody for your warm welcome, I am having a good browse round the forum and enjoying looking at all your lovely soap creations. Dizzybug your first soaps are truly amazing. I am reading up on everything as much as I can and have decided to go with the recipe from Nature and dizzy as I have read posts on here stating, to get a feel for the soap first and add extra ingredients in your following batches, so you can note any changes, I am only interested in making soap for myself as I hate using the chemical bars you get from the supermarkets, even the natural "simple" ones contain so many nasties it is unbelievable that they are allowed to market them as natural.

Oh just a quick question, once the soap has cured, does it have an expiry date?  beacuse I may have a load to use. 

Once I have made my soap I will upload some photos.

It may eventually lose it's fragrance - but should be useable for a few years; this can depend on whether you use oils with a tendency to DOS (Dreaded Orange Spots) many people say that Sunflower oil will do this but I use 25% in my basic recipe and have never had any DOS.