Recent content by Kimimarie84

I make goat milk and coffee soap fairly often. I freeze the coffee and the milk before adding the lye, and then I add fragrance oil to either lye solution or at trace. I use Midwest Fragrance Company oils, and I’ve used Bramble Berry coffee fragrance oils in the past. Could it be the flash...

I’m not sure about other fragrance oil companies, but Midwest Fragrance has soaping notes for each scent on their website. They’ll tell you how much cold process soap they used, the percentage of FO, how it behaved, discoloration, and acceleration. They also have links to IFRA usage rate charts...

Thank you for the detailed information! Reading what you wrote, I feel validated in my methods. Other than the recipe itself, masterbatching, and (up until the last time I soaped), the lye concentration, I make my goat milk soap the same way. The last time I made soap, I melted down enough...

Thank you so much for this info! This helps me a lot. I really appreciate you taking the time to type it all out. I’m going to chat with the studio owner and see how she feels about switching from a M&P class to a HP class.

I met with the owner of the studio yesterday, and she likes my particular soap recipes and looks, and she wants to put my soaps into her retail space within her studio, so she said she’d prefer for me to formulate my own M&P because she seems to think that it will help my CP soaps sell better...

UPDATE: I soaped yesterday, and I used a 33% lye concentration instead of water as a percent of oil weight, and the soap moved through trace almost faster than what I could get into the mold. It’s a good thing I decided to not do any intricate colors or designs on that batch because it wouldn’t...

A woman with a local art studio reached out to me about teaching a soap making class, so we met yesterday to discuss how a class would look. I’m a CP soap maker, but we’re going with a MP class, and she wants me to formulate my own MP base. So I’ve already been scouring the MP forum for info on...

I have found all the articles linked and the advice within the thread to be incredibly helpful. 🥰

Thank you! I think it does, but I may be biased. 😆

Thank you! 🥰

That’s good to know! I’ve never used soapmaking friend before. I may have to give that one a try.

That’s good information, as well. Thank you! Maybe there’s some happy medium for both reasons stated above in the thread. Sometimes good for HP (depending on the recipe), ease of calculation, or maybe something else entirely. Either way, I’m happy to have a better grasp on lye concentrations...

Well, that’s true. I agree with you! Sometimes people are just mean, and you can’t do anything about that.

Thank you for your perspective on this; I appreciate you taking the time and having patience with me. What you’re saying makes sense. And it clarifies what the other woman was trying to say; I wish I could have finished that conversation with her, getting clarification from her, and coming to an...

Thank you for answering my questions about the lye concentrations - I figured someone had to have tried that out before and knew the answer. That does make sense about the recipes being formulated for HP, since all my recipes have had much lower lye concentrations, and based off the chart that...