Hello!
Been a while! I"m just curious if any of you could shed some light on if PKF, Palm Kernel Flakes, are not a good idea for liquid soap in any certain percenages? I made a batch and with around 35% PKF and it didn't even gel properly. it was pretty bad. I think I may have bad Glycerine...
So I got my new KOH delivered and made a couple batches. It most certainly was bad lye. The Glycerine is fine. My olive oil has an expiration date that has passed (costco), so I bought new oil to use. I don't suppose the olive oil could also be bad? it's not that much if I have to toss it...
I'm curious if anyone can provide me some good information on extracts in conjunction with Liquids Soap. I'm seeing products made with extracts instead of essential oils and i'm guessing because they contain alcohol which allows them to emulsify without any other ingredients. What percentage...
Curious to know anyone's input on if they think that Dr. Bronner's Liquid soap uses Hemp and jojoba as a part of the saponified oils, or do you think it is just used as a superfat? Considering their emolliency, I was just wondering if anyone has used them as such in their recipes or their best...
Take a small flake of KOH or NaOh and add it to water it will make it extremely alkaline so when you add just a drop of the solution to it, it will turn bright pink, that is how you know what is bad and common sense will follow. I don't exactly like licking my soap, and I approach things with...
If it's milky, it probably was neutralized too much. You didn't mention how you made the borax solution so we can't tell if 3 tablespoons is enough. My guess is it was too much. LS tends to get milky when the PH drops way too far in my experience. Usually that means it won't work very well...
I agree.
I actually went and made another batch, this time, i dumped out some of the KOH from the container and used it from the middle of the unopened container. I made the same batch. success! I also noticed that the browning effect in the glycerine was very faint. I used the same spoon...
I would love to know more about this because, on another thread, I was talking about having problems with my KOH within the Glycerine method turning brown. Also a batch I just did today from an unopened KOH container just turned into crap. Never saponified properly. These containers were from 2...
Alright I'm guessing this crap is bad. I grabbed the unopened KOH and it didn't turn brown like last time but did change with a tinge of brown. I'm going to pin the blame on the KOH and assume the Glycerine is fine. I mean it's glycerine.
I used this recipe from soapcalc:
Coco 92 degree...
I am microwaving my glycerine to about 230 or so.
The KOH came from Essential depot and was in individual bottles, but the one I used was in a half empty bottle that is over 2 years old.
I'll try using one of the unopened bottles, but i weighed the bottle and all and it was 2.12 lbs so I...
I'm using the Glycerine method to make my liquid soap.
I purchased a huge amount of it in March 2013 (about 8 gallons). I also bought a lot of KOH from Essential Depot.
I made liquid soap with this a little less than 2 years ago. I made a lot of soap. I heat up the Glycerine to about 230...
I noticed that Dr Bronners now has formulated there liquid soaps to include coconut, palm kernel oil and olive oil. I have some PKO in it's way here to try.