Recent content by neidenn

I took the recipe from Anne L. Watson's book "Smart Soapmaking" and I don't remember how much I used of each oil. I do believe that I used 116 gms of lye though and 255 gms of distilled water. The olive oil was somewhere in the 500's and then the palm kernal oil it called for I don't really...

I didn't discount the lye at all. I just substituted one oil for the other. I'll check the ph tonight. I hope it's not too much. It looked ok this morning when I checked the mold. Thanks for letting me know though. I definitely will try never to do that again. Is it because of the...

Thanks, I'll do that tonight. I would hate to think it might be lye heavy. I'm pretty new to this and I've always used recipes from a book for my soap. I have never calculated quantities. All the soaps I've made have had good ph levels from the recipes. I'll try to figure out how the soap...

Hi. I had a question regarding a batch of soap I made yesterday. I basically used palm oil instead of palm kernel oil because I realized I had purchased the wrong oil when I was first ordering supplies. I don't have the exact amounts used with me at the moment but the recipe called for olive...

Thanks Thank you both so much for the links and suggestions. I'm going to look into it now.

Hi. My name is Neisha and I'm new to soap making. I was wondering where I could find fragrance oil duplicates or similar for cold process soaps in the Lush type fragrances. I'm specifically looking for the Karma fragrance. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.