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The only thing I know about soap is the soap I get when I make biodiesel. I dont even know enough about that type of soap to be able to stop making it HI ALL:D

I have drained off what I thought was the excess oil "perhaps it wasnt excess"and now the lumpy stuff is acting like soap when used to wash hands. Tasted it and no burning on tounge.Perhaps I should now have a go at whisking blending it although it is rather hard

well I tried a small batch 1 pint and all I have is a tray of hard small lumps resembling sawdust mixed with oil.I used 2ozs koh and 1 pint of oil 1/2 pint water. Seemed like a lot of koh though. So I went back to what I know,put 200ml methanol in 1 liter rapeseed oil then 10grams koh mixed...

Thanks for the info donniej I will give it a try and post my results. Back to bio just to confuse the issue,after demething the biodiesel I get about 200 or so ml of soap,glycerol dropout have you used this for making soap or do you dispose of it?

Thanks donniej I pound of KOH (453 grams) per gallon of oil.I have a supply of distilled water. So please tell me what I do with them. IE:how hot the oil how much water and how long to stir. I have spent the last year trying to avoid soap in my biodiesel reactions so this...

Hi all I make biodiesel and from the glycerol have been making soap. I use Potasium Hydroxide and methanol for the reaction and Potasium Hydroxide for the soapmaking the soap I get is pretty thick but by no means solid. The soap works very well but is very dark in colour and smells a...

Hi all I make biodiesel and from the glycerol have been making soap. I use Potasium Hydroxide and methanol for the reaction and Potasium Hydroxide for the soapmaking the soap I get is pretty thick but by no means solid. The soap works very well but is very dark in colour and smells a...