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I left 100% CO 20% SF soleseife soap scented with anise eo in the loaf for 3 hours, apparently too long. I managed 5 decent size intact cakes buy was left with about 150g of crumbles. Other than rebatching, what can I do with these crumbles?

My daughter is a case manager at a homeless shelter and asked if I would volunteer to make soap for shelter residents and for men, women and children who reside in an offsite campground. My challenge is to make an effective cleansing soap that's healing, moisturizing, and gentle enough for all...

Good afternoon fine folks, I tried substituting ocean water filtered twice through a coffee filter for the usual distilled water in my recipe, but I don't know if the lye dissolved properly. I used "full water" (the 38% option on soapcalc), which is a bit over 2.5:1 water/lye ratio. Weighed lye...

I'm trying to duplicate a hard puck of a well loved vintage shaving soap with the following ingredients: tallow, stearic acid, water, coconut oil, NaOH, KOH, fragrance, etc. A later ingredient list clarified the recipe some: Sodium tallowate, potassium stearate, sodium cocoate, glycerin...

So I made some tallow lemongrass scented bath soap for my dearest wife (i mean that sincerely). I found a great glass baking dish to use as a mold but after pouring the liquid into the mold I realized I forgot to line the mold! Will the soap pop right out after 24 hours or am I in trouble...

I know I read where a few members made 100% tallow soap with beer instead of water but my searching skills are lacking. Has anyone made this kind of soap? Do you cook the alcohol out of the beer first? Does the beer provide some lathering property to 100% tallow soap that makes such a soap...

Hi all. Lets' say I have a tallow and coconut oil soap recipe run through soapcalc with 5% superfat. Lets's say I want to superfat only the coconut oil. Can I simply saponify all the tallow with all the lye called for by soapcalc first, then add the coconut oil to get only the coconut oil...

I love my almost finished round of Swedish Dream Sea Salt Soap and want to make my own. After some reading here and elsewhere, I came up with the following recipe from oils I have on hand: 80% coconut Oil 15% Olive Oil 5% Sunflower Oil I'd use fine sea salt at 75% by weight of oils, and I...

Hi all, This is my first question so go easy :) I'm experimenting with making a shaving soap from an old book by Henry Gathmann that calls for 83% beef tallow, 17% coconut oil and a 78.7% NaOH/21.3%KOH saponification combination, half boiled (I took that to mean hot process). The lather was...

Hi everyone, As a traditional wet shaver, I found these forums in my search for how to make good shaving soap. Little did I know how cool soap making in general can be. I hope to learn a lot and make new friends while I'm here. Thanks for a great, fun, informative forum! David