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In my quest to understand the value of knowing pH to determine soap safety, I decided to experiment a bit. I'll outline what I did and what I plan to do further. I have 40+ different soaps here at this time, but some are rather close, so I decided to test 10 of those that seemed the most...

I've made 3 soaps using beer as a water replacement. All were different recipes. Today, I made one with 70% olive oil and it went to trace almost immediately, which surprised me with that much OO. So, I did a little search on here and noticed warnings to use flat beer and boil off the alcohol...

Some of my formulations trace so quickly that I can't get the additives or EO in before it gets too thick to put in my molds. I know I could use more oils and less butters, but I like how the soap turns out, and would like to delay the trace long enough to get everything in without changing the...

I've been trying to join this facebook soap making group, but I'm not familiar enough with facebook to know if the group isn't accepting members or if something is not working right. When I click to "join group", it is pending for a few minutes and then if I refresh the page, it no longer...

Hi, I'm new to the forum. I've just started making some cold process soaps and want to stay all natural. I've noticed clay is used to color some soaps and was wondering if it had to be a special clay or can I use my red and dark brown clays that I have for making ceramics? It is far cheaper...