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Very nice video, i enjoyed it, but i enjoy soap videos twice as much when they shows the finished cut soap at the end.

Congrats! i wonder how long until the little efficacious gentleman signs up on the forum ;)

no thats not it, i've seen soap sweat before, this is entirely different, it just stay wet forever, there are no droplets or anything, its just soaked.

Well i did it, after the discussion in this thread: http://www.soapmakingforum.com/showthread.php?t=52250&page=3 i went ahead and made a 100% coconut oil salt bar but instead of using regular salt i used sodium citrate. i made a small test bar with 50g of coconut oil, 5% superfat and a 40% lye...

i didnt suggest you lived in some third world country.. i dont think i wrote anything even relating to third world countries, i actually thought you're american. i never said you can taste the difference either, when i said we test out oils i meant lab test if that wasn't clear.

Although we produce a lot of oilve oil we also import a large amount, being able to taste the difference is not the issue, just because we have an official quality regulator doesn't mean we trust it, we do batch tests every 6 months or so, they should do what we do. Regarding your question, if...

I've never in my life seen olive oil that is yellow, olive oil is NOT yellow, there must be some other oil mixed in there, regardless of quality, pure olive oil, even if not extra virgin is green. i'm living on earth, not sure where you're living, i'm more then aware that there are fake EVOOs...

I'll give it a shot with a small batch of 100% CO with 100% sodium citrate added at trace, i'll report results.

oh man, i was blending some EO yesterday in a plastic cup just for fun, when i came back the bottom of the cup had melted away... had no idea EO could do that.. :shock:

Very interesting, so you're saying that if i add a large amount of sodium citrate to my soap and it becomes very soft, its not that im neutralizing the lye, the soap would be created as usual but it would just be softer because the citrate is affecting its structure? so if i let the soap stand...

Thats what i also thought, since sodium citrate is the product of citric acid + lye then combining sodium citrate with lye should not react, but then how do you explain the soap getting softer when adding sodium citrate to the mix?

heh i guess you're right ;)

absolutely ridiculous, EVOO is most definitely not olive+sunflower oil, and its also not just regular olive oil, it is the oil produced from First Cold pressing of the olives. regular olive oil is made by pressing the already pressed olives several times until nothing can be extracted anymore...

trisodium citrate (the one used in food and soap) has a PH of 8, so its not really an acid.. does anyone know if the sodium citrate actually neutralize some of the lye or if they dont react and the citrate just inhibits the lye from reacting with the oils somehow?

yup, opened a wiki and had a nice read, could have saved myself the thread. :mrgreen:

Regular user of sodium citrate here, although it helps with soap scum, the more sodium citrate you add the softer your bar becomes. a 70% olive oil 30% coconut oil soap that can usually be unfolded after 24h without any difficulty without any sodium citrate becomes too soft to unmold after 24h...

Is it possible to make a soap out of 100% essential oil and no other oils? has it been done? im not going to try since it would be a gigantic waste of money, but i was just wondering if its at all possible.. :grin:

I soap exclusively with extra virgin olive oil, not by choice, its just the only thing i can get my hands on, no one sells anything else here, so let me tell you, extra virgin olive oil soap ALWAYS has a green tint to it, its never ever white or creamy. i've used a bunch of brands and all of...

Well i did it, i made a VERY small batch of 50/50 cocoa/avocado butter soap, i added 1% sodium citrate and 1% sugar to help with lather. the whole process was kinda weird, i only did 60g of oils so it would fit in a single small mold, because of that i couldn't use my stick blender so i used a...

To get to a point where your tea tree soap tingles would require you to use an impossible amount on tea tree oil and it would actually be a bad thing, for the same reason you're not suppose to swallow tea tree, applying too much of it to the skin can cause the same symptoms as swallowing it...