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Does anybody have any books they can recommend about soap coloring and master batching?

It does say red Palm oil but the one I got is actually off white color. I believe it's been refined.

Does anyone have any suggestions to create some labels for soaps and lotion container cheaply? Or recommend a site? I've checked all these websites and it cost a lot of money to make the stickers labels. I've tried using Microsoft word and publisher and it can be cumbersome.

I read that you have to melt the whole thing to distribute the fats and stearic acid evenly unless it's homogenized? Bulk apothecary doesn't say if this block of Palm oil is good out of the box and just scoop them out. What do u think?

I diluted the goats milk powder with water and it added about 1.5 oz extra to the liquid required for the batch. I didn't add a salt or sodium lactate to the batch. I probably need to subtract the 1.5 oz milk to the amount of water required for the lye water mix or should I just do a certain %...

The efficacious gentleman, I used around 6% Shea, and the rest are soy and cocoa butter. I mixed in the room temp milk to the room temp oil and then the honey. Afterwards, I added the lye water and last, the grounded oatmeal and the fragrance oil. I used about 1.5 oz milk, 2 tsp honey, 4 tsp...

this is the plain oatmeal soap. Here's the 2nd one With milk soaps, should I have left it alone for 2-3 days before cutting it or put it in the freezer immediately after I made it? What about the ones I already made that has this spot? Can it be salvage? Will it disappear after a few weeks...

I tried making some oatmeal, milk and honey soap. The 3rd batch had a ring around the middle it. I added 1.5 oz milk and 2tsp of honey to the oil on room temperature (88 degrees) on a 2.75 lb batch. When I cut the soap, it looked fine but a few days later, that's when I noticed the ring. I...