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I tried a water discount and my soap took more than 36 hours to be ready to un-mold and once it was cute it still took another 4 days to really harden. I think one of the issues is that I mixed the lye and let it cool, but it was maybe 3-4 hours between mixing the lye and then adding it to the...

So after way to long between batches, I made my second batch of soap! Honestly while I was a lot calmer through this one, I made it way to late at night so things sort of turned into a bit of madness and I’m pretty sure that’s a big part of the reason that everything that did go wrong in this...

Okay, so I have like a zillion questions but lets just start this. 1) I made soap like 2 weeks ago and didn't zap test it. I used soap calc and didn't use a water discount, am I okay? 2) I lined my molds with freezer paper and totally put the waxy side toward the soap, how big of a deal is...

I just cut my first soap! I did get soda ash and some weird texture on some. The weird texture I'm pretty sure is because I cut one mold to early and when I took it out of the mold some of the soap stuck to the freezer paper. Okay other than the soda ash "issue" (and looking at the pictures of...

After more than a year of researching soap making and stalking around this forum I finally took the plunge and made a batch of soap. It was much easier than I had built it up to be in my head, I mean assuming that it actually turns into soap and doesn't just end up as a blob of oily mess that...