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Hi All, I'm dealing with a significant number of white spots all over the cut bars of my two latest batches of soap. I've had this happen before when I've accidentally gone a bit lye-heavy, however this time they all pass the zap test. Would you still think this is due to too much lye even...

I'm working on perfecting a cold process soap with bergamot and patchouli EO. I've made this a few times, and while I like it, it is overwhelmingly patchouli and little to no bergamot. The total wt. of my oils is 40 oz. With EO at 0.5 oz/lb soap, this is approximately 1.25 oz EO/batch - 0.25...

Specifically olive oil. I use a lot of olive oil in my soaps and have been purchasing it at Walmart for approximately 18.8 cents/oz. I'm looking to purchase in larger quantities and checked out Soaper's Choice. I calculated their olive oil pomace to be approximately 13 cents/oz. Good deal...

So my first post on this forum was about my overuse of EO. Now I think I have the opposite problem :confused: I just finished curing a patchouli + bergamot EO CP soap. 32 oz total oils, 0.3 oz patchouli and 0.64 oz bergamot. This works out to a little under 3% (2.9-somthing %.) After a 6-week...

Hello! New here and trying to get a feel for the forum. I'm pretty new to CP soapmaking and have a couple EO questions. I made a batch of cinnamon-sweet orange soap (30 oz total oils) and used 0.5 oz cinnamon leaf EO and 1.5 oz sweet orange EO. The result was incredible, but in my reading...