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Just wondering if anyone can tell me if there is a substitute to Palm oil. I have a recipe for a goatsmilk soap which I am very happy with but it looks like a lot of the shops nearby are not stocking palm oil anymore, So I am hoping that there might be another oil which I can replace it with...

Ok so after my recent (so far) success with my goatsmilk soap I thought I would keep going. I want to make a coffee soap, now my plan was to use some ground coffee I have in the cupboard (the kind you use in a plunger), make it up as a coffee (add it to hot water) then into the freezer to...

Ok, so I am new to soap making so I am sort of limiting myself to easy to find and cheap oils (supermarket) just incase it goes terribly wrong and I have to chuck it. I have made up a recipe based on what is easy/cheap for me to get or what I have at home already, and also based on what I...

Ok I have read that soybean oil is a good filler oil as it is cheap and produces a good hard bar and also fairly food lathering and conditioning properties. My question is, is it available at supermarkets (in Australia) and does it go under a different name? If it is is it with the shelf oils...

I have seen in the supermarket “solidified oil” in the same section as the copha. Now on the ingredients it says it is “vegetable oil” but not what type, does any one know what sort of oil this actually is in terms of putting it in to a calculator? Is it soybean oil? And there is something...

Hi everyone, I have been wanting to try my hand at soap making for years now, and finally decided to give it a go on the weekend, a very simple goatsmilk olive oil soap. Made particularly for sensitive and eczema affected skin which is very common in my family. Vanessa