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Good morning, anyone have any dog soap recipes please? Thanks in advance.

Hiya, I have had a Tea Tree & Rosemary soap safety assessed. I wanted to know from the assessor how many grams of each I could put into 900g of oils but it has shown as a percentage, It shows weight % to soap base as 1.23% of rosemary EO and 1.23% of the tea tree EO. Can anyone help please...

Good morning soapers, I want to make a tea tree soap which I believe is good for greasy skin, acne etc. My usual recipe is 40% olive, 25% Shea and coconut and 10% castor oil. I also like to make 100% coconut oil soap with 50% coconut milk to water. What recipe would you use and what super...

Hiya Soapers, I usually make soap with 4 oils, 40% olive, 25% shea butter, 25% coconut and 10% castor oil. That is my standard recipe and it works well with fragrances or EO's. However, I prefer 100% coconut oil soap (superfatted) with half coconut and half water in the recipe. I find this...

Hello Soapers. I have a recipe for a soap with honey and beeswax as follows: 40% olive oil 25% shea butter 25% coconut oil 10% castor oil To this 900g batch I add: 13g Sea salt 9g Natural honey 9g Beeswax 9g Kaolin clay But the soap doesn't look like theres any yellow beeswax...

Hello everyone, do you know what gardeners soap is like? Just wondering if 5% superfat 100% coconut oil soap could be used as gardeners soap as it will be REALLY cleansing I imagine? Or would it just lead to damaged skin?

Hello, must have had brain fade I have made 100% coconut oil soap with just 5% superfat. I used: 450g oil 171g liquids (water & coconut milk mixed 50/50) 78.34g lye plus oats and honey But I forgot to change the soapcalc superfat level to 25% and left it at 5%. How would you rectify this...

Does anyone know why this soap recipe seems to turn out greasy soap please? 900g coconut oil 131.94g lye 171g coconut milk from a can 171g distilled water 20g oatmeal 20g honey I added the oatmeal to the oils added the honey at light emulsion added coconut cream at light emulsion There was a...

Hello Soapers, last time i made a rose and chamomile soap it riced pretty quickly and the end result wasnt so good. So this time I added the fragrances to the oils instead of at trace and this resulted in immediate seizing of the oils, fragrance and lye. It is a really solid jelly like lump and...

Hello Soapers, what happens if you add extra water to a recipe please? Some of my soaps are fine and fluid and others are really thick and gloopy so much so that they are hard in seconds! What would happen if I added extra water to these soaps please? I made a goat milk soap yesterday and was...

Good morning Soapers! I have the same recipe for a few soaps with different fragrances, eo's and no fo or eo at all. They all behave diffferently so it is a real learning curve. But I have passed my safety assessment so all are ok to use. Just wondering why this particular one with lavender...

Hello soapers, made a rose and chamomile loaf yesterday. The mixture was nice and smooth at first but as the seconds ticked by it became a bit grainy looking as I poured it into the mould. What do you think went wrong here please? Smells great though! Attached a pic.

Hello happy soapers, I wonder if anyone would like to comment on fragrance percentages to use in cold process soap at all? I have downloaded the IFRA sheets for my fragrances and they vary from 0.8% to 100% which just sounds silly! How should I determine how much to use? These are fragrance...

Hiya, another soap issue...I have bought some white kaolin clay to use in my soaps but am unsure what type of soap will benefit from it. Would it be shaving soap, or soap for greasy skin, or any sort of skin? Having read on various pages on the internet I am still not sure...what kind of soap...

Hiya, just wondering - if I make a recipe using 6% superfat - then add coconut cream (250ml) which has an extra 50g of fat in it - what is the actual superfat percentage I am using please? This is for oils of 900g total. Does this make sense to anyone please?

Hello soap enthusiasts! Does this sound like a well rounded recipe please? I thought to add salt for extra hardness and salt for more bubbles? 40% OLIVE OIL 25% SHEA BUTTER 25% COCONUT OIL 10% CASTOR OIL 1 TSP SUGAR 1 TSP SALT How do you add salt and sugar? I tried to add them to the...

Hello, I am a newcomer here. I see this is a massive forum and will take time to find my way around! As a new soapmaker I am wondering if anyone can advise me on coconut oil soap please? If I do 90% coconut oil and 10% castor oil with superfat of 5% - is that enough to be moisturising and...