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Oh my goodness, I meant sodium hydroxide. I can be such a doofus at times! Sorry. Yes, it’s plain old lye that I am using but where I am, we only have it in pellet form.

Sodium hydrochloride or lye

Thanks Cherrycoke, 16% of the soap was crumbled raw, organic African blacksoap. I added this to Shea butter soap which I made with sodium hydrochloride. It’s very creamy (the scraps that I used to wash my hands were really nice). Will keep working on this recipe though. It was hard and...

Hi! I am so excited but made my first batch of hot process Shea butter, African black soap and coconut oil bar. I added olive oil last and lavender essential oil. It looks “homely”, but I am proud of these babies . They are about 78-82 grams each.

Hi Karen, Welcome to the group! Glad to have you here. I am new to the forum too, and like you, English is not my first language either. So don't worry! Unlike you, I have not made any soaps yet (still reading). Hope to see photos of your beautiful soaps!

Hi TeresaC, Welcome to the group. I am new here too, and am just beginning to read the basics of soap-making so you are way ahead! Best wishes and here's to more soap sales in future!

Welcome MissLunaB, I am new here as well, and have spent the past day and a half reading the wonderful stickies and posts, admiring the beautiful soap products the members here have made. Wishing you (and me) the best of success as we start our soaping journey :)

Thanks Earlene and Cmzaha, So glad to be here. Yes, Marula is quite hard to get outside southern africa. It has yet to be produced by co-operatives the way that shea butter is being produced in Ghana. It is said to have really good properties as it is high in antioxidants and according to...

Thank you Toxicon for the encouragement and amazing tips. Will definitely look up Soaping 101 videos, and put the Lye bottle against the wall on the counter top. I am a royal klutz so, seriously that bottle needs to stay away from me! LOL.. I will probably look the same to my neighbours too...

Thanks Jewels and Susie, I am excited but also worried. Yes, looking forward to my first bar of soap too! Hopefully will have a lot of nice bars to give away by end of the year :)

Thank you Shunt for the welcome. Yes, I am reading the "Basic Soap Making Handout" by Kathy Miller, and will definitely read handling lye carefully. I am excited, but also nervous about making my first batch of soap, so will spend this week (and maybe the next few weeks) reading the basics and...

Hi! My name is Ida and I am currently residing in Windhoek, Namibia. Having been here a year, I am developing an interest in soap-making based on the amazing produce that are available here. I am still at the reading stage but will be getting my hand on some Ghanaian Shea butter and marula...